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J Mascis & The Fog
Band Amherst United States Formed 2000
J Mascis & The Fog formed in 2000 in Amherst, United States. J Mascis & The Fog has 2 chart appearances on 2 radio countdowns from 1 station on RockLists, spanning 2008–2009. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Where'd You Go”, which appears on 2 lists with a best position of #1986. The station that charted J Mascis & The Fog most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 2 appearances.
J Mascis + The Fog was what J Mascis did next after Dinosaur Jr broke up. Once his contracts with Blanco y Negro in the UK and Sire/Reprise in the US were out of the way, he holed up in his home studio in Amherst, Massachusetts, and played most of the instruments himself. The result was More Light, released in 2000 on Artemis Records, its title drawn from his growing interest in Ammachi, the "hugging saint", who is also the subject of "Ammaring".
It's a woozy, sun-warped record, guitars rolling in like weather and Mascis's voice floating half-asleep over the top, and "Where'd You Go" catches that slow-motion ache as well as anything on it.
To take the songs out on the road he called in old friends: former Dinosaur Jr drummer George Berz and Mike Watt, the bassist from the Minutemen and Firehose. Mascis and Watt went back a long way; he had produced Firehose's final album, Mr. Machinery Operator, in 1993, and played guitar and drums on Watt's first solo record, Ball-Hog or Tugboat?. The Fog made one more album, Free So Free, in 2002.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by J Mascis & The Fog on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where'd You Go | 2 | #1986 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 1995 | Where'd You Go | CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) |
| 2008 | 1986 | Where'd You Go | CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) |
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