Dear fellow music lovers, writers, bloggers, and mysfyts, Our RSS feed broke. I'm sorry. It's probably my fault. Seriously, it's not you. It's me. I was trying to mess around and I broke our feed. Luckily, the good folks at DreamHost helped us fix the other stuff I broke–like the ability to click around the site and read it–but the feed is broke. I've been working on fixing it without breaking it more for too many hours, and the fact is that we're probably going to have to do the mature thing and actually update our blogging platform [...]
NOTE: This should have been posted last week, but as you may have noticed we've been dealing with a giant technical clusterphooie lately that shows no signs of going away anytime soon. When the Bluebird shut down for renovations a few weeks ago, it was kind of a big deal. As the city's last best hope for a genuine indie rock venue, everybody and their sister had an opinion about it. I'll be honest, I was hoping they'd play more into the glorified rec room vibe they [...]
NOTE: This should have been posted last week, but as you may have noticed we've been dealing with a giant technical clusterphooie lately that shows no signs of going away anytime soon. When the Bluebird shut down for renovations a few weeks ago, it was kind of a big deal. As the city's last best hope for a genuine indie rock venue, everybody and their sister had an opinion about it. I'll be honest, I was hoping they'd play more into the glorified rec room vibe they [...]
Hi readers, As some of you might have noticed, our feed has ceased to work. While trying to fix this problem, it seems like we've been gumming up other works in the infrastructure of the good ship Post-Rockist. Ergo, there's a mild chance that we may go offline for a short time (and "a short time" is entirely relative to 1) our tech skill, 2) the severity of the issues, and 3) the current phase of the moon). If we do go offline, there's a very good chance that we'll be back [...]
What can I say, friends? It's Thursday night, the end of a long, weary week, and I'm writing to you from the top of one of Milwaukee 's highest hills, looking out at a freezing, glittering town, drinking a glass of wine and fighting the accumulated fatigue of one more battering day. I just left the national premiere of Handmade Nation , a coast-to-coast documentary of the revival of indie craft and DIY art and design philosophy, a project helmed by Faythe Levine, one of the most active and visible members [...]
Are there any Feminist Theory majors in the audience tonight? ... Women's Studies? ... What about, uh, History majors with an emphasis in Soviet Studies? ... Ah, forget it. This is a song about how everyone's an asshole. Patrick Stickles, the disheveled frontman for New Jersey's over-earnest punk rock group Titus Andronicus , knows how to rev up a crowd: belt out some garbled, possibly literary (?) songs and follow them up with a few meandering, slightly condescening remarks about the audience's intelligence. Bret Michaels should take note. [...]
Are there any Feminist Theory majors in the audience tonight? ... Women's Studies? ... What about, uh, History majors with an emphasis in Soviet Studies? ... Ah, forget it. This is a song about how everyone's an asshole. Patrick Stickles, the disheveled frontman for New Jersey's over-earnest punk rock group Titus Andronicus , knows how to rev up a crowd: belt out some garbled, possibly literary (?) songs and follow them up with a few meandering, slightly condescening remarks about the audience's intelligence. Bret Michaels should take note. [...]
Once, there was a man. A man named Gil. Gil grew up in Youngstown, Ohio, a city famous for its gangsters and its proximity to Pennsylvania. This Gil was no ordinary child, surely, but a child with a dream. A party dream. A dream of young people dancing and singing and generally having a good time to music he would play. To music he would pre-record and sing to whilst he and his Ultimate Donny were dancing or while ripping a sweet-ass guitar solo. That boy became a man. And that dream (that beautiful, beautiful dream) became [...]
Once, there was a man. A man named Gil. Gil grew up in Youngstown, Ohio, a city famous for its gangsters and its proximity to Pennsylvania. This Gil was no ordinary child, surely, but a child with a dream. A party dream. A dream of young people dancing and singing and generally having a good time to music he would play. To music he would pre-record and sing to whilst he and his Ultimate Donny were dancing or while ripping a sweet-ass guitar solo. That boy became a man. And that dream (that beautiful, beautiful dream) became [...]
