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Edb: Expand the comprehensive music catalogue with reviewed distinct performances; prioritize recent discovery, retain good older music and preserve existing prose, recordings and fields.

2026-10-22T10:51:55Z

Expand the comprehensive music catalogue with reviewed distinct performances; prioritize recent discovery, retain good older music and preserve existing prose, recordings and fields.

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Edb: Add canonical MuGlobe favorite, current-hit and authentic fields to all recording links; preserve existing music and article content

2026-10-22T02:33:31Z

Add canonical MuGlobe favorite, current-hit and authentic fields to all recording links; preserve existing music and article content

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	! Artist !! Performance / song / title !! Embedded player URL !! Notes		! Artist !! Performance / song / title !! Embedded player URL !! Notes !! Repertoire kind !! Repertoire date !! Recording date !! Format !! Opening !! Places !! Fit !! Evidence !! Review note !! MuGlobe favorite !! Current hit !! Authentic
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	\| Mogwai \|\| Mogwai Fear Satan — The Quay Sessions \|\| https://www.youtube.com/embed/qul79MsOfog \|\| BBC’s extended performance gives the piece room to develop through repetition, texture and dynamic contrast.<ref name="performance-post-rock-1">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qul79MsOfog Mogwai — Mogwai Fear Satan — The Quay Sessions]. YouTube recording; metadata checked 2026-10-18.</ref>		\| Mogwai \|\| Mogwai Fear Satan — The Quay Sessions \|\| https://www.youtube.com/embed/qul79MsOfog \|\| BBC’s extended performance gives the piece room to develop through repetition, texture and dynamic contrast.<ref name="performance-post-rock-1">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qul79MsOfog Mogwai — Mogwai Fear Satan — The Quay Sessions]. YouTube recording; metadata checked 2026-10-18.</ref> \|\| unknown \|\| unknown \|\| unknown \|\| unknown \|\| unknown \|\| unknown \|\| pending \|\| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qul79MsOfog Existing recording] \|\| Legacy accepted recording retained during curation-field migration; no new age or geographic claims. \|\| <muglobe-flag video="qul79MsOfog" field="muglobeFavorite" /> \|\| <muglobe-flag video="qul79MsOfog" field="currentHit" /> \|\| <muglobe-flag video="qul79MsOfog" field="authentic" />
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	\| Explosions in the Sky \|\| Your Hand in Mine — Outline at Knockdown Center \|\| https://www.youtube.com/embed/pW4UKWE8vaA \|\| The venue’s concert recording presents interlocking instrumental guitar writing, a contrasting North American strand of post-rock.<ref name="performance-post-rock-2">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW4UKWE8vaA Explosions in the Sky — Your Hand in Mine — Outline at Knockdown Center]. YouTube recording; metadata checked 2026-10-18.</ref>		\| Explosions in the Sky \|\| Your Hand in Mine — Outline at Knockdown Center \|\| https://www.youtube.com/embed/pW4UKWE8vaA \|\| The venue’s concert recording presents interlocking instrumental guitar writing, a contrasting North American strand of post-rock.<ref name="performance-post-rock-2">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW4UKWE8vaA Explosions in the Sky — Your Hand in Mine — Outline at Knockdown Center]. YouTube recording; metadata checked 2026-10-18.</ref> \|\| unknown \|\| unknown \|\| unknown \|\| unknown \|\| unknown \|\| unknown \|\| pending \|\| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW4UKWE8vaA Existing recording] \|\| Legacy accepted recording retained during curation-field migration; no new age or geographic claims. \|\| <muglobe-flag video="pW4UKWE8vaA" field="muglobeFavorite" /> \|\| <muglobe-flag video="pW4UKWE8vaA" field="currentHit" /> \|\| <muglobe-flag video="pW4UKWE8vaA" field="authentic" />
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Edb: Add sourced representative performance playlist; preserve article prose and hotspot mushrooms

