Goner Fest is right around the corner.

  • Goner Fest is right around the corner.

Get ready for a late September road trip down I-40 East, because Goner Fest is returning to Memphis. With 30 some-odd bands and hundreds of rowdy scalawags and ne’er-do-wells expected to attend, it looks as if the Bluff City will once more be reduced to a smoldering pile of puked-up cigarette butts, fishnets and condom wrappers.

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The four-day festival is the work of Goner Records, which is both a label (Ty Segall, Jay Reatard, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Harlan T. Bobo, Reigning Sound) and an excellent record store. The shindig kicks off Sept. 22 at the store, located in the Cooper-Young neighborhood, continues through the weekend with evening and afternoon performances at The Hi-Tone and wraps up Sunday night back at the record store. Get your golden ticket here.

Expect lots of rock ‘n’ roll that doesn’t give a bachelor-party beer shit about trivial concerns such as politeness or being nice or sobriety or chords or tuning or wearing deodorant or not bleeding all over a bunch of expensive furniture or remembering to flush or turning it down.

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Or something. I don’t know. I’ve never been to Goner Fest, but I’ve been told by relatively reliable sources that it’s like SXSW minus all the industry douches and bronzed frat-dude looky-loos and trust-fund babies and shitty bands playing in tents and corporate sponsored everything.

But I might have to go this year, the lineup looks killer:

A reunited Gories – the R&B/garage trio led by Mick Collins, of Dirtbombs renown;

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Rev. John Wilkins, hill-country bluesman and son of the legendary Robert Wilkins;

Ty Segall, who blew the doors off White Water Tavern last September;

’60s garage brutes The Alarm Clocks;

Plus a bunch more bands, and not a single one of them playing chillwave, glo-fi, witch-house, minimal-cold-dark-synth-wave, click-fart, stumble-core or whatever.

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Press release and lineup after the jump.

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