I was hoping that the whole death thing would ease up in 2010. Not off to such a great start. RIP Jay Reatard. You will be missed my man.

Monitor Mix, as usual, gets it totally right: “It’s a sad day for music, because we lost a guy who made the kind of songs most of us, in our heart of hearts, really love. We love his music because, before we got all worldly and esoteric in our tastes, all we wanted was for our music to rumble and roar, to give us that teenage feeling forever.”