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On being local and a music blogger

There’s an interesting article about music blogging and local music over at the Saint Louis Beacon, featuring interviews with Matt Jordan of You Ain’t No Picasso, Annie Zaleski of the Riverfront Times’ A to Z, and yours truly of this little site you’re reading right now. Aside from touching on the general theme of what [...]
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I’m Going Away: New Fiery Furnaces album gets me all sorts of excited

While Scotter harbors his inexplicable blog-crush for the shrill Joanna Newsom, there’s still no band that gets me quite as hot and bothered as the inimitable Fiery Furnaces. I guess where he finds sustenance in the pomp and flutter of courtly Elizabethan balladry, my heart is tickled by winding Germanic meta-narratives filled with labrynthine plot [...]
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New Jens Lekman Song, “Happiness Will Be My Revenge” with The Sweptaways

There’s just something about Jens Lekman that we in Post-Rockistland can’t get enough of. “Happiness Will Be My Revenge” was written, recorded, and mixed by Jens, and can be found on The Sweptaways Show, from Sweden’s The Sweptaways. The album consists of artists taking the vocal lead while The Sweptaways accompany with full female chorus. [...]
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New Bones, New Discs

I’m no economist by any means, but when I can’t even squeeze over to the used bin without artfully dodging a slow-moving herd of cash-flush consumers, I’m guessing business is doing fairly well. Record Store Day in St. Louis was, by my entirely non-scientific analysis, a resounding success. Every single record store I went to [...]
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Celebrating Ye Olde Record Shoppe

After a day of vigorous teabagging, who among us couldn’t take a breather to submit to the beck and call of shiny black vinyl and an array of rare, hot seven inches? That’s right, Record Store Day is back upon us like Woody on Soon-Yi. This Saturday, independent shops all across U.S. of A. are [...]
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How many of you will click to a different site as soon as you see the words Joanna Newsom in the title?

Most if not all of my music-loving pals can’t stand Joanna Newsom. Seriously, I can’t even mention the name to some of them without getting a reaction of either immediate chagrin or nausea. I just don’t understand. I mean, I can see exactly why I’m such a huge fan: the wordiness of her lyrics, I [...]
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Flight of the Conchords coming to the Fabulous Fox in St. Louis, 4/30/09

Tuesday night is the night that we usually go to your mother’s place and I teach her how to use the video machine again, and Wednesday night is the night that we’re making love. But Thursday night is the night New Zealand’s fourth most popular folk-parody duo pay a visit to the Fox. And you [...]
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