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The Lot Music Festival Starts and Ends Saturday

By Todd | Published: August 28, 2009
The Lot Music Festival is taking place this Saturday down in the heart of St. Louis. It’s located at the Schlafly Tap Room, so you know there’s going to be an abundance of quality brews, but there’s also going to be red hots, bar-b-que, alcoholic sno cones, Fred Bird, hoosier golf, and something called “What’s [...]
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R.I.P. Ellie Greenwich, 1940-2009

By Todd | Published: August 27, 2009
From the Los Angeles Times: Ellie Greenwich, the New York songwriter behind a string of 1960s hits that gave effervescent voice to unbridled teen romance including “Da Doo Ron Ron,” “Chapel of Love” and “Be My Baby,” many of them in collaboration with producer Phil Spector, died Wednesday of a heart attack, according to her [...]
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St. Vincent and Camera Obscura, acoustic in France, presumably to mix electric and acoustic in St. Louis

By Todd | Published: August 26, 2009
Normally I try not to be one of those bloggers who just regurgitates his spam box as a way of approximating personal taste, but this particular blast from, I think, “Grand Crew” caught my attention, and not just because it was HTML-embedded with obnoxious hypercolor neons and mostly written in an obscure European language I [...]
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We’re still around even if we’re not always here

By Todd | Published: August 25, 2009
Bill Withers – “Ain’t No Sunshine” (buy) [Audio clip: view full post to listen] The Magnetic Fields – “I Don’t Believe in the Sun” (buy) [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Jay Reatard – “There Is No Sun” (buy) [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Hi everybody! I know I’ve heard from a [...]
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Here’s the Thing #5: Black Eyed Peas Extravaganza!

By Andrew | Published: August 17, 2009
Tune in once again and listen to me and Liz run our traps about the latest chart-topping smash sensations.  This time ’round we’re tackling a couple doozies by the Black Eyed Peas: “Boom Boom Pow” and “I Gotta Feeling,” as well as a discussion of our recent trip to a real live Jamie Foxx concert.  [...]
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Twittering Fucking Awesome Fest – August 14-16

By Scotter | Published: August 14, 2009
7:47:08 PM: Live Tweeting Fucking Awesome Fest tonight. Let’s see how well this works. Check the blog or follow me @czechit 7:47:25 PM: The blog being http://www.post-rockist.com 7:49:03 PM: “twittering Fucking Awesome Fest” sounds rather dirty, doesn’t it? 7:53:53 PM: Tonight must see: Juiceboxxx 7:54:41 PM: Also, Croff Family Band is fantastic. Haven’t seen them [...]
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R.I.P. Les Paul

By Amy | Published: August 13, 2009
The Wizard of Waukesha, Les Paul, is dead at 94. Without this man, rock & roll as we know it probably wouldn’t exist. It’s tempting to say that about a lot of music legends, but the man who pioneered both the solid-body guitar and multi-track recording has a pretty convincing claim to the title. Here [...]
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