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Tortoise - Tortoise's almost entirely instrumental music defies easy categorization, and the group gained significant attention from their early career. The members have roots in Chicago's fertile music scene, playing in various indie rock and punk groups. Tortoise was among the first American indie rock bands to incorporate styles closer to krautrock,...

Thrill Jockey Bands Cover Each Other On Boxed Set - Thrill Jockey bands old and new have recorded songs for a boxed set to celebrate the Chicago label's 15th birthday. Bands were asked to choose a song to cover by any other act on the roster; the results will appear Dec. 4 on nine 7-inch vinyl singles. The box is notable...

A Review of Mogwai's The Hawk is Howling -

The Hawk is Howling is a fantastic addition to Mogwai's catalogue that re-establishes them as the leaders of Post-Rock, while also tackling new territory.

Mogwai were the band that brought instrumental music out of sneering, hipster-run art spaces - you know the ones where "damaged" has a positive connotation - and...

Trans Am - Trans Am are loosely associated with the mid-'90s post-rock scene centered around Tortoise, UI, Labradford, Windy & Carl, etc., and the Thrill Jockey, Kranky, UHF and Southern labels, among others. Although a vast distance separates Trans Am's albums, all of them are concerned with an extreme, somewhat humorous reorientation of...

Godspeed You! Black Emperor Split - Post-rock archetypes Godspeed You! Black Emperor, citing an "existential freakout" over the Iraq war as the reason for their demise. Speaking to Drowned In Sound, founder Efrin Menuck went into detail on the split, revealing that personal tensions may also have contributed. ...

Kiernan Hebden of Four Tet, Naughty By Nature Tonight - Kiernan Hebden of electronica-friendly band Four Tet will be at the WFC Winter Garden tonight at 9 p.m. with Steve Reid for free. Their music is pretty conceptual, with elements of jazz, hip-hop, and of course electronica. Also for free tonight: Nineties hip-hop group Naught By Nature. They're at Queensbridge Park...

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