Rollo & Grady — The Black Lips, King Khan & BBQ Show, The Dirtbombs, Jay Reatard and Roky Erickson are among the acts confirmed for the Scion Garage Fest. The free event will take place in Portland, Oregon on October 17th. Also on the bill are The Almighty Defenders... more info

Rollo & Grady — Amoeba Records - Hollywood 1.) Soundtrack - Inglourious Basterds 2.) Dead Weather - Horehound 3.) Jay Reatard - Watch Me Fall 4.) Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix 5.) Soundtrack - (500) Days Of Summer 6.) Brendan Benson - My Old Familiar Friend 7.)... more info

MTV.com News — Kings of Leon continue to hold strong on Billboard, nearly a year after album's release.By Gil Kaufman Stephan Jenkins of Third Eye Blind Photo: Neilson Barnard/ Getty Images Congrats to country queen Reba McEntire for notching her second ... more info

Altsounds — These newcomers to the 2009 edition of the POP Montreal International Music Festival will join some of the best headliners that Pop world has to offer. Some of them are our heroes, some are iconoclasts, some we have been planning for years, and all a... more info

Rolling Stone — Rolling Stone’s Kevin O’Donnell breaks down two recent hot releases — Brendan Benson’s My Old Familiar Friend and Jay Reatard’s Watch Me Fall — in this week’s new music podcast. Up first, Raconteur Benson returns with his fourth solo LP... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — The Washington Post and The Quietus review the new Jay Reatard album, Watch Me Fall. Paste interviews Reatard. Margaret Atwood talks to the Toronto Star about her innovative book tour for her new novel, The Year of the Flood. The... more info

Perfect Porridge — This is Jay Reatard’s new video for “It Ain’t Gonna Save Me” off his new album Watch Me Fall. Directed by Bryce Kass and produced by Daft Arts. more info

The Culture Of Me — Probably the greatest birthday party to ever take place, the one in this new Jay Reatard video for first single "It Ain't Gonna Save Me" (off of Jay's still-to-come sophomore record, Watch Me Fall) turns for the best in an... more info

Rawkblog — As I noted in my Jay Reatard review yesterday, it already feels like the explosion of next-wave lo-fi/garage that burst into indie popularity last year is fading from public favor. Let’s hope there’s still time for the Marked Men, a Denton, Texas... more info

Rawkblog — Jay Reatard was born just a few years too late. A publicly obnoxious blowhard with shoulders chipped like Pringles, his music has the welcoming melodies of late ’90s PG-13 power-pop — a walking contradiction that might make him the missing link b... more info