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JAY REATARD COMPILES 2006-2007 SINGLES FOR ELABORATELY PACKAGED CD/DVD COMPILATION OUT ON IN THE RED RECORDS JUNE 17, 2008

JAY REATARD COMPILES 2006-2007 SINGLES FOR ELABORATELY PACKAGED CD/DVD COMPILATION OUT ON IN THE RED RECORDS JUNE 17, 2008

SPRING TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED

Garage/punk rock artist Jay Reatard is no stranger to the 7″ format, having released dozens over the years, including his current series of six limited edition 7″s on Matador Records (#3 comes out on June 24).

2006 and 2007 was an insanely prolific time for Jay, as he left behind his many bands and projects (among them The Reatards, The Lost Sounds, Angry Angles, Final Solutions, Bad Times, Terror Visions, etc.) and started recording under his own name, taking musical cues from Wipers, Wire, The Clean, The Adverts, and 999. Five singles were released around the time of his breakthrough album Blood Visions, as some of those album’s songs first appeared in versions on 7″ singles first.

Culled from now long out-of-print singles on In The Red, Goner, Squoodge, P. Trash, and Stained Circles, in pressings which ranged from 500 to 3000, Singles 06-07 highlights 17 songs of Jay at his most creative and hyper-melodic. Here Jay plays all the instruments on all the songs (save one guitar part on “All Wasted” by Alix Brown of Angry Angels), and recorded, mixed, and mastered all the recordings. The deluxe package also includes four live concerts capturing Jay’s blistering, breakneck shows from Philadelphia, Las Vegas, New York City, and The Netherlands.

Jay will soon be heading out on the road again, playing festivals in Chicago, Seattle, and Denmark, opening for Spoon and Le Savy Fav, and headlining many shows with support from In The Red artist Cheap Time. Dates below.

Meanwhile Jay has just completed the final songs for Matador’s single series, all six of which will be compiled on a CD/LP compilation to be released this September. He’s now hard at work on his next full-length and proper Matador Records debut, slated for an early 2009 release.

JAY REATARD TOUR DATES
Sun July 6 Roskilde Festival, Roskilde, Denmark (with Slayer, Judas Priest, Neil Young)
Mon July 14 Philadelphia Johnny Brendas
Tue July 15 Brooklyn Prospect Park Bandshell (with Spoon)
Thu July 17 Providence Lupo’s (with Spoon)
Sat July 19 Chicago Pitchfork Music Festival (with King Khan & The Shrines, Times New Viking, Dinosaur Jr.)
Sun July 20 Minneapolis Triple Rock (with Cheap Time)
Mon July 21 Fargo The Aquarium (with Cheap Time)
Thu July 24 Seattle Capitol Hill Block Party (with Le Savy Fav)
Fri July 25 Vancouver Commodore Ballroom (with Le Savy Fav)
Sat July 26 Portland Doug Fir (with Cheap Time)
Mon July 28 San Francisco The Independent (with Cheap Time)
Wed July 30 Los Angeles The Echo (with Cheap Time)
Thu July 31 San Diego The Casbah (with Cheap Time)
Fri Aug 1 Mesa AZ Hollywood Alley (with Cheap Time)
Sun Aug 3 Austin Red 7 (with Cheap Time)
Mon Aug 4 Dallas Club Dada (with Cheap Time)