This last week we were privileged to be in attendance for a back-to-back southern Califronia Jay Reatard onslaught, kicking off at the Echoplex in Los Angeles, and then witnessing a kick-you-in-the-teeth-amazing performance at The Ken Club in San Diego. Free pool, cheap drinks, and a trails of tears-like winding bathroom line, the whole sh’bang. Started the night with a sneak-peek sound check and closed it out with Jay cannon-balling into the crowd. The band stampeded through a 16-song set with no filler, stopping only with Jay kicking an encroaching photographer off the stage. A definite highlight of the show was seeing Stephen(bass) booting a drunken stage-trespasser off the stage mid-song w/o missing a chord. The show was action-packed, I have the bruises to prove it. Read more of: Field Trip: Jay Reatard @ The Ken Club, San Diego CA. 1/24/09
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Jay Reatard’s first ever music video, for Matador Singles ‘08 standout “See/Saw”. Directed by SUPER! ALRIGHT!
Watch the video on Jay’s page at the Dell Lounge
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If you missed out getting your hands on these little 7″ beauties in their entirety, here is a rare opportunity to win all six PLUS a signed copy of the Beck’s Gamma Ray 7″ [...]
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Joining a better-known performer on stage to help sing one of their songs can be a risky move when you don’t know all the words. Just ask Art Brut’s Eddie Argos, who joined the Mountain Goats onstage during [...]
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Watch out UK (and Ireland), Jay Reatard is finally heading back to our shores for a string of dates stretching across this area of the world starting on Sunday.
16 Nov : Green Synergy Festival, [...]
Hey, free music from Matador Records is cool. So, get it. Their words: “… you get a track from one of each of our current and upcoming releases. Seven of the tracks have not been released on MP3 yet, and four of those are from albums that haven’t been released yet.”
What’s on it? This:
1. A.C. Newman There Are Maybe Ten Or Twelve (from Get Guilty, due out January 20)
2. Belle and Sebastian The State I Am In (BBC Version) (from The BBC Sessions, due out November 18)
3. Jennifer O’Connor Here With Me (from Here With Me, released August 19)
4. Shearwater The Snow Leopard (Remastered) from Rook, released June 3)
5. Lou Reed Caroline Says, Pt. II (Live) (from Berlin: Live At St. Ann’s Warehouse, due out November 4)
6. Mogwai The Sun Smells Too Loud (from The Hawk Is Howling, released September 23)
7. Fucked Up No Epiphany (from The Chemistry Of Common Life, released October 7)
8. Jay Reatard An Ugly Death (from Matador Singles ‘08, released October 7)
9. Jaguar Love Humans Evolve Into Skyscrapers (from Take Me To The Sea, released August 19)
10. Pavement Cataracts (from Brighten The Corners: Nicene Creedence Ed., due out December 9)
11. Brightblack Morning Light Oppressions Each (from Motion To Rejoin, released September 23)
12. Times New Viking Call & Respond (from the Stay Awake EP, released October 14)
13. Condo Fucks What’cha Gonna Do About It? (from Fuckbook, due out March 2009)
So… download it already.
The busiest man in rock n’ roll has posted some new material on his blog. Titled “Hitler Was a Meglamanic,” it begs the question… Could this be a revealing work of self-reflection? Or perhaps a tale of historical atrocity? You be the judge, either way I’m guessing it’ll sound fantastic served up with a shredding Flying V and a knuckle-sammich. With any luck, the song will appear on Jay’s forthcoming Matador full-length, due early next year.
Jay Reatard, a recent guest of Fay Buzzard and Jeremy Warmsley’s Welcome to our TV Show, rockin’ a living room:
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By: katie @ 8:00 pm on Jan 30, 2009
"I was at the Echoplex show and I'm jealous that you guys got to go to the SD show. It seems like Jay and company thrive at smaller venues. I've never witnessed such a debacle as the Doll Hut show in Anaheim. 3 songs in and the s went down. Awesome and disappointing at the same time. Hopefully they will keep touring before the next album comes out."