Ambient, Featured, Folk, New Album 11 February 2010

The Abramson Singers, Slow Six and Laura Gibson & Ethan Rose get nods via a track from each of their respective recently released albums.

 Ambient, Best New Music, Featured, Folk, Instrumental, New Album, Video, indie 29 January 2010

…new album from Western Vinyl’s resident instrumental alt folk group Balmorhea. Atmospheric and beautiful at is minimum, epic and jaw-dropping at it’s most.

 Ambient, Down-Tempo, Featured, Folk, Song of the Day, indie 10 January 2010

Their music is described as “post folk” or “alt-folk” but I simply call it stunning. There are aspects of acoustic and electric in their sound – like a cello backing a gently picked electric guitar…

 Ambient, Covers, Electro-acoustic, Featured, Folk, Singer Songwriter, Video, lo-fi 21 November 2009

Well this one is actually safe for work and is not the quickie some visitors might have been looking for when googling and finding yourself here.  This is a quickie because I am currently in transition with home computers, waiting for delivery guys to deliver some furniture and hence I …

 Ambient, Electro-acoustic, Featured, Folk, MySpace, New Album, Shoegaze, Singer Songwriter, indie 4 November 2009

Sleep Whale are from North Texas and could be considered a bit of an amalgamation of shoegaze, folk, psychedelic, noise-art are definitely and interesting crew and I am finding myself oddly drawn to it.

 Ambient, Electro-acoustic, Folk, Freak Folk, Free EP/LP, MySpace, New Album, Singer Songwriter, Video 24 October 2009

Artist/Music submissions come fast and furious at times and it is hard to keep up being the solo person around Slowcoustic HQ.  Why even mention this?  Because it’s my blog damnit!  No just kidding – I am wanting to let you all know about a project that showed up in …

 Ambient, Post Rock, Ramblings, Shoegaze, Site news 20 August 2009

So just a quick status check on the goings on for yours truly.  I know you are all waiting with baited breath on my daily life.  Come on, don’t you feel like we need a connection?  Whatever, well lets look ahead to what is going on around here.
I am working …

 Ambient, Down-Tempo, Instrumental, MySpace 9 August 2009

I just wanted to say I am sitting here mouth agape.  Amiina does that.
I haven’t been on the band wagon (no pun intended) for very long and I didn’t find them myself – I believe it was the lovely Agnes over at It All Started With Carbon Monoxide who introduced …