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J. Mascis (born Joseph Donald Mascis on December 10 1965) is an United States|American musician, perhaps best-known as the singer, guitarist and songwriter for Dinosaur Jr. He is also a founding member of and drummer for the band Witch (band)|Witch. He has produced records and composed film scores as well.

Biography
Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, the son of a dentist, Mascis formed the short-lived hardcore punk|hardcore group Deep Wound with Lou Barlow and Scott Helland in the early 1980s. He started out on drums,<ref>[http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/music_specials/s1402020.htm J FILES: Dinosaur Jr / J Mascis]</ref> but moved to guitar when he went on to found Dinosaur Jr. with bassist Barlow and drummer Emmett Jefferson 'Patrick' Murphy (aka 'Murph') in 1984 and achieved national success. His vocals have been described as "Neil Young-like"<ref>[http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:tzavqj1yojaa~T1 Biography]</ref> and his guitar riffs as "monolithic." After Mascis dismissed Barlow from Dinosaur Jr. in 1989, he recorded several more Dinosaur Jr. albums until 1997, including the 1996 steel-string acoustic guitar|acoustic solo album Martin & Me.

As a side-project, he was also the drummer in Boston, Massachusetts|Boston satanic hardcore punk group Upsidedown Cross, who released a self-titled album on Taa... read all