This Thursday (March 18) in Austin, TX a fantastic collection of bands from near and far will be performing at Beerland in loving memory of Jimmy Lee Lindsey, Jr aka Jay Reatard
Thursday, March 18
1pm – 6pm
Beerland, Austin
21+, FREE
We are devastated by the death of Jimmy Lee Lindsey Jr., aka Jay Reatard. Jay was as full of life as anyone we’ve ever met, and responsible for so many memorable moments as a person and artist. We’re honored to have known and worked with him, and we will miss him terribly.
I was on a flight to NY this afternoon and when I landed there were about two dozen text messages about Jay Reatard’s passing. It is the height of understatement to say I’m upset, confused and deeply saddened by the loss of one of the more amazing people I’ve been fortunate to know. In record company parlance, yeah, we’ve lost (let’s go down the checklist) a phenomenal performer, songwriter, and insatiable music lover. But we’ve lost a great friend as well, and that’s the part that hurts the most.
We’re not the only ones feeling that way right now, obviously. Jay’s friends all over the country, heck, all over the world are dealing with this. I know his various scrapes over the years have made for cheap internet fodder, but the people who cared about him are gonna remember a real person that mattered to them. Our thoughts are with that very large group of people this evening.
Things got a little out of hand during a Criminal Records (ATL) instore earlier this week when dozens of shoppers were whipped into a frenzy by one of the more controversial, polarizing performers of our era. But enough about Wyclef Jean’s visit to Euclid Avenue, Jay Reatard’s performance yesterday was yet another public demonstration of genius-level songcraft. And there’s more to come along the tour route. (‘Watch Me Fall’ – available on LP, CD and digital files from The Matador Store)
As much as Jay enjoys hanging out in record stores, he apparently loves playing OUTSIDE of them even more.
Stop by Vinyl Richie’s Wiggly World at 2:30pm this Saturday for a very special out-store by Jay and his new band as they take over Richie’s parking lot for a free, all ages rock show.
Anyway, next Thursday December 3rd Jay Reatard and his brand-spankin-new band will stop in Criminal Records in Atlanta for a very awesome, very free, very all-ages instore… come kick it.
Thursday December 3 @ 4:30pm
Criminal Records
1154-A Euclid Ave.
Atlanta
404 215 9511
Starting Saturday, Jay Reatard is back in the States shredding clubs from Chicago to Dallas and everywhere in between (and East of the Rockies to be totally clear). And on a couple of key dates, Jay will be sharing the bill with The Pixies. For all of them though he’ll be sharing the stage with Anders Thode (bass) and Jacob Elving (drums) of Cola Freaks fame. The three of them just finished touring Europe together and if the video above (filmed by our very own Natalie Judge) is any indication, they’ve taken to one another quite well. Be sure you check them out for yourselves when they roll through a town near you. And if bringing in 2010 with Jay Reatard seems right up your alley (apparently it’s up Spoon’s) then make sure you’re in Milwaukee on Dec 31st.
Sat, 11/21 – Chicago IL – Aragon Ballroom (with THE PIXIES)
Sun, 11/22 – Columbus OH – The Summit
Mon, 11/23 – Pittsburgh PA – Brillobox
Tue, 11/24 – New York NY – Hammerstein Ballroom (with THE PIXIES)
Wed, 11/25 – Northampton MA – Pearl Street Nightclub
Fri, 11/27 – Boston MA – Wang Theatre (with THE PIXIES)
Sat, 11/28 – Philadelphia PA – Johnny Brendas
Mon, 11/30 – Wash DC – Constitution Hall (with THE PIXIES)
Tue, 12/1 – Chapel Hill NC – Local 506
Wed, 12/2 – Athens GA – 40 Watt Club
Thu, 12/3 – Atlanta GA – The Earl
Fri, 12/4 – Orlando FL – Backbooth
Sat, 12/5 – Tampa FL – Crowbar
Sun, 12/6 – Mobile AL – Alabama Music Box
Mon, 12/7 – New Orleans LA – One Eyed Jacks
Tue, 12/8 – Houston TX – Walters on Washington
Wed, 12/9 – Austin TX – Emo’s (Harlem supporting)
Thu, 12/10 – Dallas TX – Granada Theater
Thu, 12/31 – Milwaukee WI – The Riverside Theater (with SPOON)
Photo taken from marïe’s Flickr, used without permission
With the Cola Freaks guys now fully inaugurated in the band, the Jay Reatard tour bus rolls into London tonight. Only a few more UK dates left, so use your weekend wisely.
Fri Nov 13 London, Underworld
Sat Nov 14 Bristol, Croft
Sun Nov 15 Liverpool, Masque
Mon Nov 16 Dublin, Whelans
Finally, although the Jay Reatard live experience is a bit different these days, nothing can diminish the power of the old lineup. Their Pitchfork session wraps up today. Watch “Hammer I Miss You” below, or click here for the full session.