2026-10-18T18:02:35Z

Add sourced representative performance playlist; preserve article prose and hotspot mushrooms

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	== Artists ==		== Artists ==
	Tortoise's 'Millions Now Living Will Never Die' offers a route into layered rhythm and instrumental organization. Godspeed You! Black Emperor's early albums reveal another relationship between recorded fragments, long-form development and collective ensemble weight. Mogwai provides a different approach to guitar dynamics, while Explosions in the Sky makes melodic interplay especially accessible. Japanese group MONO opens a further adopted history. Compare the internal movement of a piece rather than assuming that every band follows the same emotional script or that every long instrumental rock composition belongs here.		Tortoise's 'Millions Now Living Will Never Die' offers a route into layered rhythm and instrumental organization. Godspeed You! Black Emperor's early albums reveal another relationship between recorded fragments, long-form development and collective ensemble weight. Mogwai provides a different approach to guitar dynamics, while Explosions in the Sky makes melodic interplay especially accessible. Japanese group MONO opens a further adopted history. Compare the internal movement of a piece rather than assuming that every band follows the same emotional script or that every long instrumental rock composition belongs here.

			== Representative performances ==
			These recordings offer listening examples of the genre. Notes identify the performance setting and any adaptation or mixed repertoire.

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			\| Mogwai \|\| Mogwai Fear Satan — The Quay Sessions \|\| https://www.youtube.com/embed/qul79MsOfog \|\| BBC’s extended performance gives the piece room to develop through repetition, texture and dynamic contrast.<ref name="performance-post-rock-1">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qul79MsOfog Mogwai — Mogwai Fear Satan — The Quay Sessions]. YouTube recording; metadata checked 2026-10-18.</ref>
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			\| Explosions in the Sky \|\| Your Hand in Mine — Outline at Knockdown Center \|\| https://www.youtube.com/embed/pW4UKWE8vaA \|\| The venue’s concert recording presents interlocking instrumental guitar writing, a contrasting North American strand of post-rock.<ref name="performance-post-rock-2">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW4UKWE8vaA Explosions in the Sky — Your Hand in Mine — Outline at Knockdown Center]. YouTube recording; metadata checked 2026-10-18.</ref>
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	== Related genres ==		== Related genres ==
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Edb: Create researched genre article and inferred regional musical landscapes; Ed’s approved authoring method

2026-10-18T01:38:09Z

Create researched genre article and inferred regional musical landscapes; Ed’s approved authoring method

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== Summary ==
Post-rock uses resources familiar from a rock band to pursue forms and textures that may not organize themselves around a lead singer or a conventional verse and chorus. Guitar, bass and drums can become parts of a slowly changing soundscape, a repeated rhythmic structure or a carefully developed instrumental narrative. The category is broad and has been applied to very different music. A long crescendo is one recognizable device, but reducing the genre to quiet passages followed by loud ones obscures its work with timbre, repetition, improvisation and recorded space.

== Contemporary and trending ==
The music continues through independent labels, specialist touring, home recording and bands that connect with ambient, electronic, experimental and heavier audiences. Instrumental pieces can travel across language boundaries while retaining meaningful local histories. Online circulation has enlarged discovery, but rehearsal rooms and regional performance circuits remain important to how ensembles develop. New artists may work with familiar build-and-release forms or question them entirely. Contemporary post-rock is consequently a set of creative practices and audience networks rather than the unchanged sound of a short list of 1990s groups.

