The Goner message board banner reads as follows:
R.I.P. JAY REATARD
It is with great sadness that
we report the passing of our good friend Jay Reatard.
Jay died in his sleep last night.
We will pass along information about funeral arrangements
when they are made public.
We at L.A. Record are saddened by the news today that Jay Reatard has died at the age of 29. He was one of the very first people we interviewed for L.A. Record when we started back in 2005.
Here is the original interview which he conducted by payphone after taking a Greyhound cross country for a show on the west coast and we also have an interview we did with him when he came through Los Angeles back in March of 2008. To read click here.
UPDATE
Via: Paste
According to a banner sitting atop the Goner Records message board and a tweet from Memphis newspaper, The Commercial Appeal, garage rocker Jay Lindsey, better known by his stage name, Jay Reatard, died in his sleep last night.
Details are scant right now, but according to the Commercial Appeal’s story, Lindsey was found dead around 3:30 a.m. this morning in bed at his home in Midtown Memphis. No cause of death is known at this time and a police investigation is underway.
1 nico // Jan 13, 2010 at 6:21 pm
We were just talking about Jay this morning when I picked up the last issue of Death+Taxes to again read through the large spread they did on him.
Our condolences. We send our love out to all who dug his tunes.
2 Death Row Jethro // Jan 14, 2010 at 1:46 pm
This Death+Taxes whore has posted this morbid plug for their rag on BrooklynVegan and who knows how many other blogs.
DO NOT WANT
3 nico // Jan 14, 2010 at 2:45 pm
No man, this actually happend. It’s not a D+T plug. Honest. Sincere condolences to Friends, Family, and fans of Jay. R.I.P.
4 num lock // Jan 14, 2010 at 3:37 pm
sounds pluggy to me
5 TIM LEARY // Jan 14, 2010 at 4:47 pm
Even on all of this acid i know that Jay Reatard died in 2010 and not 2009.
6 louisiana // Jan 14, 2010 at 9:01 pm
Forget that you think it’s a plug. The man just died. You know?
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