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Category: Indie-pop??

  • The Stunning Ohbijou

    It really “kicks in” or starts at about 1:18…and check out more of the above Ohbijou performances over on AUX’s “Camera Music” here. Enjoy a couple of tracks from the re-release (re-mastered if that helps) of “Swift Feet for Troubling Times” last year including “Blizzards” that doesn’t appear on the original. Ohbijou “Steep” (mp3) from…

  • Lamenting for Summer

    Jihae’s “Best Thing” Video…I miss summer.  Here in Calgary, it is getting colder, darker and wintery.  Although as a Canadian, it isn’t really that cold, but still, there seems to be less “frolicking through the fields to the local pond for a dip”…and in saying that, I give you summer. Just a little reminder…. ~Smansmith

  • New music – the peptides

    So here we are with the down-tempo section of the class today – ladies and gents, here are the peptides! Despite sounding like a 50’s digestive aid, “the peptides” were a welcome surprise in my inbox.  I have also discovered that the peptides are actually the pseudo art project of singer/songwriter Claude Marquis, with assistance…

  • Scott Cooper’s Tiny Increments

    So, Remembrance Day is here (well in the Commonwealth at least) and on this day of reflection, I am sitting at home (no work today for me) and listening to something that almost got away from me.  The Scott Cooper beauty “Tiny Increments” from 2007. And I have to be honest about this as well. …

  • hitide.lotide – The Forest

    I have a treat for you all today, in the project of Nate Gruber and his cast of friends that make up this Wisconsin forest that is Hitide.Lotide. Gruber is a multi-instrumentalist and you can tell this fact from the music he creates.  It is however difficult to create such sounds outside a studio if…

  • The Piano Creeps – “Future Blues (For Me And You)” (2008)

    The Piano Creeps, is just that – what your mind’s eye might think a “creeping” piano might actually sound like.  If you are a bit confused, it is the beautiful sound of this trio from Ithaca, New York. So, the sound.  Think of a soundtrack to a movie that plays just a little too slow…

  • Friday Discoveries

    So this post is going to be easy as it is full of artists that I am not very familiar with.  I intend on listening to each one a bit more (of what they have to this point) as each one shows a lot of potential to become regulars on my personal playlists.  Come to…

  • Firekites – The Bowery (2008)

    Firekites, you say.   Hmmm…had to add a ” Indie-Pop?? category” in order to post on this Australian quartet (well basically a quartet for the most part) and me thinks that I am branching out a bit for Slowcoustic.  This definitely has a mellow or down-tempo atmosphere, but is not your standard singer-songwriter stuff.  So how…