Post-rock and more

This page will show people who are interested in post-rock where to start listening...

• see this last.fm account for one example
• for results of other rock genre, see: category: Rock music popularity

last.fm

Here's a comparison for some last.fm groups:

last.fm group	members
Post Rock Community	1049
Post-Rock Instrumental	4571
AFTER THE POST ROCK	8195
_postrock	61
Post-Rock.ro	52
As the night passes to dawn, we listen to post-rock	358
Post-rock lovers from Russia & other neighbouring countries	130
Post Rock and Experimental music from Russia and ex USSR	872
sum:	15288

results

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  35 characteristic artists (from 112 artists)

the top characteristic artists are:

artist	twitter	plays on last.fm	listeners on last.fm	average play per listener	my plays on last.fm
65daysofstatic	@65dos	18,282,253	354,339	51.6
Maybeshewill	@mybshwll	5,083,829	136,298	37.3	1
Russian Circles	@russiancircband	4,968,868	183,298	27.1
Mogwai	@mogwaiband	39,048,190	860,292	45.4
The American Dollar		3,946,520	134,303	29.4
This Will Destroy You		7,086,391	289,218	24.5	1
Mono		9,170,352	407,377	22.5
pg.lost	@pglost	1,563,413	104,377	15
God Is an Astronaut		24,397,012	415,504	58.7
If These Trees Could Talk		2,735,191	117,391	23.3

history

• 2011-11-11: updated + added 2 new groups
  • 2 new bands are now also in top list:
    • Caspian
    • If These Trees Could Talk
• 2011-11-29: add one more last.fm group
  • 2 bands moved out of top list: Caspian + Explosions in the Sky
  • one new entry: pg.lost

background

• I'll add more last.fm groups in the future...
  • please suggest some groups which will fit into this analysis, thx
• you can use this last.fm tool also for generating: group artist matcher
• this is part of the series: group artist matcher

see also

external

• 2011-11-11: Noticias a la mano (Chile) mentions this post-rock analysis in section headlines
• comments (last.fm)

internal wiki

• category: Rock music popularity
• category: Music
• category: Last.fm