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Jimmy Lee Lindsey Jr. (May 1, 1980 – January 13, 2010), better known by the stage name Jay Reatard, was an American punk rock musician from Memphis, Tennessee. Lindsey was signed to Matador Records. He released recordings as a solo artist and as a member of The Reatards and Lost Sounds.

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Guest top 10s: Does It Offend You Yeah?, Bonus Eventus and Let's Wrestle
DOES IT OFFEND YOU, YEAH? Dan from Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Bonus Eventus and Let’s Wrestle give us their picks of 2009 as we near completion of our Guest top 10s. <!--break--> TING TINGS Pure pop from two of the nicest people I’ve ever met in the music business, We toured with them in 2008 and watched them blow up and go on to world wide success, I’m...
No Age and Jay Reatard Live Photos
No Age and Jay Reatard Wednesday, February 4, 2009 The Kings Arms, Auckland I’ve been singing Jay Reatard all day. Easily one of my favourite sets of all time, Jay Reatard catapulted through a lightning speed set of songs mixed from his back catalog, although unfortunately seemed to pay less attention to my personal favourite, Blood Visions. Like the other crazy sweaty messes up the...
Top 100 Records of 2009: 60-41
Fever Ray Our top records of 2009 countdown continues, with our favourite singles, albums and downloads of the year. We’re now at numbers 60-41. <!--break--> 60: Crystal Stilts: Love is a wave Excellent single on Slumberland, a reverb drenched indie Scott Walker fronting Echo & The Bunnymen at their most optimistic. Download love is a wave Check out Crystal Stilts on...
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Jay Reatard - Ain't gonna save me
Jay Reatard - "It Ain’t Gonna Save Me" <!--break--> Spotted this marvellous new Jay Reatard video on the Warlus’s blog. Great new tune and excellent clip, once the song gets going (about 1 minute in). Jay’s new album is out on Matador in the middle of August.
New Music From Deerhunter - "Oh, It's Such a Shame" (Jay Reatard Cover)
What?s better than Deerhunter?s newest album, Microcastle? Oh, I don?t know, maybe Deerhunter covering Jay Reatard?s ?Oh, It?s Such a Shame? from his last album Blood Visions? Yes! As we mentioned previously, the two have teamed up to cover each other’s songs on Jay’s latest Matador 7". The Deerhunter version does the brooding original Justice, with some added, even darker...
Record Store Day 2009 Roundup
Despite news to the contrary, there are still record stores in America. Chains, less and less but, at least in New York, the good ones are still going. April 18 was the third annual Record Store Day, a "celebration of the unique culture surrounding over 700 independently owned record stores in the USA, and hundreds of similar stores internationally." Or, an excuse to get people to go...
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Track Reviews: Jay Reatard, Imogen Heap, Windmill
MP3 Jay Reatard - Can’t Do It Anymore Jay Reatard might have an eery resemblance to Meatloaf on the Watch Me Fall album cover, but you won’t find him making 12 minute rock operas with ambiguous meanings any time soon. Jay plays straightforward, garage pop-punk songs at a breakneck speed and the songs rarely go over two minutes. “Can’t Do It Anymore...
Singles for the week beginning June 23!
Band name: Wetdog, Jay Reatard, Tokyo Police Club and more Label: various indie schmindies Teaser: We swear it’s a coincidence that the band behind this week’s SOTW is also shortly due to play Artrocker Brighton! Emily Kendrick denies the bribery - as she takes us through this week’s 45’s… Pull quote 2: The Dirty pretties will be doing...
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    Legendary rock photographer Steve Gullick has a retrospective at Manchester’s KRAAK Gallery running from March 12th til March 27th, featuring shots taken for NME and Melody Maker as well as his...

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