The A.V. Club has already weighed in about how great Dinosaur Jr.’s new single, “Watch The Corners,” is, but the video—starring Tim Heidecker—is even better. In it, the Tim And Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! creator plays “Mad Dad,” a model airplane-building doting father to a hot, grocery-clerk daughter. The daughter falls for her co-worker, a bad-news skateboarder with a pixilated face. He inevitably breaks her heart, of course, and so “Mad Dad” comes to the rescue, giving the skater boy a piece of his mind in a spectacular grocery store freak-out.
“Watch The Corners” is off Dinosaur Jr.’s new album, I Bet On Sky, due out Sept. 18. The band is on tour this fall and dates are below.
Watch the Corners from Dinosaur Jr
Aug. 25—LouFest2012—St. Louis, Missouri
Sept. 2—FYF Fest—Los Angeles, California
Sept. 6—Belly Up Tavern—Solana Beach, California
Sept. 8—Roseland Theater—Portland, Oregon
Sept. 24-26—Lee’s Palace—Toronto, Ontario**
Sept. 27—St. Andrew’s Hall—Detroit, Michigan***
Sept. 28—MidPoint Music Festival—Cincinnati, Ohio***
Sept. 29—Pygmalion Festival—Champaign, Illinois***
Oct. 1—Mercy Lounge—Nashville, Tennessee*
Oct. 2—Variety Playhouse—Atlanta, Georgia*
Oct. 3—Tipitina’s—New Orleans, Louisiana*
Oct. 4—Mohawk—Austin, Texas*
Oct. 5—Fitzgerald’s—Houston, Texas*
Oct. 6—The Prophet Bar—Dallas, Texas*
Oct. 8—Orpheum Theater—Flagstaff, Arizona*
Oct. 9—The Observatory—Santa Ana, California*
Oct. 10—The Fillmore—San Francisco, California*
Oct. 11—WOW Hall—Eugene, Oregon*
Oct. 12—Neptune Theatre—Seattle, Washington*
Oct. 14—Urban Lounge—Salt Lake City, Utah*
Oct. 15—Bluebird Theater—Denver, Colorado*
Oct. 17—The Waiting Room—Omaha, Nebraska*
Oct. 18—Cabooze—Minneapolis, Minnesota*
Oct. 19—Majestic Theatre—Madison, Wisconsin*
Oct. 20—The Orbit Room—Grand Rapids, Michigan*
Oct. 22—The Bluebird—Bloomington, Indiana*
Oct. 23—Beachland Ballroom—Cleveland, Ohio*
Oct. 24—Mr. Smalls Theatre—Millvale, Pennsylvani*
Oct. 25—Black Cat—Washington, DC*
Oct. 26—Jefferson Theater—Charlottesville, Virginia*
Oct. 27—Union Transfer—Philadelphia, Pennsylvania*
* with Shearwater
** with The Besnard Lakes
*** with Purling Hiss