Today sees the launch of Jay Reatard’s scorching four-track/VHS session at Pitchfork.
Stephen and Billy’s last stand, we’re happy to have this one for posterity, but here in the UK we’re also looking forward to checking out the NEW BAND (!!) this week. Find tour dates below the video, and buy Watch Me Fall here.
Tour Dates:
Nov 09 Brussels, BE -Botanique Rotonde
Nov 10 Antwerpen, BE – Bar Mondial
Nov 11 Glasgow, UK – King Tuts
Nov 12 Manchester, UK – Roadhouse
Nov 13 London, UK – Underworld
Nov 14 Bristol, UK – Croft
Nov 15 Liverpool, UK – Masque
Nov 16 Dublin, IE - Whelans
Nov 21 Chicago, IL – Aragon Ballroom w/Pixies
Nov 22 Columbus, OH – The Summit w/Black Hollies
Nov 23 Pittsburgh, PA – Brillobox
Nov 24 New York, NY – Hammerstein Ballroom w/Pixies
Nov 25 Northhampton, MA – Iron Horse
Nov 27 Boston, MA – Wang Theatre w/Pixies
Nov 28 Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brendas
Nov 30 Washington, DC – Constitution Hall w/Pixies
Dec 01 Chapel HillC, NC – Local 506
Dec 02 Athens, GA – 40 Watt Club
Dec 03 Atlanta, GA – The Earl
Dec 04 Orlando, FL – Backbooth
Dec 05 Tampa, FL – Crowbar
Dec 07 New Orleans, LA – One Eyed Jacks
Dec 08 Houston, TX – Walters on Washington
Dec 09 Austin, TX – Emo’s
Dec 10 Dallas, TX – Granada Theater
Dec 31 Milwaukee, WI – Riverside Theater
Our own Jay Reatard graces the cover of the latest issue of Death & Taxes. The issue itself is actually interactive, no jk. Check out what I mean here and look for the magazine on stands – it’s worth the price of admission for the pictures alone. Buy Watch Me Fallhere.
Jay Reatard and his new band are starting their European tour tonight in France, all the dates can be found below. As previously billed, he’s playing with the Cola Freaks as his new band and by all accounts they’re raring to go as this statement from Mr Reatard attests…
“Life has been great since I’ve been here in Aarhus (Denmark) the last ten days. Working on music all day, walking a half hour to the rehearsal studio, playing with the Cola Freaks all night. With the last band it was all overplaying – turn it up, play it fast – but the songs got lost in all the distortion. This new band makes the songs in a way sound more pure by scaling back and putting more emphasis on the melody and the changes. It sounds exactly the I wanted these songs to sound like live when I wrote them.
We added a lot of new songs to the live set. There’s already been a secret show in Aarhus before we start a 12 country European tour before coming right back for those Pixies shows. Can’t wait for those.
I also recorded a cover of Chris Knox’s first band The Enemy – a version of “Pull Back The Shades” for a Chris Knox tribute album. I did it right in the bathroom of my hotel room here – put the computer on the sink, recorded the guitar and vocals sitting right on the toilet!”
L-R Jacob Elving (drums), Jay Lindsey (Flying V), Anders Thode (bass)
Followers of Twitter and some of the more popular rock blogs probably read recently that bassist Stephen Pope and drummer Billy Hayes had left Jay Reatard’s touring band ; while said move required the cancellation of some dates on the West Coast, we’re happy to announce Jay will be back on the road shortly, hitting Europe next week and the U.S. in late November, with the newly ensconced rhythm section of Anders Thode (bass) and Jacob Elving (drums), both from Danish punk titans the Cola Freaks, along for the ride.
You’ll note from the dates below that Jay is opening for The Pixies in Chicago, New York, Boston and Washington D.C. There’s also a New Year’s Eve date supporting Spoon in Miwaukee.
