Author Archives: Scotter

Aloha>Aloe Vera>Al Roker>’ello mate>Hello Kitty

By Scotter | Published: January 7, 2010
(Post title homage the Peabs) There are two reasons for the title of this post. 1. This picture is great. Check out the varicose veins on the guy dressed as a Keebler Elf! 2. The new Aloha song is fantastic. If you like Death Cab with Cutie, then you’ve never heard Aloha and how much better [...]
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Get Ready to Par-Tay! Xiu Xiu Embarks on World/U.S. Tour

By Scotter | Published: January 6, 2010
P4K has the logistics. My favorite band to be weirded out by. They’re playing the MOCAD in Detroit on April 17. Let’s get boozed up and get creepy yet strangely beautiful. I’ll bring my glow sticks if you bring your S&M gear and castanets. Also, I’m definitely wearing my old high school varsity jacket to [...]
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This Just In! Last Year’s Peter, Bjorn, and John Album Actually Pretty Good

By Scotter | Published: January 5, 2010
If you’re like me, with the pressure of the year-end best-of list behind you, it should be of some surprise that Peter, Bjorn, and John’s Living Thing, the long-awaited and oft-maligned follow-up to Writer’s Block, is actually pretty good. I was unsure, but after listening to it a few times today, yeah, I think it’s [...]
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Scotter’s 2009 Music Picks and Stuff

By Scotter | Published: December 29, 2009
When we posted our first year-end lists way back in 2006, the whole mp3 blog thing was still fairly new. We certainly weren’t the trailblazers, but we did have the advantage of starting our little music blog before the internet became flooded with the likes of us, before services like Hype Machine and Elbo.ws were required [...]
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“Save the World” on Blog Action Day

By Scotter | Published: October 15, 2009
(To skip the speech and go right to the track, click here) When I first heard about Blog Action Day, I thought it was specifically meant to raise critical mass awareness for climate change and sustainability–a campaign to flood the internet with enough facts and insights and motivating factors to convince the web’s million users [...]
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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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Fucking Awesome Festival Starts This Thursday

By Scotter | Published: August 11, 2009
Full line-up and contests you should have been entering at Eat This City.
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