Brooklyn Vegan — WU LYF @ Mercury Lounge in July (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin) today in NYC * Sting @ Roseland Ballroom * Slavic Soul Party @ Barbes * Jay Reatard movie screening * Thundercat @ Le Poisson Rouge * The Ocean,... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Bill Pearis The Jay Reatard documentary Better Than Something shows tonight (11/8) at the IFC Center at 8:30 PM. (It also showed this past Friday.) The film began as a short film to help promote Jay's final album, Watch... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Puerto Rican garage rock band Davila 666 talks about its sound, its connection to Jay Reatard, and its made love for In the Red Records more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Andrew St. Clair Cy Barkley & fans "Since the unfortunate passing of Jay Reatard, there has been a void in the hearts of scumfucks everywhere. Enter Cy Barkley, a man straddling the line between garage and punk with... more info

Impose Magazine — People treat bands like The Clean, The Chills, and Tall Dwarfs with a reverence normally reserved for the divine. Drop the term 'Kiwi rock' into any music discussion, and watch everyone around you begin to glow. The label that has defined this sound ... more info

Impose Magazine — King Louie is one of those musicians that makes me think, 'This guy's a genius, and everybody else is stupid,' simply due to the fact that really bad music gets notice, while King Louie has been the Kevin Bacon of the American garage scene for going ... more info

NME - The Daily Download — With Download Festival consuming my weekend, this weekly round-up’s been a bit delayed this week, so apologies. But better late than never - feast your ears on these ten brand new free MP3 downloads. 1. Best Coast – ‘Gone Again’ Just in tim... more info

NME - The Bands Blog — This week’s issue of the magazine celebrates music’s Ultimate Cult Heroes, from Syd Barrett to Jay Reatard, Mark E. Smith and The Sonics. Here, in an extended extract from the mag, The Drums’ guitarist Jacob Graham talks us through his own cult... more info

Impose Magazine — Memphis garage-punker Jay Reatard's original label, Goner Records, has announced that his first full length LP Teenage Hate - released in 1998 - is set for a deluxe reissue on May 31. This double release will also include Fuck Elvis Here's t... more info

Impose Magazine — Jay Reatard recorded a mountain of material before many people outside of Memphis had heard of him. It all adds up to a precocious fully-flushed out oeuvre that ends in the polished production he put out for his final full-length on Matador. (Just tr... more info