Postcard From Hell

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Líder: scourtney
Política de associação: Aberta
Criado em: 22 Dez 2004
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For members of the Postcard From Hell mailing list....and other people that should be on the mailing list.

www.postcardfromhell.com

What Is The Postcard Community?

Back in the dark days of dialup and baud rates - aka the early 1990s - the Postcard From Hell mailing list was started as an online meeting place for fans, friends and followers of Belleville, Illinois alt.country stalwarts Uncle Tupelo. Taking its name from the band's song "Postcard," the digital community continued onward after Uncle Tupelo's split in 1994 with keen interest in the successive careers of Jeff Tweedy (Wilco) and Jay Farrar (Son Volt.)

Fifteen years on, the list not only survived but has grown miles beyond people trading live tapes and talking about the band that inspired it.

Like Uncle Tupelo's very essence —not quite punk rock, not quite country, enough classic rock influence, folk traditions in the mix, and plenty more bubbling up— the Postcard from Hell community is a true music fan mélange.

Postcard from Hell is not a bunch of music snobs but is a collective that knows what it likes and why it likes it: not that everyone ever agrees wholly. There's always passion in every post.

Currently boasting 1500+ members strong, it's a hive of talk centering on all kinds of music past and present. Of course, Son Volt, Wilco and Uncle Tupelo still come up plenty but so might Spoon, the Smiths, Seger & Silver Bullet, Slayer or Bessie Smith.

There's discovery here, too.

Postcard from Hell has been instrumental in helping point toward the future. Buzz from "Postcarders" —through album and show reviews posted to the list— has led many others to find great new music and proven concurrent with the increased power of the internet for bringing awareness to bands on the rise. Postcard from Hell has been a place to champion many great artists early on. Some of them might not know it (Neko Case, the Arcade Fire, Midlake) but there's plenty who do (Two Cow Garage, Centro-matic, Glossary) and will tell you so.

Sometimes even the barrage of music talk subsides and as Paul Westerberg and the Replacements —another one of Postcard From Hell's totemic artists— once examined: idleness can make one shiftless. You have to keep moving!

Thusly, in between the rarely capsizing waves of music talk, Postcard from Hell's conversations veer across the boards heavy with pop culture fun and arcana, food and drink, sports, tech talk, current events, advice and every other friggin' topic under the sun.

All in all, Postcard (or PC as it's often referred to by it's denizens) has proven to be a place where people from all over the planet have taken one minute common thread and turned it something well beyond that. It's a lot more like a backyard beer blast with a loud stereo and stash of good records than it is a bunch of people sending emails.

It's helped expand global and localized music scenes, been the starting place for life-long friendships and even a handful of marriages and occasionally raised quizzical looks and quips of disinterest and distaste from both Farrar and Tweedy. Not bad for a bunch of monkeys typing!
-Donny Kutzbach 2007

www.postcardfromhell.com

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freeloosedirt

I'm not sure why this group makes me want to "do the wiggins" whatever that is.

agosto 2010
Debaser987

Exactly my question: who are you people? I keep on finding my way back to this group. Guess I'll join the mailing list.

março 2010
watthead

Who are you people and where's my horse?

fevereiro 2010
RandyB1961

You guys might enjoy my new group, Americana Artist Of the Week. http://www.last.fm/group/Americana+Artist+Of+The+Week

janeiro 2010
ekesner

Anyone else a fan of The Star Room Boys? A band out of Athens. I think one of the most underrated bands of the past 10 - 15 yrs.

julho 2009
k-fly

ALT COUNTRY

abril 2009
jjBASS

http://www.last.fm/music/9th+Rail My band - alt-country with some indie thrown in, son volt and uncle tupelo are among our major influences

fevereiro 2009
caninemanifesto

you're humbly invited to check out my band--the only alt-country band in poland: http://www.last.fm/music/Gasoline/Well+Hid+Bones

dezembro 2008
scourtney

don't forget to join the mailing list at www.postcardfromhell.com

julho 2008
scourtney

wanna make it two, douchey?

julho 2008
bpfastball

How did *one* person manage to get banned from the PCFH LastFM group? Jesus, what the hell did he do?

maio 2008
tadmaster

I hope it's cool that I posted my Tom Waits journal here. I'm new to the groups feature, so I'm not sure about the etiquette of these things. I plan to make this a 'series', and [i]Yankee Hotel Foxtrot[/i] is on my to-do list. :) Cheers!

abril 2008
truetolife

Download the Dexateens new album Lost and Found for FREE (legal download), they're opening up a few shows for the Truckers and Patterson has produced one of their albums. http://www.skybucket.com/media/dexateens

março 2008
edgehill

I'd like to invite you all to check out my band, Edgehill Ave. alt.country, roots-rock, Americana...something like that. Also found on omnipresent myspace...www.myspace.com/edgehillave

julho 2007