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Jay Reatard Documentary to Premiere at Nashville Film Festival

Jay Reatard Documentary to Premiere at Nashville Film Festival

The documentary about late garage-rock musician Jimmy Lee Lindsey, Jr. (better known as Jay Reatard), entitled Better than Something: Jay Reatard will premiere at this year’s Nashville Film Festival....  read more

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Austin L. Ray's Greatest Hits: The Paste Years, Volume 1

Austin L. Ray's Greatest Hits: The <em>Paste</em> Years, Volume 1

Or: Some Retrospective Navel Gazing From Which Probably Not Enough Has Been Removed So, this is my final List of the Day for Paste. This is also my final full-time week with the publication, and while I’m excited to be moving on to new things, it’s going to be weird not editing the majority of the content on this site, writing a list every week, poring over reader feedback, running meetings with interns and doing all the myriad things I’ve grown so accustomed to doing over the past five years....  read more

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Jay Reatard Documentary Premieres Next Month

Jay Reatard Documentary Premieres Next Month

Better Than Something will include previously unreleased footage from Reatard's live performances as well as home videos...  read more

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Myriad Posthumous Jay Reatard Releases Expected This Year

Myriad Posthumous Jay Reatard Releases Expected This Year

With the one-year anniversary of Jay Reatard’s death death comes a slew of posthumously-released materials associated with the garage rocker. According to Pitchfork, several releases are expected to see the light of day sometime in 2011, including a documentary, a greatest-hits compilation and various reissues from different projects the late musician was involved with....  read more

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Watch Jay Reatard's Final Interview

Watch Jay Reatard's Final Interview

Vice’s New Garage Explosion, Part 1 has surfaced, and it includes the late garage-rock firebrand Jay Reatard’s final interview....  read more

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Five Goner Records Gateway Bands

Five Goner Records Gateway Bands

It's the penultimate day of Gonerfest 2010, the seventh annual garage rock extravaganza in Memphis, Tennessee...  read more

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Watch the Arcade Fire Cover Jay Reatard's "Oh It's Such A Shame"

Watch the Arcade Fire Cover Jay Reatard's "Oh It's Such A Shame"

Arcade Fire’s new album, The Suburbs, drops today via Merge. The album is also streaming on NPR, and the anthemic rock collective has announced plans to stream its Aug. 5 show at Madison Garden live with a multi-camera endeavor directed by Terry Gilliam. Phew. Now, if by some strange chance you just haven’t got enough of these folks yet, there’s more: a cover of Jay Reatard....  read more

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Three Cheers for Duality: A Playlist

Three Cheers for Duality: A Playlist

Life is never really just black and white, but sometimes your day-to-day feels like it’s spent being buffeted between extremes. Case in point, SXSW this week—an exercise in maximum exhilaration tempered by maximum stress. Which is why the following playlist, in honor of polar opposites, has made for pretty great walking-around-Austin music....  read more

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Oh It's Such a Shame: 15 Songs by Which to Remember Jay Reatard

Oh It's Such a Shame: 15 Songs by Which to Remember Jay Reatard

We're left with his songs, and luckily, there are many...  read more

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Jay Reatard: 1980-2010

Jay Reatard: 1980-2010

The garage rocker died in his sleep last night...  read more

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