“Bitch, you give me fits!” growled Memphis garage punk Jay Reatard yesterday evening, closing out a mightily unusual solo acoustic show at, of all places, a makeshift, Wired Magazine-sponsored store ...

“Better Than Something: Jay Reatard” is a fascinating and bittersweet documentary about an iconic garage-rock musician who died at the peak of his creative output. Filmmakers Alex Hammond and Ian ...

The Jay Reatard band toured incessantly and developed into one of the best live bands in the country. Converts were either blown away by the show then blown away by the level of songwriting and ...

I remember fuzz. No songs, just fuzz. And a Gibson Flying V buzz-sawing a new riff into the atmosphere every 140 seconds with the support of a comically rapid, ping-ponging rhythm section. I recall ...