Friday Jay Reatard Fix*

*Memphis bastards may notice this is not, in fact, Jay Reatard.

Nothing Can Hurt Me

Available on iTunes starting TODAY.

Sharing The Love

My recent acquisition of a Record Store Day copy of the Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me soundtrack came with a Dropcard code. Feel The Power of Big Star's pop I say. Feel it!

Shit

Dave's sheriff, Andy Griffith has gone to be with Aunt Bee and Floyd the Barber.  If you get a chance, watch Kazan's A Face In The Crowd, where he is a decidedly less wholesome character.  Part of the story takes place in Memphis.  Need I say more?

Catchy Friday Where Have You Been?

Memphis garage rock, yeh! (If I've never heard of them, then they're new to me)

Twenty Years

Some of us may remember Sean Lee. Some of us may not. Regardless, this is his latest single, Twenty Years.

Pistols In Memphis

Of course, we all know the Pistols played in Memphis. Now, you can relive the experience through the magic of File Transfer Protocol! Yours until some bastard deletes it!

Free Burrito Grande for anybody who can decipher the banter.

Memphis Pop Pilgrimage

I suggested The Arcade Restaurant on the A.V. Club's Pop Pilgrimage website, and they visited! (And if you haven't seen Mystery Train, shame on you.)

Billing itself as “Memphis’ Oldest Café,” The Arcade Restaurant has been at the corner of Memphis’ South Main Street and G.E. Patterson Boulevard since 1919. Just steps away from the train station, the restaurant has seen its surroundings rise, fall, and rise again with the fortunes of the city. Once the bustling heart of Memphis’ downtown, the neighborhood around the Arcade fell into decline in the 1970s and ’80s. By the time Jim Jarmusch arrived to shoot his 1989 film Mystery Train, hard times had overtaken what had become an especially seedy part of town.

Thankyouverymuch.

Shit

Tommy Höehn

Hold Fucking Steady!!!!!!!!!!!

New Hold Steady Album!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Streaming here!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm so excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also, it turns out one of Famous Jay's famous friends is touring with them as their second guitarist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He Still Had It

Shit. What else can you say?

Jim Dickinson dies at 67.