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Monthly Archives: September 2006

Pulling the Plug on the Party? Not Just Yet.

By Amy | Published: September 20, 2006
Electric Six Switzerland [Metropolis Records; 2006] Rockists hate Electric Six. Rockists think that Electric Six is everything good rock should not be: trashy, jokey, lewd, full of hooks and disco and naked ladies. Pitchfork Media’s review of last spring’s Señor Smoke, the Six’s second full-length album, branded the band “dick-and-fart-joke rock.” It called the album’s [...]
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I’m From Barcelona – Let Me Introduce My Friends

By Todd | Published: September 18, 2006
I’m From Barcelona Let Me Introduce My Friends [Dolores; 2006] The release of I’m From Barcelona’s LP Let Me Introduce My Friends couldn’t have come at a better time.  This is the kind of music that brings people together –and what better time to bring people together than at the beginning of the school year. [...]
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Dylan Demystified

By Daniel | Published: September 17, 2006
Bob Dylan Modern Times [Columbia Records; 2006] This is the first time I have ever attempted to write about Mr. Bob Dylan.  He has always been one of the most important people in my life and has gotten me through numerous hard times, but I have never been able to come up with the words [...]
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News Post – September 15, 2006: A Restless Farewell to WOXY; Christmas Cheer?; Live from Austin

By postrockist | Published: September 15, 2006
RIP WOXY Video may have killed the radio star, and bloated corporate conglomerates may have transmitted a terminal illness to the heart of mainstream radio, but what scourge befell the beloved internet radio station, WOXY.com? In the words of the ever-prescient ABBA, “I work all night, I work all day, to pay the bills I [...]
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Matthew Friedberger – Holy Ghost Language School

By Todd | Published: September 10, 2006
Matthew Friedberger Winter Women/Holy Ghost Language School [859 Recordings; 2006] The following is a suggested Wikipedia entry for Holy Ghost Language School. Matthew Friedberger (born October 21st, 1972 in Oak Park, Illinois) is one-half the talent of the ambitious, though some would say foolhardy and overreaching, indie rock duo The Fiery Furnaces. While a quick [...]
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The Mountain Goats–Get Lonely

By Scotter | Published: September 6, 2006
The Mountain Goats Get Lonely [4AD; 2006] Music critics who are a bit more deadline-driven than your fellow Post-Rockists have gotten their opinions to the public earlier and have classified The Mountain Goats’ new album Get Lonely as a break-up album. They are wrong. It isn’t a break-up album; it’s a broke-up album. John Darnielle [...]
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Pop Roundup! – September 1, 2006

By Daniel | Published: September 1, 2006
Okay, listen up, gentle readers. If the Post-Rockist is a place for recovering music snobs, I think it’s high time we did a feature on today’s pop music, or, music that snobs wouldn’t be caught dead listening to. It is time to review current popular singles that most of us used to call “pop shit” or [...]
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