Tuesday night is the night that we usually go to your mother's place and I teach her how to use the video machine again, and Wednesday night is the night that we're making love. But Thursday night is the night New Zealand's fourth most popular folk-parody duo pay a visit to the Fox. And you know what that means... Aww yeah, it's business time. Okay, uhm, that's all the lead-in I have prepared. I basically just wanted an excuse to post that video. Tour dates are after the jump, courtesy the [...]
For our Friday Fix, I've decided to offer up three tracks by Detroit bands that I've been meaning to write about with depth for a long time. But when you really want to write something stellar about music you really, really admire and enjoy, nothing is ever really good enough, and you eventually get fed up with not writing the words they deserve and just want to write anything about them in order get their music out there to others. And that's just what I'm a-gonna do..." Daniel [...]
Remember record stores? You know, places not Borders or Best Buy that are owned by people who actually like music and employ other people who also like music? You know, employees who you get to know kind of well and who pay attention to your music purchases (because they remember you if you go there enough) and then perhaps suggest other albums you might like? Remember those days? Well, I used to go to Desirable Discs in Dearborn, Michigan. Telegraph Road location. The year was 2002, and there was a guy there with thick-rimmed glasses years before they [...]
While I can in no way claim to have had anything to do with the content of the following infomercial, I also cannot deny some complicity in its making. Enjoy!
It's Friday. Here's some new-ish tunage to get you ready for the weekend. Of Montreal - "First Time High" (Of Chicago Acoustic Version) (from Jon Brion Remix EP ) Download audio file (OfChicago.mp3) If you only listen to Skeletal Lamping once it sounds hopelessly jarring, like a desperate cut-and-paste job filled with illogical stops and starts that were never properly smoothed out. But the more you listen to it, the more you pick up [...]
Hoo-whee! Willya look at that? The 2008 Village Voice Pazz & Jop results are in! This is particularly exciting news for those of you out there thinking, "You know, reading hundreds of incredibly subjective yet predictably similar 'Best Of' lists throughout the entire month of December never grew the least bit tedious, but what I'm really looking for is a pseudo-scientific aggregate of hundreds of critic picks compiled with a vague point system that will settle the matter of the best music of 2008 once and for all." Well, sir or madam, today is your lucky day! And, [...]
Hoo-whee! Willya look at that? The 2008 Village Voice Pazz & Jop results are in! This is particularly exciting news for those of you out there thinking, "You know, reading hundreds of incredibly subjective yet predictably similar 'Best Of' lists throughout the entire month of December never grew the least bit tedious, but what I'm really looking for is a pseudo-scientific aggregate of hundreds of critic picks compiled with a vague point system that will settle the matter of the best music of 2008 once and for all." Well, sir or madam, today is your lucky day! And, [...]
James Brown - "Funky President (People It's Bad)" (from Make It Funky - The Big Payback: 1971-1975 ) Download audio file (Funky.mp3) Happy Inauguration Day, people.
(image via ) Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion has leapfrogged reviews and landed headfirst in feature-length think-piece territory. What happens when something patently "not mainstream" hits mainstream acclaim? We don't talk about the band, we only talk about the idea of the band: Mark Richardson : With their constantly evolving sonic identity, in-your-face vocal mannerisms, and open-ended ideas about what their music might "mean," Animal Collective seem designed to inspire obsessive fans and vociferous detractors in equal measure. Merriweather Post Pavilion , [...]
As an avid NPR listener, I've reported in the past on NPRiana that has taken my interest, and so I point you to these two stories, further proving how big of a loser I am while perhaps finding some kinship with you, dear readers, if you yourselves might be NPR dorks as well, or at least a little bit of harmless sympathy from you cool kids who have decided to stop reading right...about...now. You can listen to both stories for free by clicking on the links below. First, it [...]
Panda Bear - "I'm Not" (Phaseone remix) Download audio file (Phaseone-ImNot.mp3) Burial - "Archangel" (Phaseone remix) Download audio file (Phaseone-Archangel.mp3) Grouper - "Heavy Water / I'd Rather Be Sleeping" (Phaseone remix) Download audio file (Phaseone-HeavyWater.mp3) Sometimes I have no idea how local news filters through to me. The other day I was reading the New York-based blog [...]
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