Month: August 2008
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Just couldn’t resist – Horse Feathers
Regardless of saying I was not going to post these next few days, I had to share a track from Horse Feathers. I have chosen this track as it might just be the best track on the new album, but you won’t realize until you listen to it many times. Not traditional HF, but it…
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Hoquiam (2008?)
Just a mini post today, just because I didn’t get to due to the “guest blogger” situation below. I better get used to this as she may be a regular contributor to the ol spot on the web… I just had to post on this as I have been watching their MySpace profile for a…
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Hayden & Veirs, “Islands In The Stream”
**Guest blogger alert, guest blogger alert** So a few days ago we are on our way to see “The Dark Knight” and Smansmith is giving Stanley Brinks’ “Dank U” a whirl…I’m enjoying it but it makes me think of Hayden. So I say “When is Hayden coming out with something new?” Okay so, I am…
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Death Vessel — not just for the leather crowd anymore!
Yes, my friends I have been swayed to the dark side…I am a purveyor of all things hardcore and metal (enter devil horn sign with hand here). Oh wait, Death Vessel is not thrash-core metal…it is a very decent folk styled. Okay now we are back to normal, I hope nobody got too worried there…
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Horse Feathers or Chad VanGaalen — September’s most anticipated release?
So I am anxiously awaiting two releases this September and by the blog post title you already know who they are. I mean there are other important releases coming (also awaiting this), but I think Horse Feathers and Chad VanGaalen are able to make my hands shake while clicking for an online purchase. September 9th…
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If You Haven’t Heard – Blackbird Harmony
So I am going to try and start a new feature here on the ol’ website/blog space, and I am thinking of calling it “If you haven’t heard”. The title of the weekly installment will be followed by a band or artist name of the featured talent — not unlike the title of this post.…
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No post today (well not really), maybe tomorrow?
Okay, maybe a quick one as I am tired. A great track to listen to in headphones on a long roadtrip (one that is in my very near future – no blog posting shortly!). Don’t let anyone tell you that you are not cool for listening to Ryan Adams still. [display_podcast] Thanks to Aquarium Drunkard…
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Bon Iver, Joanna Newsom, Alec Ounsworth, et al.
Independent Artist Vocals Styles – A dissection. I was thinking in traffic the other day about the “indie” band/artists and the vocal styling they can have. What I am alluding to is the fact that often a vocalist in the “off the beaten path” side of the music industry can sometimes be…”not a formally trained…
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Oweihops dual post starts here (or ends here…)
Hello Slowcoustic readers! I wanted to post today to advise of a fairly recent update to my blogging persona — my dual personality! Okay that sounds dramatic, but I wanted to do a dual post with my other blogging life over on the You Crazy Dreamers Blog. Yes, it is true, I cheat on my…
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Is Slowcoustic a bit too “Adult Contemporary”?
Typing that statement alone pretty much evokes strong feelings from me, and I don’t really know why. This is sadly something that comes up now and again, and is usually brought to light from “interlopers” who are not familiar with good music and/or are trying to be funny by assuming this will be taken as…
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Three parts that should be as one. Even Damien Jurado says so.
So now that I consider myself a blogger, I have to find where all my music has made it to over the course of the last few years. Sure you rip a CD, you find something online, you get a copy from someone — it all ends up for the most part as an mp3…
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And the winner is…I’m not completely sure!
I have already used up my “lazy Sunday” theme post, so this means it is officially the second full week of the new blog!!!! Huzzah! A little background on this post…I was working on a “Guide to Slowcoustic” as some people are still a bit lost on the concept of made up words and musical…