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The Post-Rockist Takes on Pitchfork Music Festival ’08, Saturday

Jarvis Cocker Hi kids, Todd and Scotter here. As some of you know, we’re based in St. Louis and Detroit respectively, but we made our first collective concert outing last weekend at the Pitchfork Music Festival. Like usual with these kinds of things, we’re a little behind the other blogs, but what we lack in [...]
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Gone Pitchforkin’

***This is an automated response.*** Thanks for clicking onto the site. We’re currently out of the office (read: aren’t at work blogging at our jobs when we could be doing the actual work we get paid for) (j/k if my boss is reading this. LOL). The Post-Rockist is at Pitchfork Music Festival. Sadly, we’ll be [...]
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Post-Rockist’s Faves of ’08: So far, Sooooo good!

Gather ’round, chirren, and let Grandpappy Prockist tell ye a tale of yesteryear — a halcyon time when there was only one iPhone, one Flavor of Love, and, thank God, only one time of year when music bloggers would rigorously compile their highly informative and not-at-all redundant “Best Of” lists. But 2008 is a different [...]
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of Montreal New Album Track Listing – A Post-Rockist Exclusive!

Looks like we beat Pitchfork to the punch yet again. Through friends of friends of friends of friends of friends of friends of friends of the band, The Post-Rockist has acquired a complete track listing to of Montreal’s next full-length album, entitled Skeletal Lamping, due out on Polyvinyl in October 2008. Reportedly, the album will [...]
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Post-Rockist Picks of 2007: Day 4 (Lists from Todd and Kim)

TODD’s TOP 15 SONGS OF 2007 At the risk of sounding like a rock snob (which, after all, is the very antithesis of what being a post-rockist is all about), I can’t honestly say there were very many albums this year that grabbed my attention and drew me in obsessively from start to finish like [...]
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Post-Rockist Picks of 2007: Day 3 (Lists from Amy and E.Kula)

2007: Return to Indie Rock Mountain: The Mix CD by Amy Wracked, anguished and awestruck after my typically tumultuous freshman year of college, and blessed with my very first CD burner (built into my computer!!), I made a mix CD that I thought would express to my friends what a very special, significant and emotionally [...]
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Post-Rockist Picks of 2007: Day 2 (Lists from Bryan and Scotter)

BRYAN’S ALBUMS OF 2007 (Bryan writes for the Post-Rockist courtesy of Better Chatter). 10. Liars –Liars (buy) Sailing To Byzantium Liars have a big bag of tricks. They follow their heavy krautrock opus with an album containing some actual radio-friendly songs. “Houseclouds” sounds like a long lost Beck tune, “Sailing To Byzantium” eerily sounds like [...]
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