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unusual facts about post rock



Australian indie rock

In inner Melbourne, a considerable post rock scene flourished, with bands like Art of Fighting, Laura, Silver Ray and Gersey playing more subdued music using the traditional guitar/bass/drums structure; bands in this scene often played at inner-city venues such as the Punters Club and the Empress Hotel.


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16 Horsepower

A post-rock interpretation of "Black Soul Choir" sung by Brandy Bones became a live staple of Canadian band Big John Bates during their 2012 Battered Bones tour.

A Dog Called Ego

In Summer they recorded their debut album "Living Seriously Damages Health" in their own studio in Hamburg and it was described as the best alternative/Post Rock album of the last years by German Rock Hard Magazine.

A Final Storm

A Final Storm is the third studio album by Swedish post-rock band Khoma, released in 2010 by Selective Notes.

A Maze and Amazement

A Maze and Amazement is the debut album by New Zealand post-rock band The Enright House, released in May 2007, on A Low Hum Records.

Ágúst

Ágúst Ævar Gunnarsson, founding member of the Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós

Alexander Perls

While studying as an exchange student at University College London in 1997, Perls worked with the post-rock collective Piano Magic.

Autobody

All hail from (or subsequently joined) other arty post-rock/freeform acts like Caroliner, Dymaxion, Fly Ashtray, Job's Daughters, Wharton Tiers Ensemble, Flaming Fire, The Aerosols, Bare Flames, and Drumhead.

Bombhunters

Music was used from the popular Canadian post-rock band Godspeed You! Black Emperor.

Four Pests Campaign

The album Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun (2006) by US-American Post-Rock band Red Sparowes tells, by way of its song titles, the story of the Great Sparrow Campaign.

Giles Corey

British alternative/post-rock band I Like Trains has a song entitled "More Weight" about the execution of Corey.

Gybe

Godspeed You! Black Emperor, a Canadian post-rock band, commonly abbreviated to GY!

Immanu El

Immanu El (often typeset as IMMANU EL) is a Swedish Post-rock band from Jönköping.

Jeniferever / The Next Autumn Soundtrack

The Next Autumn Soundtrack & Jeniferever was a split EP recorded by post-rock bands Jeniferever and The Next Autumn Soundtrack, released on December 1, 2003.

KZFX

The station is currently owned by Post Rock Communications LLC and features programming from ABC Radio, California Headline News , Motor Racing Network (Sprint Cup Series), Classic Rock Live, Timewarp with Bill St. James and The Z 93-7 Classic Disc.

Peter Gzowski

Scottish post-rock band Mogwai use an audio recording of Gzowski's interview with Iggy Pop in the song "Punk Rock", the first song from their album Come on Die Young.

Rich Batsford

In 2007 Batsford collaborated with krautrock/shoegaze band Einstellung, for a concert in which Batsford both supported and accompanied the band, highlighting elements of post-rock shared by both artists.

Rodeo Massacre

Rodeo Massacre is the sixth album released by French post-rock band Ulan Bator.

Sparkle in Grey

In 2010 Black Fading records (of Disciplinatha's ex Singer Cristiano Santini) releases "Whale Heart, Whale Heart", a completely new attempt in the field of acoustic music, where the band collaborates with the pop/folk singer and post-rock artist Tex La Homa (Matt Shaw).

The Appleseed Cast

The band's predominantly guitar-based music has evolved from intense, heavy emo indebted to such acts as Mineral and Sunny Day Real Estate to a unique "post-rock" sound hinging on inventive, intricate drumming, subtle guitar arpeggios, and a vast range of effects.

The Fall of Math

The Fall of Math is the debut album by the instrumental post-rock band 65daysofstatic, released on September 20, 2004 through Monotreme.

The Ferry Boat Inn

Over the next few years the Ferry Boat became established as one of the most important venues for local bands, catering for all types of alternative music, with a leaning towards punk rock, ska punk, metal, hardcore and Post-rock.

The Union Trade

An early and leading member of the Bay Area post-rock scene, The Union Trade is also the founding band of San Francisco independent music label, Tricycle Records.

Designating themselves "cinematic post-rock," the band describes their sound as bridging the typically instrumental rock sounds of influences such as Mogwai, Explosions in the Sky, This Will Destroy You, with the highly effected guitar and vocal sounds of bands like The Appleseed Cast, Ride, Slowdive, and Swervedriver.

The Vulcan Dub Squad

This era saw the band take their sound from its very washy and ambient beginnings into more orchestrated pieces, relying on the whisper-to-a-scream methodology that was used by indie rockers like The Pixies and post-rock sound-sculptors such as Slint and Mogwai.