Category: indie
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The Ian McGlynn Soundtrack
Ian McGlynn’s music can be described as “lullaby like” and even full of hooks that embrace “warmth” and “waltz” and often has a “patented soaring chorus”. After listening I can assure you that all of these things are very true, while also being extremely catchy at the same time. McGlynn caught my ear in the…
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Slowcoustic Recommends Being a Passenger
New blogger co-hort “Adrift On Deep Water” has sent me a recommendation of a band he posted on a while back an I have to agree with him. Clever lyrically, decent tunes and bleak themes, but with a delivery that makes you feel like you are okay with it. It doesn’t all have “sound” like…
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What I Should Be Doing on a Friday Night…Listening to More Will Johnson
My previous post on Will Johnson brought back the whole Dual Hawks release from last year and the fact that I really like Will’s work with South San Gabriel. I liked the South San Gabriel disc better than the Centro-Matic disc from Dual Hawks – but one might assume this for the down tempo folk…
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If you haven’t heard – Magnolia Summer
Hey, if you haven’t heard….”Magnolia Summer”! Welcome again kiddies to another installment of “If You Haven’t Heard” and the band in question – Magnolia Summer. This St. Louis based “rock” band (as they describe themselves) is a bit of a collection of friends that have been interchanged over the past few years under the moniker…
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An Absolutely Kosher Playlist
Well I have done this before and I am sure I will do it again. Let’s see what a pretty damn good label has for us today – a little bit of a sampler of another provider of music…if you will. While I don’t pretend to know all the artists on the AKR label (and…
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Black Cab Sessions – Revisited
We all know that I love (and I mean love, honour and respect till death we do part) the Black Cab Sessions. It always brings a smile to my face and a great tune to my ears. They get some serious talent, do great recordings and you get a glimpse of some the artists in…
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Friday Quickies – Jive White Boy’s “Knives That Stab Your Face”
Other than the title of this post sounding wrong or completely wrong and even possibly disturbingly wrong – here we are with a quick Friday post with that great title! I have to apologize to the JWB himself that this is not a full treatment of Slowcoustic love, but I will make it up and…
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Fields of Industry – Michigan wins again!
Fields of Industry…kind of like “Captains of Industry” only like with a field, or something with a touch more hazy drug influenced backgrounds. So, yeah. What is going on here is some indie-psych soundtrack from Lansing Michigan entitled “Fields of Industry”. I am fairly new to FoI and not necessarily up to date with my…
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Would the real DCFC stand up?
Just a taster of the new husband&wife (via Vimeo performances) with two tracks from the upcoming album “Dark Dark Woods”. Is it bad that I think they are the Death Cab for Cutie of 2009 (maybe with a touch less “indie pop”)? I have to say the new album sounds pretty good, a bit catchy,…
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Lanterns on the Lake & Last.fm – perfect match
This is why I love music and love Last.fm. Lanterns on the Lake (discovered via Agnes over on It All Started with Carbon Monoxide) is a lush and soothing soundscape via rainy day England. Now with the help of Last.fm, you too can stare longingly at the ground while possibly swaying back and forth getting…
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Slowcoustic Essentials – Jason Molina
Jason Molina. The man of many faces (or identities at least) in the realm of what many might call “indie” music. He just might be the “essential of essentials” for the type of music I love. Whether he is Magnolia Electric Co., Songs: Ohia or even just Jason Molina…this guy should be a staple in…
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Bringing you up to speed on Travel By Sea
Travel by Sea. One of the most interesting stories I have heard in a while, well heard a couple of years ago at least. One that I always like telling as it is a great one. It goes a little like this…two guys who have never met record some music and put it together. It…