Wed Oct 28 Paris,Maroquinerie
Fri Oct 30 Munich, 59 to 1
Sat Oct 31 Berlin, Lido
Sun Nov 1 Copenhagen, Loppen
Mon Nov 2 Oslo, Parkteatret
Tue Nov 3 Malmo, Mejeriet
Thu Nov 5 Prague, Matrix
Fri Nov 6 Vienna, B72
Sat Nov 7 Bologna, Covo
Sun Nov 8 Clermont Ferrand, Coop de Mai
Mon Nov 9 Brussels, Botanique Rotonde
Tue Nov 10 Birmingham, Bar Academy
Wed Nov 11 Glasgow, King Tuts
Thu Nov 12 Manchester, Roadhouse
Fri Nov 13 London, Underworld
Sat Nov 14 Bristol, Croft
Sun Nov 15 Liverpool, Masque
Mon Nov 16 Dublin, Whelans
Sat Nov 21 Chicago Aragon (with The Pixies)
Sun Nov 22 Columbus The Summit
Mon Nov 23 Pittsburgh Brillobox
Tue Nov 24 New York Hammerstein Ballroom (with The Pixies)
Wed Nov 25 Northampton Iron Horse
Fri Nov 27 Boston Wang Center (with The Pixies)
Sat Nov 28 Philadelphia Johnny Brenda’s
Mon Nov 30 Wash DC Constitution Hall (with The Pixies)
Tue Dec 1 Chapel Hill Local 506
Wed Dec 2 Athens 40 Watt Club
Thur Dec 3 Atlanta The Earl
Fri Dec 4 Orlando Backbooth
Sat Dec 5 Tampa Crowbar
Mon Dec 7 New Orleans One Eyed Jacks
Tue Dec 8 Houston Walters on Washington
Wed Dec 9 Austin Emo’s (Outside)
Thu Dec 10 Dallas Granada Theater
Sat Dec 31 Milwaukee Riverside Theatre (with Spoon)
Jay Reatard’s US touring in support of the new LP/CD/digital album ‘Watch Me Fall’ continues with the Jay-curated Shattered Records tour. Dates are listed below, but feel free to embed the widget below on your blog, website, MySpace profile, etc.
Mon Sep 28 – Chicago – Empty Bottle with Nobunny, Hunx & His Punx, Box Elders, Useless Eaters Tue Sep 29 – Toronto – The Reverb with Nobunny, Hunx & His Punx, Box Elders, Useless Eaters Wed Sep 30 – Montreal – La Sala Rossa with Nobunny, Hunx & His Punx, Box Elders, Useless Eaters Thu Oct 1 – New York City – Le Poisson Rouge with Nobunny, Hunx & His Punx, Box Elders, Useless Eaters Fri Oct 2 – Boston – Harper’s Ferry with Nobunny, Hunx & His Punx, Box Elders, Useless Eaters Sat Oct 3 – Baltimore – Ottobar with Nobunny, Hunx & His Punx, Box Elders, Useless Eaters Thu Oct 15 – Seattle – Crocodile Cafe with Box Elders and special guests Mon Oct 19 – San Francisco – Great American Music Hall with Nobunny, Hunx & His Punx, Box Elders, Digital Leather Tue Oct 20 – San Diego – The Casbah with Nobunny, Hunx & His Punx, Box Elders, Digital Leather Wed Oct 21 – Los Angeles – El Rey Theater with Nobunny, Hunx & His Punx, Box Elders, Digital Leather
If you’re looking for a weekend fest roughly three weeks after Goner 6 and a week before Budget Rock 8, you could do worse than the above event. It could the greatest car-company sponsored event of all-time (though admittedly, I would struggle to name the 2nd and 3rd place finishers).
After a day off, Jay Reatard’s FREE, all ages, West Coast, Record Shop Tour (try saying that 5 times fast) is back in action tonight. If you’re in Portland, OR we highly recommend you swing by Jackpot Record’s downtown store at 6pm. Everything we’re hearing from fans, record store owners and Jay himself is that these in-stores have been really fun, really loud, and really crowded. And well why shouldn’t they be. Jay’s got a terrific new album to celebrate and is one of the best performers around these days.
And a reminder for all of you in the Northwest, Jay invades a city/record store near you this week. You’ve been warned!
Jay’s amazing new video is currently embroiled in a Battle Royale with MTVU rotation at stake. I would make a joke about the bands Jay is up against, but I’ve never heard of any of them.
Please visit “The Freshmen” site and vote for Jay. Over and over again. It’s quick and easy. With your help Jay can infiltrate the hearts and minds and heads of college students everywhere.
Greetings from the Big White Van (whom the rental company named ‘Beth’),
So we’re officially halfway into the instore tour. 5 down, 5 to go. SoCal is in the bag and we’ve made our way north where it feels like it’s friggin October. Nobody told us it was going to be 55 degrees in August. We’re cold. A shopping day is very much in order. Anything with sleeves is tops on the menu. We’ve switched from three Mexican meals a day to three Thai meals a day. Sonic Youth, Faust, Adam Franklin, Eric’s Trip and Naked Raygun have dominated the stereo. We haven’t played the Bass Fishing video game the the rental company gave to us. A fuse blew on Jay’s amp. Twice. We got free t shirts. We got lost. The Big White Van’s battery died. And that millionaire guy killed his model girlfriend.
Are you sorry you missed one or more of the free, all-ages shows Jay’s been destroying? Well you should be. Cause they’ve been awesome. Amoeba Hollywood, Fingerprints, M-Theory, Streetlight and Amoeba SF were all packed to the gills with fans who certainly walked away satisfied. And Amoeba Berkeley, Jackpot, Easy St., Sonic Boom and Zulu should prove no different.
