BearsPlayPostRock

Bears love post rock. It’s probably an almost certain fact. I love post rock. The chances are if you’re here you probably have some sort of affinity for post rock too. https://www.facebook.com/bearsplaypostrock

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Bliss time

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Periodic table of post-rock

Am sure half these bands hate being categorised like this, but there is something inherently awesome about this pic that absolutely fits the genre.

Kudos to whoever put it together.

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Halo - Winning track from Lavinia (including members of Caspian and Eksi Ekso) This is top banana stuff right here!!

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An awesome LP Release/concert by Immanu El this Wednesday (29th May) at Bio Roy in Gothenburg. Here's a translation:

We'd love to invite you to an evening of concert and release party at Bio Roy. During the evening invites Pripp Blue and My 50 m2 on something to drink and eat, it will be concerts with us and our label mates in Halo Of Pendor and an after party at the coffee bar at Yaki-Da, where we play records and celebrate with you the rest of the evening.

The event is arranged for a closed group and is only for those who accept this invitation and register via the link below. Places are limited and it is first come first served. Come early to ensure entry.

More INFO + RSVP on http://www.immanu-el.com/inbjudanroy/

NOTE! Registration for the guest list is valid only through the link above.

Sounds absolutely awesome!!!

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Explosions In The Sky, Mogwai And Sigur Rós Have Post-Rock Euphoria

Over the past two decades, a curious musical insurgency has raged on the outermost fringes of the international music scene. Dubbed "post-rock," this burgeoning movement was pioneered by ambitious bands who largely discarded vocals and traditional verse-chorus structures in favor of euphoria-inducing song cycles. Now, eccentric outliers such as Canada's Godspeed You!

The Grammys are acknowledging post-rock!!! About 10 years too late but hey, better than nothing.

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Lungfish - Black Helicopters - Artificial Horizon Drawing you in, like a breath in the wind

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Stream The Appleseed Cast: Illumination Ritual on Pitchfork Advance

The Appleseed Cast's eighth full-length Illumination Ritual is out April 23 via Graveface. It's the Lawrence, Kan., post-rock band's first LP since 2009's Sagarmatha.

Fricking awesomeeeeeee!!!

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In no way is this post-rock but it is the entirety of The Postal Service's Coachella set from last night. Sweeeeeeeeeet......

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Here's the link to this sweet BBC doc, presenter grates a little but still great to see some bonafide exposure from a couple of years ago.

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Proper acoustic version of untitled 4/Nothing Song/Njosnavelin. Pretty darn awesome. Also, check out the BBC culture show piece on them that this comes from.

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Sigur Rós - Brennisteinn

  Was suitably surprised and impressed with this new track by Sigur Ros. Reminded me very much of their Von-era. New album, Kveikur, is out in June and if this is anything to go by, it will be another shift away from the album before it. Also read that they are down to a threesome now after multi-instrumentalist Kjartan Sveinsson departed. I hope it doesn't impact the scale or ambition of their music production and performance as this is one of the things I adore about the band. Guess we'll find out on the new album.

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Explosions In The Sky - Last Known Surroundings

Ok, so I've gone a little poster mental recently. Seems like the US get the majority of amazing posters for gigs, guess that means they have a shedload of great local artists. Well, I thought Kevin Tong's posters were unsurpassable, with the Mogwai and Appleseed Cast ones just knocking me out of the park, then I came across this absolutely stellar poster for an Explosions In The Sky gig in Minneapolis by DKNG studios. Then, THEN, I found a video of one half of that team (Dan Kuhlken I think) actually drawing and designing the thing!! How ace is that?!! Anyway, please enjoy the video as much as I did, paired alongside, in my opinion EITS' stand out track from 2011's Take Care, Take Care, Take Care. Link to their site: http://www.dkngstudios.com/ 

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The Appleseed Cast - View Of A Burning City

This is another from the plethora of magnificent posters that Kevin Tong produces, and it really blew me away. Giant eagle being constructed/hewn from rock! What’s not to like right?! I happen to think it’s pretty ominous, like almost in a War of the Worlds kinda way (GIANT EAGLE!!!) and tend to associate it with this equally barnstorming number.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxW2TJOAmtM  (track in link above or in post below) 

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The Appleseed Cast - View Of A Burning City

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Curve - Deerhunter This is a beautiful ambient track by Deerhunter, and totally different to what I'd heard from them previously. I came across it on an album titled "We Are The Works In Progress", which was exactly what it sounded like, a collection of tracks under development, from a selection of artists. Well worth a listen if that kind of thing's your cup of tea. It directed me to their back catalogue in the search for more ambient gems, in the hope they haven't all been abandoned as tracks for another, slightly more solemn day.

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A quite frankly astonishingly great Mogwai poster by Kevin Tong, from one of their LA gigs. Check out the rest of this guys work, it's phenomenal. http://tragicsunshine.tumblr.com/

http://tragicsunshine.com/ 

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Mogwai: A beginners guide Just saw this pretty awesome article flash up on my wall, fans of Mogwai recommending 10 tracks as an introduction to the band, for those uneducated in terms such as "Glasgow Megasnake" and "Moses? I Amn't".

The article is run by the Guardian newspaper (about twelve years too late, most of the tracks are 2001 or earlier) and there's some choice stuff involved. But I wonder just how many of these are genuine keepers, how many would make most fans top 10? There are at least 4 or 5 tracks not on this list that I would have to find some room for in my own selection. And also, an emphasis on their first couple of albums - is it fair? I thought 2008's Hawk is Howling was cracking, but just the one track from it. Here's a link to the playlist of the top 10 also. Kudos to journalist Adam Boult for the Mogwai time though.