If you didn't catch Jay Reatard's lightning-quick garage punk set over the summer, then 2009 is looking good for you. The Memphis-bred rocker plans to release his first studio album under indie staple Matador Records early next year, and is scheduled to deliver furious guitar riffs at the Independent Jan. 25. Tickets go on sale Sunday, Dec. 7 at 10 a.m. --Oscar Pascual
Nobunny (w/ Jay Reatard, Bare Wires)Sunday, Jan. 25, 2009Photos by Scott CarisBetter than: A drunken Thumper.Just three songs into his set, Nobunny's guitarist had broken a string. His bassist had broken his instrument--stopping the show to borrow another band's bass. And this was after the Oakland-based group had driven 12 hours to get to the Independent from previous night's gig in Oregon ("I know, it only takes 10 hours to get here from Portland," Nobunny told the crowd from behind his ratty
Two new good lookin' new videos posted this week:
Jay Reatard crashes a kid's birthday party, where water balloons and other weapons explode upon the suburbs. Check out "It Ain't Gonna Save Me."
And then much tamer rituals are observed in the slick new clip from YACHT, who performed in San Francisco last week. Here's their latest single, "Psychic City (Voodoo City)."
Jay Reatard is 2009's White Stripes: the kid from the garage rock world who has been selected by the mainstream press to receive tons of (well-earned) cred. It's been almost 10 years since the big dailies have paid attention to the raw underground, so I guess the buzz cycle is coming around right on time.Reatard is making the news now because he has a new batch of scuzzed up pop coming out this Tuesday, a record called Watch Me Fall. I still love Blood Visions the best, but Fall becomes more
Photo by Shauna Regan www.shaunaregan.comAlland Byallo (see Sunday)The weekend's here. Time to pull out all the stops without pulling out all the cash. Our picks for time off on the cheap below.Involved, Socially @ Triple Base Gallery (Friday) "Triple Base's 'Involved, Socially' uses video installation, shadowplay, photography, and T-shirts to investigate the artist's process as a collaborative one. The wormholes start to form with stuff like Christine Wong Yap's mail-trading exhibit-within a
Jay Reatard canceled his upcoming tour--including his stop at Great American on Monday, Oct. 19, with Nobunny, Hunx & His Punx, Box Elders, and Digital Leather) after his band up and left him last week. In the words--or, as it were, Tweets-- of the band leader, "Band quit ! Fuck them! They are boring rich kids who= can't play for ahit anyways .. Say hello to your ugly and boring wifes opps I mean...".Reatard, a San Francisco favorite whose last local show packed the kids into Amoeba for a
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