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It wasn't enough for Dinosaur Jr. to stage one of the finest indie rock resuscitation of all time; they had to go and make it stick.

The prehistoric prog-poppers, who've gotta be feeling good about their immensely satisfying, freshly-issued record Beyond, have added a whole lot of dates to the back end of their tour. What's more, Lou Barlow himself will pull double-duty as he opens a handful of the band's U.S. dates by his lonesome.

In other Dinosaur Jr. news, the guys are involved in few new DVD projects: one being a compilation of performances from the Netherlands' Vera Club, and the other a live set captured at a number of locales on their 2005 tour. The Vera Club DVD's is out now in limited Euro-only edition; Live in the Middle East, as the latter's called, is out May 29 from Image Entertainment. And Barlow backers will be glad to know there's a 52- track reissue of Sebadoh's debut out July 10 from Domino, too.

And don't forget that on June 11, Dinosaur Jr. will perform an 8:00 pm free show at the Urban Outfitters in  Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as part of Free Yr Radio. Remember, that Yaris thing that benefits local community radio stations? This show benefits WERS.

Man, if real dinosaurs moved this fast, we'd all be dead.

Dino-mite!:

05-16 San Francisco, CA - Slim's *
05-17 Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom *
05-18 Seattle, WA - The Showbox *
05-19 Olympia, WA - Capitol Theatre *#
05-20 Bellingham, WA - The Nightlight *
05-22 Victoria, British Columbia - Sugar Nightclub *%
05-23 Vancouver, British Columbia - Commodore Ballroom *%
05-25 Calgary, Alberta - MacEwan Hall *#
05-26 Edmonton, Alberta - Starlite Room *#
05-27 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan - Odeon Events Centre *#
05-28 Winnipeg, Manitoba - Garrick Centre *#
05-29 Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock *
05-30 Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock *
05-31 Chicago, IL - The Abbey Pub *
06-01 Chicago, IL - The Abbey Pub *
06-02 Chicago, IL - The Abbey Pub *#
06-03 Ann Arbor, MI - The Blind Pig *
06-04 Ann Arbor, MI - The Blind Pig *
06-06 New York, NY - Irving Plaza *
06-07 New York, NY - Irving Plaza *
06-08 Toronto, Ontario - Phoenix Concert Theatre *%
06-09 Montreal, Quebec - Club Soda *
06-10 Burlington, VT - Higher Ground #
06-11 Cambridge, MA - Harvard Square Urban Outfitters (Free Yr Radio)
06-15 Fort Collins, CO - Aggie Theater
06-16 Denver, CO - Westworld Music Showcase
06-17 Aspen, CO - Belly Up
06-26 London, England - Scala
06-27 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso
06-28 Friborg, Switzerland - Fri-Son
06-29 Munich, Germany - Olympic Stadium ^
06-30 Berlin, Germany - Postbanhof
07-01 Hamburg, Germany - AOL Arena ^
07-05 Byron Bay, Australia - Hotel Great Northern
07-06 Brisbane, Australia - The Tivoli
07-07 Sydney, Australia - Metro
07-08 Sydney, Australia - Metro
07-09 Auckland, New Zealand - The Studio
07-11 Canberra, Australia - University of Canberra Union
07-12 Melbourne, Australia - The Forum
07-13 Adelaide, Australia - The Gov
07-14 Perth, Australia - The Capitol
07-20 Valencia, Spain - Ibecassim Festival
07-27 Storas, Norway - Storasfestivalen
07-28 Emmaboda, Sweden - Emmaboda Festival
08-11 Tokyo, Japan - Summersonic Festival
08-12 Osaka, Japan - Summersonic Festival
08-25 Reading, England - Reading Festival
08-26 Leeds, England - Leeds Festival

* with Awesome Color
# with Lou Barlow
% with Uncut
^ with Red Hot Chili Peppers