One way to describe something that we’ve moved beyond is to affix the word “post” to it.
For example, if we want to talk about the era following the fall of the Soviet Union, that would be “post–Cold War.” If we’re studying everything that came after the cultural, political, and psychological vestiges of when countries like Britain and France conquered foreign lands, that’s “post-colonialism.”
There’s a certain section of the art world that’s called “postmodern.” This not only applies to painting and other visual art and literature, but also to disciplines like architecture. Frank Gehry was a postmodernist architect.
We also talk about “post-industrial societies,” “post-feminism,” “post-gender,” and even “post-internet.”
And then we get to music. There’s a lot of “post” stuff out there. “Post-punk” is the most common term—easy to figure out. It’s all the music the punk explosion encouraged to happen.
Post-hardcore is hardcore punk but with more emphasis on melody and experimentation with song structure. Post-disco is dance music born out of the disco boom of the late ’70s. And then there’s “post-rock.”
Oh, dear. That’s a tough one. This term implies that there is already something that has come after rock—but rock is still very much with us, so what’s “post” about it? This requires a substantial amount of deconstruction, and this is part two of our attempt to define “post-rock.”
Prepare to hear the future—again.
- Slint, Good Morning Captain
- Mogwai, Take Me Somewhere Nice
- Sigur Ros, Sven-g-englar
- Explosions in the Sky, Your Hand in Mine
- MONO, Follow the Map,
- Cult of Luna, Into the Night
- Broken Social Scene, 7/4 (Shoreline)
- Radiohead, Everything in Its Right Place.
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- FM96/London – Sunday nights at 8pm
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- 107-3 The Edge/Calgary – Sundays at 10am and 10pm
- Sonic 102.9/Edmonton – Sunday at 8am and 8pm
- The Zone/Victoria – Sunday at 8am and 9pm
- The Fox/Vancouver – Sundays at 10anm and 10pm
- The Goat Network/Interior BC
- Surge 105/Halifax – Sunday at 7pm
- WAPS/WKTL The Summit/Arkon, Canton, Cleveland, Youngstown – Mon-Fri at 9pm
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