Category: Featured
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Artists Listen Up: Get a new website for free! Kilted Chaos kick up their skirt to your future!
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…
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I will always love The Mountain Goats.
…bands have a shelf life because let’s face it, often musical tastes change as you age. There are also factors such as mood, location, social circles that tend to influence the music you are listening to…
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If You Haven’t Heard: Aaron Espe
Deft use of harmony alongside a bounty of acoustic guitar go a long way. Mix in a bit of piano and stories about small town life and you have a great idea of an Aaron Espe song.
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Free Compilation Alert – OndaDrops Volume 1: Do You Know the Way to Blue?
…Italian music webzine “ondarock” has issued a double “disc” release of Slowcoustic music…features original stuff, existing album demos and even a cover (or two).
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(The) Slowest Runner (in all the World) leave me without words
Bands with long overly wordy song titles. I don’t know who started this…Well, I found one place where these bastardy named songs work.
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Video: Basket of Figs “Send Your Youth” – A MUST SEE
One of my favourite Canadian performers (having never seen her live) – the ever elusive Basket of Figs performing. Absolutely fantastic.
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Song of the Day – eagleowl’s “Sleep The Winter”
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…
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Video Alert – two videos worth watching: LØZNINGER & The Quiet Revolution
So back in Canada and fighting/wading through a very full email inbox. I guess it could be worse, I mean who likes getting updates on music? Definitely not a music blogger….er, ah, yeah…
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Song of the Day – Armen at the Bazaar’s “Heart & Thoughts”
Another song of the day for you folks! Today we have Montreal’s Armen Bazarian or as his recording moniker “Armen at the Bazaar” (see what he did there?)…
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Song of the Day – Graham Wright’s “Crooked Moon”
on vacation it can be hard to do as much blogging…If I’m on vacation how can I be at work sluffing off and working on blog posts…I will be starting some “Song of the Day” posts – small snippets with one track to enjoy…
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New discovery of lo-fi acoustic goodness: The Parade Schedule
I love finding new music that I was completely oblivious to. Who doesn’t? This time I have found the Louisville “band” The Parade Schedule and it was a very welcome surprise indeed.
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Vic Chesnutt.
I am sure by now you have all heard that the Athens based artist known as Vic Chesnutt has passed. While I don’t pretend to have known him or even known his struggles, but the world of music has lost part of its soul.