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
Found in: Movies, NewsAustin L. Ray's Greatest Hits: The Paste 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
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayJay 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
Found in: Music, NewsMyriad 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
Found in: Music, NewsWatch 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
Found in: Music, NewsFive Goner Records Gateway Bands
It's the penultimate day of Gonerfest 2010, the seventh annual garage rock extravaganza in Memphis, Tennessee... read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayWatch 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
Found in: Music, NewsThree 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
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayOh 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
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayJay Reatard: 1980-2010
The garage rocker died in his sleep last night... read more
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