[playlist] Hump Day Power Play (7-11-2012)

Keep Cool Mix

With record temps topping the weather charts, it's been a challenge to beat the heat. Luckily, this week's HDPP is pretty damn cool...

Stream the playlist below (or by clicking here).

:: Hump Day Power Play (7-11-2012) ::
01 :: "Gallop" - Jeremy Jay
02 :: "Spin The Bottle" - The King Khan & BBQ Show
03 :: "I'm Watching You" - Jay Reatard
04 :: "Baby Missiles" - The War On Drugs
05 :: "The Same Thing" - Cass McCombs
06 :: "Face It" - Beach Fossils
07 :: "Walkabout" - Atlas Sound
08 :: "The Magic" - Joan As Police Woman
09 :: "Come Closer" - Miles Kane
10 :: "Piledriver Waltz" - Alex Turner
11 :: "Cheerleader" - St. Vincent
12 :: "The Alter" - Wye Oak
13 :: "Undertow" - Warpaint

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[video] Spoon - "No Time" (Jay Reatard cover)

Performed live @ Union County Musicfest (9-12-2010)

One of the last performance from the late, great Jay Reatard was in Milwaukee, opening for friends and fellow labelmates Spoon. Paying homage to the indie punk rocker who died so suddenly and tragically, Spoon broke out this cover of "No Time" on Sunday. Check it out above, and hear Jay's version below.

Jay Reatard - "No Time"

[news] Jay Reatard dies at 29

RIP Jay Reatard

According to Matador and Commercial Appeal, Jimmy Lee Lindsey Jr., aka Jay Reatard, passed away in his sleep last night. Found at 3:30am today, Reatard was only 29. He was apparently complaining of flu-like symptoms, and even tweeted about it last Saturday:

If I don't get well soon I'm gonna eat myself into pig champion/tad teritory

So sad for musicians to die so young. No word yet on cause of death.

[news] Spoon - New Years Eve Show (Milwaukee, WI)

Spoon's NYE show w/ Jay Reatard

In the latest Spoon news, it appears that the band will be playing the Riverside Theater in Milwaukee, WI for a New Years Eve gig. Tickets for this performance will go on sale Oct 23, but there will be a pre-sale just for Spoon fans beginning at 10am CST on Monday Oct 19th. These pre-sale tickets will exclude venue surcharges.

And if that wasn't great enough news, it also looks like the opening band will be Jay Reatard (that is, if he's able to get his band back together).

DECEMBER 31
SPOON W/ JAY REATARD
RIVERSIDE THEATER
(Milwaukee, WI)

In other Spoon news, the first four full-length albums in the Spoon catalog are now available digitally worldwide for the first time, along with various propaganda items old and new, through this site.