“I was mad about that”: J Mascis is jealous of his friends Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore for their Gilmore Girls cameo
Turns out Dinosaur Jr.’s lead singer and guitarist J Mascis has spent a lot of time in Stars Hollow, the small Connecticut town where Lorelai and Rory Gilmore lived out the ups and downs of mother/daughter life in Gilmore Girls.
On a recent episode of the Bandsplain podcast, Mascis and host Yasi Salek go into their shared fandom of the show. It first comes up when they discuss shirts for the Dinosaur Jr. album, Green Mind. Salek puts the figure for a vintage print at $3,000. This reminds Mascis of when that shirt was seen on Gilmore Girls.
“Somehow the shirt’s making me sad. It’s making me think of Gilmore Girls, which I love. There was an episode where the boyfriend wore that shirt, but it didn’t have the band name on it. It just had the girl bigger,” Mascis says. “I felt so ripped off.”
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Jess Mariano, played by Milo Ventimiglia, wore a shirt on the show that featured the cover of Green Mind. But the text was obscured by his jacket, so all the viewers could see was the legendary image of a young girl with a cigarette in her mouth.
They stayed on the topic for a bit longer as Salek mentioned Mascis’s good friends and fellow alt idols, Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, who made a cameo on the show. Salek believes Mascis should have been given a cameo as well, but he never was.
“I was mad about that, too,” Mascis says.
However, the producers must have known he was a big fan. When the show came to its conclusion in 2007 after 153 episodes, Mascis received a gift even though a Dinosaur Jr. song was never synced:
“I remember getting these Gilmore Girls sweatpants that they gave away to everyone on the last episode,” Mascis tells Salik, which he can only recall came into his possession because he loved the show.
Dinosaur Jr. released their 13th studio album, There Near, on 28 August, 2026, and have a number of tour dates planned in 2027. For a full list of dates, head to their official website.
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