Scott Ritcher of the Metroschifter 
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Email your Metroschifter links to: party@metroschifter.com
INTERVIEWS & 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"
REVIEWS:
Mega
Music Reviews
"they almost never look or sound the same way twice"
Manatee
Bound
"I am fairly certain this has never been done before."
Splendid
"any
band that has the balls to organize a tribute to themselves..."
Splendid
"post-Hüsker rock"
Agouti
Music
"I have never heard a song by Metroshifter ever in my life"
Juice
Magazine
"A well-deserved tribute to the Schifter. They have been
lurking the scene for years."
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"
Impact
Press
"samples and live instruments that fly from rage to softness to downright
discordant"
Impact
Press
"indeed bad ass ... both spacious and gracious"
Campaign
for Musical Destruction
"Metroschifter must be one of the laziest bands of all time"
Over
the Shoulder
"so damn inventive"
Delusions
of Adequacy
"straight out of Guns N Roses"
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"
Ink
19
"as if Scott was temporarily a member of all the bands"
Ink
19
"just another guy with an acoustic guitar"
Ink
19
listing all of Ink 19's references to Metroschifter
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"
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"
Lie
Paper
"members of the Louisville band Metroschifter, have joined forces once
again"
PICTURES:
1998: Frontline in Gent, Belgium
Kristofer
Pasanen
Photographer
from Finland whose book "Identity Parade" includes
pictures of us playing in Sweden.
IN OTHER LANGUAGES:
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."
Chronique
(in French)
"puisque sur ce disque de Metroschifter, metroschifter ne
joue pas!?"
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."
PEOPLE WHO AREN'T US BUT USE OUR NAME:
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
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 (Metroschifter) (Scott
Ritcher)
A database of artists and cover songs
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
#13
on KFJC FM 11/98
Los Altos Hills, California
#4
and #40 on KZSU FM 1/96
Stanford University, California
#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
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
Spun
Buy and sell used Metroschifter CDs
Favourite
Concerts of 1998
We got an honorable mention under "other interesting gigs."
OTHER:
Stupid
Boy Brilliant Girl
"they start laughing about the metroschifter poster i have"