Month: August 2009
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Here Cometh The Mountain Goats: The Life of the World to Come
All hail the coming of more Darnielle & Co. So the new album from The Mountain Goats “The Life of the World to Come” will be out on October 6th, 2009. No, it isn’t the calling of one who has found the Lord, but 12 songs of lessons learned in life. If you know Darnielle,…
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New/Upcoming Release Listening – The tracks I’m “allowed” to give you edition.
photo stolen from Less Noise More Signal So I am sitting here listening to one of the many iTunes playlists I make (I am a bit of a fiend for this) and while scrobbling to my Last.fm profile I noticed that some tracks are readily available for download. As I consider myself basically an up…
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It’s a Brand New Day. End of an Era. Okay, all I did was quit my job…
What’s happening? Well if anyone follows me or even knows me they will know that I have shed the shackles of corporate world in favour of the private sector – regardless if it is a job that I am not really qualified for, but that is a story for another time. So I thought I…
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Phosphorescent throw back: Black Cab Session version of “Wolves”
Just being unemployed for a few days, so I am at my computer (without corporate network restrictions), so let’s put another post up on the blog!! This song was playing on the drive to work yesterday, knowing it was my last day ‘working for the man’, it just sounded that much better. Honestly it sounded…
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The Black Atlantic’s “Reverence For Fallen Trees” for breakout album of the year?
Introduced and recommended to me from the good folks at The Waiting Room (see them on the blogroll to your right please) – The Black Atlantic are currently on hardcore repeat over here. As soon as you spin it a bit, you will feel the same way I am sure. The Album is Reverence for…
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And now for something completely different… Feral Children!
Just thought I would post something completely different for me – just to show you that I have range. Yeah, I have range… So this song, “Spy/Glass House”, is something I first heard over at Captain Obvious’ blog when he posted the video for this particular track (HERE) and it totally caught me. I can…
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Calgary Concert Alert – Mojave! Tonight: August 25th, 2009
Mojave hit the Calgary Concert alert with their Cross Canada Tour stop right here in Calgary tonight at Dickens Pub (locals can find it HERE). They have hit the roads looking for good folks, good vegan cuisine and now a great show here in Cow-Town (is it okay to say cow-town and Vegan in the…
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Mi and L’au – Good Morning Jokers album via video
Mi and L’au are a French/Finnish duo that creates the lullabyes that you always wish you had. The sound of down-tempo pop as it was meant to be. The new album “Good Morning Jokers” surprisingly has 4 videos of various tracks already (with 3 below). As I can only find “Up In The Building” as…
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Doby Watson’s “Twenty Two” shines on Orchid Collective
So the unassuming Orchid Collective surprises again. This label keeps on churning out solid talent – why are not more people falling over themselves?? I guess it shows that the general public finds all it’s taste in it’s mouth. But that is for another time…. The “Collective” have provided myself with a full roster of…
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No post today, but buy a shirt why don’t you.
Sorry folks, I missed putting something together for today. There, there, it’s Friday so it isn’t all bad. Look over to the right – you can now buy SLOWCOUSTIC shirts!! I have terrible photos of them but I am working on having stupendously bored attractive people model them… They are pretty nice and hey, they…
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Status Check – All good, for the most part.
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 on a few items…
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Sharon Van Etten Re-Releases debut album – Slowcoustic rejoices with CD giveaway!
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…