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Jad Fair: Papercuts December 6 - 31 Opening Reception Saturday, December 6 6:30 to 8:30 pm Jad Fair is an Austin artist & musician, best known as the co-founder, along with his brother David, of t...

Yo La Tengo and Jad Fair reissue the long-lost collaborative LP Strange but True finally!! — making its return. Once out-of-print and absent from streaming, the cult favorite will be reissued on vinyl, CD, and for the first time, digital platforms on December 12 via Joyful Noise and Bar/None. Fans can get a first taste [...] The post Yo La Tengo & Jad Fair’s Long-Lost ‘Strange but True’ Returns December 12 appeared first on AudioFuzz.

In the '90s, Jad Fair had five favorite bands and songwriters: Daniel Johnston, The Pastels, Sonic Youth, Teenage Fanclub, and Yo La Tengo. It's a good list, sure, but what's most remarkable about it is that, in the course of a dozen years or so, Fair made music with all of them in one form or another. Jad Fair has been prolific for half a century now, long before the Internet could create a simultaneous and seemingly eternal archive of everything someone with his predilections made. He's been involved in several hundred titles, at least, many of them out-of-print on tiny labels that do not exist anymore. In fact, one of those collaborations that Fair made in the '90s-Strange But True, with Yo La Tengo-has been hard to find, despite it's stateside release on October 20th 1998, by Matador Records. For the first time, the album is being reissued on vinyl by Joyful Noise and Bar/None.By the time Fair played a party with Yo La Tengo in the mid-'90s, they were all friends, fans, and collaborators, having worked on or released records together. When Fair suggested they all head into the studio, the trio bit. The result, Strange But True, is as wonderful, varied, and wild as some enormous lawn of native grasses. This collaborative album showcases the aritsts' uncanny range, bringing us back to a time when indie rock was still free to be as weird and unruly as it's makers wanted it to be.