Category: Video
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Kathryn Williams and Neill MacColl unveil “Two” June 9th.
If there’s an over-arching idea to the album, it’s about how to capture a moment before it’s lost forever. The album was written, recorded and mixed in a little over two weeks- a miniscule timescale in these times of recording, re-recording and digitally manipulating every note of every part played. This is a record in…
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Can’t Write, Just Watch. Sharon Van Etten.
kick ass. as much as it can at least. Sharon Van Etten (dot) com ~Smansmith
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Dame Satan’s “Beaches and Bridges” Brings Psych-Folk Back!
Just a little bit of Dame Satan’s ambient psych folk for your Wednesday. This is what happens when someone blends 60s acid with an ambient production. Sometimes too sparse to describe, sometimes way too trippy to think you actually understand it, but always worth a listen (or two). The band and new album dissected: “It…
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Acoustic Dakota Suite on “They Shoot Music Don’t They?” + bonus MP3s
Very nice haunting of the Viennese Hotel Fürstenhof. Ever find yourself wanting for a lonely day, or simply need to unwind – Dakota Suite is here. They will provide you with their melancholy a la post rock singer-songwriter persona to be the one to walk you down that winding path into dusk. Sometimes ethereal, sometimes…
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Horse Feathers and Bowerbirds – Its “Theme” Folk Friday!
Horse Feathers AND Bowerbirds AND #90.1 – BOWERBIRDS – Bur Oak by lablogotheque For some reason, I always keep these two bands in the same corner – maybe I started listening around the same time or had a common playlist with just them on it. There is just a connection for me when I try…
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Jeniferever Video and New(ish) Track
So I first posted some of the beauty that is the new Jeniferever here. Now we seem to have another track for promo from the new album plus the video from the first track. Nice little Friday night we got going on. Check out the video for “Green Meadow Island” below: Also check out the…
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3 More Reasons Why I Love The Dead Oceans Label
They will be releasing the next Bowerbirds album “Upper Air” in July They are releasing the new Akron/Family album “Set ’em Wild, Set ’em Free” tomorrow – listen to “River” (mp3) They have Matthew Houck on roster, or as you know him, Phosphorescent Phosphorescent live on KEXP at The Cutting Room Studios NYC from KEXP…
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Scott Matthew Has a Masterpiece on His Hands
Maybe it is the fact that at first listen it presents as a cross between Devendra’s bohemian and Antony’s dramatics…Scott Matthew’s latest album “There Is An Ocean That Divides”** is something more than simply a new album, it is a wake up call that he is here and is delivering us a masterpiece. ~~ ~~…
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Something Borrowed and Something Blue
Advised from friend Giuseppe over at Happy Days Are Here Again Blog via Twitter: new Brian Borcherdt video for Scout Leader – LOVE IT – mostly as I had Brian Borcherdt’s “Coyotes” album as my favourite album of 2008. I am very much biased on this topic. