Jay Reatard

Well, you don't need a potted history of San Francisco synthpunk OGs The Units, when you can read the long and strong interview with the band's founding father Scott Ryser, which The Quietus has just put up at the time of writing. Read More

The first time I heard Jay Reatard's "Blood Visions" (the title track off his 2006 release), I would have sworn that he'd been around for decades, but he's really only been on the scene for about one. Read More

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif., Dec. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Guitar Center, the world's largest musical instrument retailer, announced the unveiling of its innovative online "Wish List Poster Creator" ( www.guitarce n ter. c om/wishlist ). Read More

The song's first breaths -- a mystical exhale of spooky, spiraling acoustic guitar layers -- betray the chug-chug-chugging death march to follow. Read More

JAY REATARD is the hardest-working long-hair in the punk-rock game. Read More

State Theatre, 687 Central Ave., St. Petersburg. $28. (727) 895-3045. Read More

As far as persona goes, this middle-school dropout from Memphis is as misanthropic and explosive as Iggy at his peak. Read More

The Faces reunion is out, The Velvets, Big Star and The Beatles reunions are kind of on, Tom Waits is all over the place, Neil Young is compiling for the Bridge School, Massive Attack make a new album, Lady Gaga is old news to the Grammys, and a look at the good and the bad associated with live albums. Read More

Later this week I'll be celebrating my 29th birthday, it's not a milestone year or something I'm particularly looking forward to turning (though I'm seeing the Pixies to celebrate it), it's just the natural order of things me aging and whatnot. Read More

Or, don't skin the bear before it's been shot. Read More