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Metroschifter Links
Get
our music directly from us, on Apple iTunes, Amazon
Listen online at Last.fm in the US or Spotify in Europe.
Our own label: I Can't Believe It's a Record Company
Labels we have worked with: Noise Pollution, Doghouse
Records,
The
Slamdek Record Company, Initial
Records, Hometown
Caravan.
Related bands: VRKTM / Root Hog / Best Actress
Be our friend on MySpace - quick before it goes out of business
Chris Reinstatler runs a printing business for shirts, stickers, posters and more:
Monkey
Drive Screenprinting
Scott Ritcher ran for Kentucky State Senate in 2008: BallotRevolution.org
A diary of our first European tour was published in Hard Times Magazine in 1997
Contact us: party@metroschifter.com
User-edited and aggregate sites
YouTube - Flickr - Flickr (with Metroschifter spelled wrong)
Our Wikipedia page is blank. Knock yourself out!
Interviews and articles
Louisville
Music News
"We’ve half-assed our way through everything we’ve
ever done."
Annoyance
"what the hell is wrong with you?"
Artist
Direct
"a gentle blend of melodic indie rock and complex hardcore"
Louisville Hardcore
"Claudia Schiffer's band"
Velocity Weekly
"the audience is an afterthought"
Intro (in German)
"zelebrieren recht nervenaufreibenden Noise"
Reviews
Alternative Press
"[Metroschifter] explore a maddening array of musical genres"
"difficult to determine if this is the shape of rock to come or a tragic misstep"
LEO Weekly
"furious tracks built around mathematical precision"
"While craftsmen musically, Scott Ritcher’s lyrics leave much to be desired."
Louisville Music News
"a raw, energetic collision of tone-ripping guitar, punching drums and pain-swollen vocals...
There's a believable pain within the music that hasn't lost its sincerity in the group's 15 years"
PunkNews.org
"they almost never look or sound the same way twice"
Metromix Louisville
"Ritcher was always known to write what he feels which is what drew angsty, smartass teens to him."
Splendid Zine
"any
band that has the balls to organize a tribute to themselves
is more than deserving of pick status in my book"
Splendid Zine
"post-Hüsker rock, alternately desperate and sullen"
Juice
Magazine
"A well-deserved tribute to the Schifter. They have been
lurking the scene for years."
Impact
Press
"samples and live instruments that fly from rage to softness to downright
discordant"
Impact
Press
"indeed bad ass ... both spacious and gracious"
Delusions
of Adequacy
"straight out of Guns N Roses"
Ink
19
"as if Scott was temporarily a member of all the bands"
Ink
19
"just another guy with an acoustic guitar"
SBI
Generation
"This
song alone is well worth the purchase of the disc"
Fake
Jazz
"it's the same problem I've had with ... the other Metroschifter albums"
Chronique
(in French)
"puisque sur ce disque de Metroschifter, metroschifter ne
joue pas!?"
Kataweb
(in Italian)
"I Metroschifter rappresentano l'altra faccia di Lousiville"
Photos from show at Frontline in Gent, Belgium, in 1998
Lists
Live
Journal
Some kids who keep their diary online like our band
Audio
Scrobbler
Our stats from a computer program that keeps track
of how many times people listen to our songs at home
Billy
Joe Shaver
We covered his song "Old Chunk of Coal" on our Generation
Rx
album and it is listed on this page of his website
The
Covers Project
A database of artists and cover songs
#13
on KFJC FM 11/98
Los Altos Hills, California
#4
and #40 on KZSU FM 1/96
Stanford University, California
Friends
of Shellac
A project to find the identity of all the people listed
on Shellac's Friends album includes mentions of us
Amazon.com
Listmania
"Essential CDs linked to Louisville"
Interpunk
Users rank their favorite songs from Encapsulated
Dead links
Are we the only people who maintain a website around here?
Manatee
Bound
"I am fairly certain this has never been done before."
Agouti
Music
"I have never heard a song by Metroshifter ever in my life"
Lost
at Sea
"I can imagine Scott, the Hort and Pat sitting around drunk"
Teleport
City
"I've always admired Metroschifter's willingness to fuck
with people"
Ignition
"like nothing I’ve heard before"
Campaign
for Musical Destruction
"Metroschifter must be one of the laziest bands of all time"
Over
the Shoulder
"so damn inventive"
Pitchfork
Media
"I dreamed in the colors of thousands in the figures,
those which I enumerated"
Pitchfork
Media
"songs a handful of people learned to love"
Toledo
Entertainment
"more curveball dynamics in 1/3 of an hour than most of
their contemporaries would put in a friggin’ box set"
Milk
Magazine
"Overly serious"
Remor
"they want 3 or 4 people to learn all of their songs"
Seven
Five O
"Scott Ritcher is an interesting fellow"
Kristofer
Pasanen
Photographer
from Finland whose book "Identity Parade" includes
pictures of us playing in Sweden.
Howling
Bull Records (in Japanese)
The
label we're on in Japan
Music Diener/Ox Fanzine (in German)
Trust
(in German)
"Rauchen ist eine freie entscheidung, genau wie muffins."
Panorama
(in Norwegian)
"Metroschifter har i utgangspunktet holdt seg til
melodisk
og punkrock, men har også lenet seg over til såvell
singer/songwriter-musikk som country."
Lie
Paper
"members of the Louisville band Metroschifter, have joined forces once
again"
Stupid
Boy Brilliant Girl
"they start laughing about the metroschifter poster i have"
Favourite
Concerts of 1998
Honorable mention under "other interesting gigs."
Spun
Buy and sell used Metroschifter CDs
#13
on WUSB FM 10/00
University at Stony Brook, New York
Utopia
#206 in their online poll
#6 on Top 19 albums recorded by Bob Weston
76
of My Favorite Records
"This record is such a man it has 2 sets of nuts."
Everything
Is Connected
According to this, Metroschifter and Courtney Love are related
Star
Net Central
A
directory book of celebrities' addresses which includes Metroschifter
Song
Lyrics World
Large lyric database includes many Metroschifter songs
#3
on WBUQ FM 10/00
Bloomsburg University, Pennsylvania
PEOPLE WHO AREN'T US BUT USE OUR NAME (all dead links):
Sebastias: a Canadian who uses our name
Mobius: another person who uses our name
Metroschifter.org: a guy in California
Metroschifter.de: a guy in Germany
THIS PAGE UPDATED 13 OCTOBER 2009