{"id":144011,"date":"2026-02-04T23:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T23:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/144011\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T23:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T23:10:11","slug":"jay-reatard-channeling-texas-band-sex-mex-comes-to-bradenton-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/144011\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay Reatard-channeling Texas band Sex Mex comes to Bradenton on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"472\" data-attachment-id=\"351902\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/sexmexsux-bandcamp\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/sexmexsux-Bandcamp.png?fit=1028%2C621&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1028,621\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sexmexsux Bandcamp\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;A crop from the cover Sex Mex\u2019s \u2018Down In the Dump Trucks\u2019 EP&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/sexmexsux-Bandcamp.png?fit=300%2C181&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/sexmexsux-Bandcamp.png?fit=780%2C472&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/sexmexsux-Bandcamp.png\" alt=\"A dramatic black-and-white, high-contrast action shot of a shirtless person with short hair and glasses. They are captured mid-movement with one leg kicked high into the air toward the left of the frame and one arm raised, their muscles tensed and expression focused. The background is entirely black, making the subject appear spotlighted in the darkness.\" class=\"wp-image-351902\"  \/>A crop from the cover Sex Mex\u2019s \u2018Down In the Dump Trucks\u2019 EP Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/f4.bcbits.com\/img\/a0641981626_10.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sexmexsux \/ Bandcamp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tennessee songwriter James Lee Lindsey Jr. has been gone for 16 years, but the spirit of his ridiculous garage-pop project Jay Reatard lives on in folks like Nathan Gray.<\/p>\n<p>Leader of his own Texas band, Sex Mex, Gray used to tap Ableton to help him play guitar and now has bandmates to create freaky rock and roll that blurs the lines between pop and punk. <\/p>\n<p>On the road supporting a brand new EP,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sexmexsux.bandcamp.com\/album\/down-in-the-dump-trucks-ep\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/sexmexsux.bandcamp.com\/album\/down-in-the-dump-trucks-ep\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Down in the Dump Truck<\/a>s, Sex Mex is supported by Bay area exports Wolf-Face and Pet Lizard, along with \u201cgod\u2019s least favorite boy band,\u201d Spanish Bombs.<\/p>\n<p>A gig well worth the short road trip from Tampa or St. Pete.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770246611_339_hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube video\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" nopin=\"nopin\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/altnewsfoundation.org\/cl-tampa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pitch in to help make the Tampa Bay Journalism Project a success.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/tampa\/NewsletterSignup\/Page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to Creative Loafing newsletters.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAiECLjru3gB6BLYKOKFLfkVZsqFAgKIhAi467t4AegS2CjihS35FWb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google News<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbreak.com\/@c\/1599764?s=01\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NewsBreak<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/CreativeLoafingTampa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reddit<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cltampabay\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cltampabay\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/cltampabay.bsky.social\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BlueSky<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"collection-link has-small-font-size\">This article appears in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/collections\/jan-29-feb-04\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jan. 29 \u2013 Feb. 04<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRead his 2016 intro letter\u00a0and disclosures from 2022 and 2021.\u00a0Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/author\/rroa\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Ray Roa\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A crop from the cover Sex Mex\u2019s \u2018Down In the Dump Trucks\u2019 EP Credit: sexmexsux \/ Bandcamp Tennessee&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[69834,69835,69836,135,1865,137,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-144011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-live-music-in-bradenton","9":"tag-oscura","10":"tag-sex-mex","11":"tag-tampa","12":"tag-tampa-bay-concerts","13":"tag-tampa-headlines","14":"tag-tampa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}