Also this issue: Mount Vernon Blues Label hassles and sonic shifts can’t stop GFS Productions from duly appointed drum and bass rounds. -A.D. Amorosi Review: Anner Bylsma -Peter Burwasser Bella Morte -Helen Thompson Dave Burrell -Kyle Parker Ladytron -Paul Burress Four Tenors -Kyle Parker The Blood Brothers -A.D. Amorosi Joe McPhee/William Parker/ Harold Smith -Kyle Parker

February 13-19, 2003

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The Post

If This Heat was the dad of plush shoe-gazing drones, rhythmic-feedback-freakishness and tattered orchestral loops, The Post (as in "after") would be its bastard son. Damn kids. This Indiana trio -- your standard bass/guitar/drums with miles of tape loop hanging out of their pockets -- shies away from computer-generated sequences and programmed beats to create an insular organic tribal vibe with grand and treacly textures. That they make songs, as opposed to tracks, on their debut EP Letting the Signals Fade (request "Paper Thin Surprises"), their new first full-length Backwards (ask for "Fear of Numbers") and an already-ready next CD shows that they have the musical chops to back up the experimental elan and restless spirit. Still, it's their hurricane-eye arrangements -- the odd ratio of band to loop-based sample -- that'll blow your head back.

Sun., Feb. 16, 9 p.m., $6, with Earlimart, American Altitude and Like Moving Insects, The Khyber, 56 S. Second St., 215-238-5888.

—A.D. Amorosi