== History ==
The term gained wider use during the 1990s as critics tried to describe bands reorganizing the purposes of rock instrumentation. Earlier experimental work, including later Talk Talk and other less easily classified recordings, provided reference points. Chicago, Montréal, Britain and other scenes developed different approaches rather than a single common template. Tortoise brought together resources associated with dub, jazz, minimalism and electronics, while Godspeed You! Black Emperor developed a different long-form collective language. Label histories make those contrasting working environments visible without resolving every boundary dispute. <ref name="tortoise-label">[https://www.thrilljockey.com/artists/tortoise?appsule=56 Thrill Jockey — Tortoise].</ref> <ref name="godspeed-label">[https://cstrecords.com/pages/artist/godspeed-you-black-emperor Constellation — Godspeed You! Black Emperor].</ref>

== Musical characteristics ==
Listen for gradual changes in density, register and the role of repetition. A short figure may remain stable while another instrument adds a counterline or changes the perceived harmony. Percussion can establish a danceable groove, a nearly mechanical pulse or an irregular conversational texture. Vibraphone, strings, samples and electronic processing may join guitars without serving as decoration around a song. Some pieces invite listeners to follow a long dynamic arc; others make small changes the main event. The relationship among parts explains more than duration alone.

== Geography and communities ==
The Great Lakes and northeastern North American worlds connect Chicago, Montréal and surrounding communities through labels, touring and audiences while retaining distinctive local histories. Britain and continental Europe form further substantial networks, and Japanese musicians have developed sustained adopted approaches. Broad fields represent these creative and listening landscapes more usefully than isolated studio addresses. They do not imply that instrumental music has no social setting: record shops, local venues, political commitments and collective ways of working can matter even when a piece carries little or no sung text.

== Artists ==
Tortoise's 'Millions Now Living Will Never Die' offers a route into layered rhythm and instrumental organization. Godspeed You! Black Emperor's early albums reveal another relationship between recorded fragments, long-form development and collective ensemble weight. Mogwai provides a different approach to guitar dynamics, while Explosions in the Sky makes melodic interplay especially accessible. Japanese group MONO opens a further adopted history. Compare the internal movement of a piece rather than assuming that every band follows the same emotional script or that every long instrumental rock composition belongs here.

== Related genres ==
[[Ambient]] and [[Downtempo]] share some interests in texture and duration, while [[Indie rock]] provides important institutional connections. [[Progressive rock]] also expands form but carries different historical expectations and conventions. [[Shoegaze]] can overlap through sustained guitar surfaces. The prefix post describes a historical critical category, not a claim that rock ended or that this music represents a higher stage of development. <ref name="gm-post-rock">[https://www.allmusic.com/style/post-rock-ma0000002790 AllMusic — Post-Rock].</ref>

=== References and further reading ===
<references />

== Hotspot mushrooms ==
Post-rock’s geography is a set of connected independent instrumental-music worlds, with distinct Great Lakes/Montréal, British, continental and Japanese histories. Broad fields include audiences and musicians between landmark label cities rather than treating each studio as an isolated listening island.

These fields are editorial illustrations of musical affinity and cultural reach, not listener statistics. Radius marks the zero edge of the fade; overlapping fields of this genre combine by maximum.

{| class="wikitable muglobe-hotspots"
|+ MuGlobe hotspot mushrooms
! ID !! Location !! Latitude !! Longitude !! Radius (km) !! Strength !! Notes

|-
| post-rock-great-lakes || Great Lakes instrumental and experimental-rock circuits || 42 || -86 || 1300 || 0.95 || Chicago and surrounding communities form a regional world beyond a label address.

|-
| post-rock-northeast || Montréal and northeastern North American experimental circuits || 45 || -73 || 1300 || 0.9 || A connected regional audience and musician landscape with a distinct Montréal history.

|-
| post-rock-britain || British post-rock and experimental-band circuits || 54 || -3 || 1100 || 0.85 || Includes Scottish and other regional worlds beyond southern English recording centers.

|-
| post-rock-continental || Continental European post-rock circuits || 50 || 10 || 1500 || 0.75 || Broad adopted local-band, label and touring networks.

|-
| post-rock-japan || Japanese post-rock landscapes || 36 || 137 || 1200 || 0.82 || Domestic musicians and listeners sustain a substantial adopted regional culture.

|}