Five years of the Lost Sounds’ career is summed up by their album Lost Lost: Demos, Sounds, Alternate Takes & Unused Songs 1999-2004, which is scheduled to be released on July 17. Read on for a full track listing.
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Teenage Hate, Memphis garage punk rocker Jay Reatard’s 1998 debut album, is being reissued and it set to release May 17. Check out the full scoop after the jump. Read more…
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While 2010 has been a great year with new music being released, it has brought many tragedies as well. Many great musical figures, perhaps even an irregular figure, have passed away this past year, and we at MDWN feel a tribute is both necessary and appropriate to acknowledge their influence on music. Read more…
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The cause of death for Memphis musician Jay Reatard has been revealed through an autopsy. According to The Commercial Appeal, the autopsy showed that “cocaine toxicity and…alcohol [were] a contributing factor in his death.” Read more…
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For those of a certain age, the late ”80s and early ”90s were a weird limbo where the John Hughes film stereotypes within began to grow up and feel largely disjointed from the world at large. Artistic manifestations emanated out of the lassitude, the best examples being the music of Pavement and the film Slacker. Though two decades separate now from then, Jay Reatard’s Watch Me Fall seems imbued with that not-quite-ready-to-grow-up spirit without anxiety that’s packaged with it. Read more…
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There are 2 things that Jay Reatard loves: Touring and releasing music. Both he does with seemingly rapid-fire productivity. He’ll release his first album since Blood Visions on August 18 with the title Watch Me Fall. It’ll be his debut for Matador.
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