Dinosaur Jr. Return With New Album and Fall Tour Dates

There Near is their first LP in five years

June 30, 2026

J Mascis, Murph, and Lou Barlow have announced a new Dinosaur Jr. album called There Near, the follow-up to 2021’s Sweep Into Space. It’s coming August 28 on Jagjaguwar, a month before the boys kick off the second half of their 2026 tour with Detroit indie rocker Stef Chura. You can check out the full list of stops below, along with “Several Got Away,” the lead single from the new album.

“I'm not always sure what a song is 'about' when I'm writing it,” Mascis said in a statement accompanying the announcement. “I guess the meaning will present itself at some point. I'll use whatever words work. And a lot of it will be influenced by whatever esoteric mumbo jumbo I'm reading at the time. I try not to think too hard about any of it. I think it's a drag that Spotify shows all the lyrics to a song. What's the fun of that?”

Earlier this year, J Mascis and Mike Watt swapped cover songs for a new split 7”.

There Near

01 Several Got Away

02 No Friends

03 Everything At Once

04 Take Me With You

05 Blowin’ Up

06 Gone Off

07 Clam Along

08Walk Me Back

09 Read The Room

10 Put It Down

11 No One’s Ready

Dinosaur Jr. Tour

07-10 Kingston, NY @ Ulster Performing Arts Center +

07-11 New Haven, CT @ College Street Music Hall +

07-12 Hammondsport, NY @ Point of the Bluff Vineyards +

07-14 Richmond, VA @ Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden +

07-16 Wilmington, NC @ Greenfield Lake Amphitheater +

07-17 Asheville, NC @ Hellbender by The Orange Peel +

07-18 Atlanta, GA @ The Eastern +

07-20 Knoxville, TN @ Tennessee Theatre +

07-21 Birmingham, AL @ Avondale Brewing Company +

07-22 Louisville, KY @ Iroquois Amphitheater +

07-24 Lansing, MI @ Grewal Hall

07-25 Fishers, IN @ Nickel Plate District Amphitheater +

07-26 Columbus, OH @ KEMBA Live! +

07-28 St. Louis, MO @ The Factory +

07-30 Davenport, IA @ Capitol Theatre +

07-31 West Des Moines, IA @ Val Air Ballroom +

08-01 Omaha, NE @ Astro Theater +

10-09 Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl*

10-10 Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theatre*

10-11 Solana Beach, CA @ Belly Up*

10-15 Anaheim, CA @ House of Blues*

10-16 Los Angeles, CA @ The Bellwether*

10-18 San Francisco, CA @ The Castro Theatre*

10-20 Sacramento, CA @ Ace of Spades*

10-22 Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall*

10-23 Seattle, WA @ Neptune*

10-24 Seattle, WA @ Neptune*

10-26 Salt Lake City, UT @ Complex*

10-29 Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre*

10-30 Fort Collins, CO @ Washington's*

11-02 Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater*

11-04 Houston, TX @ House of Blues*

11-05 Austin, TX @ Stubb's*

11-06 San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger*

11-07 New Orleans, LA @ Tipitina's*

+ co-headline with Band of Horses

* w/ special guest Stef Chura

Alex Suskind has overseen music coverage at New York magazine’s Vulture and, before that, Entertainment Weekly (where he also co-founded the publication’s union). He has written about TV, film, technology, politics, and tons of other stuff for The Guardian, Vanity Fair, Vice, and The Fader. ... Read More