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, Electro-acoustic, Folk, Indie-pop??, Post Rock, Shoegaze, Singer Songwriter, indie, lo-fi 14 April 2009

There is still good in the world and this is a shining example of it.  The “Have A Good Night” Series has been around for a couple of years and is currently on it’s 4th compilation in support of Junior Solidarity.  With translation from the French site, I am not …

 Ambient, Americana, Down-Tempo, Folk, If You Haven't Heard, Indie Rock, New Album, Post Rock, Shoegaze, indie 30 March 2009

Sorry I have been remiss on the “If You Haven’t Heard” series here on Slowcoustic, but we have someone that you need to hear…if you haven’t heard.  It’s corny I know, but sometimes it is simply a fact, The Vega Star is a band you will want to hear.
The Vega …

 Ambient, Down-Tempo, Post Rock, Shoegaze 22 March 2009

So remember when I bitched out National Geographic for showing a ridiculous photo of a snowy Calgary, Alberta and titled it “Spring in Calgary” a few posts ago?  Well, I am here to “eat crow” and say that damn it, I woke up to snow everywhere…on the first weekend in …

 Ambient, Canadian, Electronic Beats, Instrumental, MySpace, New Album, Post Rock, Shoegaze, indie 5 March 2009

Montreal Quebec’s ambient power trio Torngat create majestic instrumental music that is at times as breathtaking as the glorious Quebec mountain range from whom they take their name. Torngat return with “La petite Nicole”, the follow up to the critically acclaimed 2007 effort, “You Could Be”. This time around the …

 Ambient, Canadian, Down-Tempo, New Album, Post Rock, Shoegaze, Singer Songwriter, indie 11 February 2009

Toronto singer-songwriter Barzin can be summed up quickly.  Not because there isn’t much there or because he is one dimensional.  It is because sometimes the musical persona is a persona in itself.  Quoted from Barzin’s own site the music is “Slow and melancholic, introspective and confessional”. This easily and quickly …

 Folk, MySpace, Post Rock, Shoegaze, Singer Songwriter, indie 27 October 2008

Some Monday listening for y’all today in the form of Joseph Murphy’s “Twin Cats“.  While Murphy is not new to creating and performing music, this is a bit of a new project for Murphy.  “Up North” as an album feels and listens like a transition to something new, a beginning …