So what’s worst than finding what could be your next favourite band and then having no way to connect to them?  Well there are worse things, but as a musician/artist/band if you are not available (and want to be) and you don’t have a website set up – you might as well just stay in your basement by yourself.

Okay a bit harsh, but it’s true.  If you are actually trying to grow your career or if you simply want to get your music out there (and to great people like me!) a brand new shiny website and web presence is what you need.  Well, the good folks over at Kilted Chaos have a bit of a contest to provide all this to you.  It involves twitter so if you have to follow and tweet so if this sounds foreign to you…well, climb out from under the rock and get online.  What is 10 minutes of almost effort in order to get a full year of exposure to your fans, or your potential fans.  This is the plan.

Click the pic above or HERE in order to read a bit about it and get started on entering the contest.  It is starting tomorrow!

“More Exposures” – Elephant Micah, from Alsatian Sunlight (full album available free here)

~Smansmith

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Shirts…you know how it goes.  We all need ‘em (some more so than others), so why not have them?  They protect you from dangerous UVA/UVB radiation from our ever growing sun, they cover unsightly lesions and they are one half of the requirements to receive service in many retail establishments.  But, why not have one from your favourite acoustic slowcore blog?  Now, we’re talking.

I got a shirt to give away to whomever answers the below question.  It is an easy question and it pertains to my post on The Black Atlantic (find it yourself) – and the question is:

What are the three bands/artists that I described as having similarities and “recommended if you like”?

If you are the 3rd person to email me (Admin@slowcoustic.com), you get a shirt (we have a selection of sizes and ladies or men’s, so don’t fret).  The first and second emails get the opportunity to simply buy one…>gasp<

“The T-Shirt Song” – from Trees Leave, live for Luxury Wafers (see session HERE)

~Smansmith

**EDIT – Contest closed, ladies and gentlemen we have a winner!**

So I happen to have an extra copy of the re-release of the Sharon Van Etten debut CD.  Long story (not really) about having two, but the end result is that you readers are benefiting from it.   The story goes…

Yours truly orders a CD once they were available and SVE sends it out with love.  Well sometimes mail gets a bit dodgy going internationally and said CD takes an extended tour through somewhere that isn’t Calgary (where I live).  SVE kindly emails yours truly to see if said CD has arrived, yours truly replied “still waiting” on said CD.

Low and behold about 5 days after advising SVE of no dice on the CD, it goes and shows up!  I rejoiced and immediately ripped it and listened until satiated.  Then, yours truly does not advise SVE of arrival of the bundle of joy and then about 5 days after this another CD arrives.  ANOTHER CD you say!!  Yes, I now have two copies of this beautiful, raw, angelic and hauntingly stark album.  So yours truly feels bad that SVE has sent two CDs and now I must in turn give forth to the community, which is you dear readers.  I am “passing it forward” as that horrible atrocity of a movie of which I steal the phrase taught me.

So, to get the CD, you have to jump through hoops and show me you care and are a supporter of SVE.  In order to even be considered, you have to:

1. Already be a “friend” on MySpace
2. Follow on Twitter (come on, how hard is this one)
3. Provide photographic proof of being at her concert (ticket stub)

If you do not qualify for any of the above 3 items, too bad – get a computer and show love or hit a show (of which she has a schwack of them upcoming with Great Lake Swimmers and even a one each with Meg Baird and Julie Sokolow!).  You also have to then answer a question and be the third person to reply to ADMIN@SLOWCOUSTIC.COM.  Don’t worry about shipping and all that, I will ship to anywhere in the world that accepts mail complimentary.

Question: What 70s/80s/90s/00′s band does Sharon reference in her personal blog web address?

Purchase the above self titled CD here and while you are at it pick up her spectacular new album “Because I Was in Love” at iTunes or at Language of Stone.

“For You” – Sharon Van Etten – Sharon Van Etten (also on “Because I Was in Love”)

Visit Sharon Van Etten on her Website, MySpace and Twitter.

~Smansmith