The legendary Easley McCain recording studio in Memphis suffered considerable damage from an electrical fire on Wednesday. The studio was used by some of our greatest, including Pavement, Sonic Youth, Guided by Voices, Jack White and Loretta Lynn, Modest Mouse, the White Stripes, Cat Power, Wilco and Jeff Buckley, who was recording there when he disappeared in 1997. In losing the Easley McCain we didn't just lose a piece of history, as Donewaiting reports we also lost the latest Silver Jews recording, scheduled to be mastered this weekend. Apparently the recording which marked a 3/5 reunion of Pavement was delivered to the studio the morning of the fire.

Update from Donewaiting: "All masters were located in another part of the building which received little to no fire damage. Whew!" Great news!