The Strungs Kings Of Kerhonkson Tinhorn Planet Music [2011] Fire Note Says: Looking for some solid indie rock - look no further than The Strungs! Album Review: I am not sure why our friends over at Tinhorn Planet waited so long to send us this later 2011 debut full length from The Strungs but all is forgiven after just one spin from this Replacements meets Jay Reatard record as it is a 32 minute fun rocking lo-fi experience. The group features a part-time member of  The Gifted Children and hits you with a concise 18 tracks which always gets right to ...

Tennessee glam-snots (and Jay Reatard faves) outgrow their ilk, unload a thorny, at times mesmeric mess.

Optimistically touted the 'first major festival of the summer', with the Saturday of this year's Camden Crawl quite factually cooler than Christmas the notorious bank holiday blowout gets off to a somewhat slow and strangely tepid start. Three Trapped Tigers bemuse with virtuoso, if exquisitely accomplished aspirational unpleasantness that's ultimately as insipid as an infinity wired into Xfm, whilst Samuel Manville's Hymns breed a reedy unholiness in the grim depths of The Underworld. Its newly snazzed exterior belies its inner filth, just as Manville et al. negate any originality through the assimilation of the loud/quiet dynamics ...

Requested by The80sActuallySucked • Compiled by Jewther 01. Titus Andronicus - “Fear and Loathing in Mahwah, NJ” (The Airing of Grievances) 02. Jay Reatard - “Nightmares” (Blood Visions) 03. The Mountain Goats - “Going to Georgia” (Zopilote Machine) 04. The Almighty Defenders - “Bow Down and Die” (The Almighty Defenders) 05. Big Black - “Kerosene” (Atomizer) 06. Captain Chaos - “The Best Note Ever” (May All Liars Burn In Hell) 07. The Clash - “London’s Burning” (The Clash) 08. Ox">Foot Ox - “About The Ocean” (It’s Like Our Little Machine)

Belgian radio station Studio Brussel (StuBru) will release a new vinyl compilation  for Record Store Day featuring a host of artists who've performed in their headquarters, as  Disco Naïveté  points out. It features live recordings of the xx covering Womack & Womack's "Teardrops", tUnE-yArDs playing "Bizness" and Jay Reatard doing "Fading All Away" before he died, among others. After the tracklist, watch the xx's performance.

This lost child of Andy Warhol’s Factory pours his heart and soul into it. "Say Goodbye Before You Leave" is about lost talent Jay Reatard. "When You're Gone" is about his gone poppa. "Hairdresser Blues" is about having to give yourself all day long to clients who want to talk your face off about their lives, when your life might be in shambles as well. Taking a bold step forward with your music is always a difficult thing to do, like rolling the dice when you know there are people hiding in the rafters waiting to watch you ...

Hunx Hairdresser Blues [Hardly Art; 2012] by Rowan Savage Rating: Seth Bogart: saying what I’m about to say is going to hurt me more than it hurts you. For those who’ve hip-swung to Hunx and His Punx’ (presumably) Pacino-inspired “Cruising,” this might not seem like a bad thing. But I’m afraid it is. Having thus wrecked all my chances of ever bedding Bogart on an Antipodean tour (I think I may have also freaked out personal idol Lydia Loveless by telling her on Facebook that I’d cream my jeans if she came to Australia — but not ...

When filmmakers Alexandria Hammond and Ian Markiewicz, directors of the recent Better Than Something , first met its subject, Memphis punk rock musician Jay Reatard, they weren't sure what to expect, given his name and his notoriety for transgressive, even violent stage antics. Brought in by Matador Records to make a short promotional film for the impending release of Reatard's album Watch Me Fall , the pair of documentary veterans — Hammond had helmed a feature doc on homeless children in Haiti, while Markiewicz had worked with legendary filmmaker Albert Maysles, including editing The Beales of Grey Gardens — weren't very ...

On Thursday in Columbus, the Wexner Center will screen the new documentary Better Than Something: Jay Reatard, a film about prolific Memphis punk-rocker Jimmy Lee Lindsey Jr. aka Jay Reatard, who died in 2010 at the age of 29. What … Continue reading →

For those who didn't win--never fear! Tickets are affordable and still available. Come check out Better than Something: Jay Reatard tonight with L.A. RECORD hosting!

The documentary is currently on a screening tour of North America

To enter our contest see the movie and Q&A; absolutely free, simply leave the name of your favorite Jay Reatard song in the comments below--our crack team of judges will pick one selection at random and issue that person two free passes. We will be judging on style and poise, so descriptions of your favorite song, links, videos, etc, will definitely help your case!

Hunx Hairdresser Blues Hardly Art Records [2012] Fire Note Says: Hunx leaves the Punx out on this record but still brings all the excitement found on his previous efforts! Album Review: Hairdresser Blues represents the first record just featuring Seth Bogart, aka Hunx, without his Punx. It showcases Hunx playing all the instruments here minus the drums played by Daniel Pitout ( Nü Sensae) as the record lyrically is Hunx's most personal album to date. The album tackles all kinds of subjects like love, hairspray, rollers and loss as most tracks were written late at night by himself in his ...

Directors Alex Hammond and Ian Markiewicz originally intended to create a short film when they followed Memphis punk rocker Jay Reatard (born Jimmy Lee Lindsey Jr) around his hometown in the spring of 2009 But when Lindsey unexpectedly overdosed less than a year later the filmmakers fleshed out their work...

With candid interviews and raw performance footage, “Better Than Something” traces the volatile, short life of the garage rocker known as Jay Reatard.