JayReatard Posts

Fight Videos: Top 10 Throwdowns in Music

While we would never encourage violence, we wholeheartedly support simulated punches and kicks set ... Read More »

Lou Reed 'Red Shirley' Documentary Added to NXNE Film Festival Schedule

As if deciding your schedules, bar-hopping excursions and ensuing hangover remedies wasn't enough for the musical portion of NXNE, now you have to squeeze in a Lou Reed documentary, too. ... Read More »

Jay Reatard Documentary to Debut Next Month in Memphis

A feature documentary on Jay Reatard will debut next month in Memphis. The documentary, 'Better Than Something: Jay Reatard' was filmed in April 2009, just months before the musical iconoclast died unexpectedly of a drug overdose at age 29. ... Read More »

Spoon's Britt Daniel Remembers Jay Reatard as 'Likable' and 'Crazed'

Spoon's Britt Daniel reminisces about the time he spent with late garage rocker Jay Reatard. ... Read More »

Jay Reatard Considered Ditching Stage Name, In the Red's Larry Hardy Says

"One of the things he talked about before he passed away was that he was probably gonna ditch the name Reatard and go under his own name," In the Red Records found Larry Hardy tells Spinner. ... Read More »

Matador's Chris Lombardi Was 'Dumbstruck' by Jay Reatard's Onstage Antics

Matador founder Chris Lombardi remembers Jay Reatard as a tremendously driven artist and businessman, who probably had more hit albums on both his mind and computer hard drive. Not surprisingly, there was a dark side to the young talent. ... Read More »

Crystal Antlers' Jonny Bell Praises Jay Reatard's 'Sincere' Garage Rock

Jonny Bell remembers exactly where he was on the day Jay Reatard died. By eerie coincidence, the Crystal Antlers frontman was in Memphis, Reatard's hometown, and spent the day at Graceland, a monument to another of the city's fallen rockers. ... Read More »