Monthly Archives: February 2009

A Valentine’s Day Surprise from Mobius Band

By Scotter | Published: February 16, 2009
In other Valentine’s Day music news, this past weekend Brooklyn’s Mobius Band dropped a free EP of covers titled Empire of Love, which you can download for free here. Mobius Band was simultaneously one of the best and most disappointing shows of 2008 for me. By the second song, I was completely hooked–this is my [...]
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Friday Fix: The Valentine’s Day Mix, 2009; or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love

By Scotter | Published: February 13, 2009
CAVEAT: If you despise Valentine’s Day, it’s best to stop reading now. Or, perhaps, you should pay extra close attention. In late September 2001, I was watching a Canadian benefit concert for 9/11 called Music Without Borders. At the time, The Tragically Hip was one of my favorite bands (and still is) and I vividly [...]
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Happy Birthday, Simon Schama!; or, The post that makes this blog the nerdiest blog in Christendom

By Scotter | Published: February 11, 2009
While all the cool kids are making a big deal about Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday today, we at The Post-Rockist have discovered that a scholar and writer of even greater distinction (at least to us) has a birthday tomorrow, and we’d like to celebrate it. Simon Schama is a history and art history professor at [...]
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Phaseone: Interview + Jay Dee Remix

By Todd | Published: February 11, 2009
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Jay Dee – “Walkinonit” (Phaseone remix) Last month I strung together a number of compound sentences and besotted adjectives to endtroduce you to St. Louis hip-hop producer and DIY Dilla disciple Phaseone. Well, this week I had a chance to sit down with him for a quick Q&A [...]
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In which we put you in a trance with a funky song

By Todd | Published: February 10, 2009
Listen up everybody: apparently Scotter’s last site update unintentionally ruffled the feathers of a few concerned little chickadees out there in Internetsville. But please, don’t worry about a thing because this modest technical update we’ve got planned won’t take long. To echo the wisdom of the immortal Maurice Starr, “Get loose everybody ’cause we’re gonna [...]
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Firebird Grand Reopening! Gil Mantera, Thor Axe, et al. – St. Louis, 2/05/09

By Todd | Published: February 9, 2009
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 [...]
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Um, we are experiencing technical difficulties

By Scotter | Published: February 8, 2009
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 [...]
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