So if you see the Big White Van flowing through your town, be sure to follow it to the next stop for some ear-bending rock.
Absolutely killer 7″ double A-side single, both tracks not on the upcoming The Sound The Speed The Light (Oct 6), so grab this now.
If you’re in Boston, check out the Album Listening Event at the Institute Of Contemporary Art on Thursday, August 27, 6-8:30 PM. 100 Northern Avenue, Boston MA 02210 www.icaboston.org.
There are two upcoming shows – and keep your eyes peeled for Fall touring plus more dates in the New Year:
Sat, Sep 5 – Cleveland OH – Case Western Reserve (Mather Memorial Bldg)
Sun, Sep 6 – Pittsburgh PA – Club Cafe
The long-awaited second proper album from the Memphis songwriting genius fully lives up to expectations with twelve achingly perfect songs – “handmade,” as Jay said in the New York Times this weekend.
Jay starts a 10-city, free all-ages tour of record stores up the West Coast, starting at Amoeba Hollywood tonight at 6 PM. That’s 6400 W. Sunset Blvd. at Ivar, Los Angeles CA 90028, www.amoeba.com.
Here are the rest of the shows – don’t miss them, Jay always gives his ALL:
Tue, Aug 18 – Los Angeles CA Amoeba Hollywood – 6 PM in-store performance
Wed, Aug 19 – Long Beach CA – Fingerprints – 7 PM in-store performance
Thu, Aug 20 – San Diego CA – M-Theory – 7 PM acoustic in-store performance
Fri, Aug 21 – Santa Cruz CA – Streetlight – 7 PM in-store performance
Sat, Aug 22 – San Francisco CA – Amoeba SF – 6 PM in-store performance
Sun, Aug 23 – Berkeley CA – Amoeba Berkeley – 6 PM in-store performance
Tue, Aug 25 – Portland OR – Jackpot Records – 6 PM in-store performance
Wed, Aug 26 – Seattle WA – Easy Street – 7 PM in-store performance
Thu, Aug 27 – Seattle WA – Sonic Boom – 7 PM in-store performance
Fri, Aug 28 – Vancouver BC – Zulu Records – 8 PM in-store performance
Seattle’s Cave Singers also release their second album, the deliciously autumnal Welcome Joy, today. They are also making 3 free, all-ages live appearances at stores this week, and their live performance is not to be missed, so if you’re in the Pacific Northwest, get to these shows:
Tue, Aug 18 – Easy Street Records – Seattle WA – 7 PM
Wed, Aug 19 – Music Millennium – Portland OR – 6 PM
Fri, Aug 21 – Everyday Music – Bellingham WA – 6 PM
Finally, don’t forget our next release date, Tuesday, September 8, when Yo La Tengo’s masterpiece Popular Songs comes out:
Click here to preorder the regular digital album on iTunes with one bonus track.
And click here to preorder either the regular album (in any format) from the Matador Store, or to take advantage of Buy Early Get Now and get it immediately with a bonus vinyl LP and other extras.
Thanks to blogs.nashvillescene.com for the picture
Don’t forget, kids, tomorrow marks the first show of Jay Reatard’s highly anticipated West Coast Instore Tour.
So if you find yourself bogged down by summer in one of these little not-so-out-of-the-way hamlets up and down the West Coast, be sure to come out, check a FREE ALL AGES instore and pick up Jay’s newest record Watch Me Fall.
August:
18th – 6pm @ Amoeba Music Hollywood (LA)
19th – 7pm @ Fingerprints (Long Beach)
20th – 7pm @ M-Theory (San Diego)
21st – 7pm @ Streetlight Records (Santa Cruz)
22nd – 6pm @ Amoeba Music San Francisco (duh)
23rd – 6pm @ Amoeba Music Berkeley (again…)
25th – 6pm @ Jackpot Records (Portland)
26th – 7pm @ Easy Street Records (Seattle)
27th – 7pm @ Sonic Boom Records (Seattle)
28th – 8pm @ Zulu Records (Vancouver)
And if free all ages instores don’t whet your palette, maybe this will………………..
So what has already shaped up as the Summer of Jay Reatard (a documentary, a new album, and a free + all ages in-store tour to name a few major things) is quickly becoming the Autumn of Reatard as well. Perhaps we should simply declare 2009, the year of Jay Reatard?
What can’t be debated is that Jay has put together an allstar line-up to celebrate his own label, Shattered Records. This fall Jay and his friends take to the road for a run of memoriable shows, packed full of unique and terrific bands, headlined each night by Jay himself.
For more about this tour continue to check JayReatard.com for details.
Today Jay Reatard made available for your viewing pleasure the official video for “It Ain’t Gonna Save Me”, the lead single from the upcoming “Watch Me Fall”.
The video was directed by Bryce Kass and produced by Daft Arts
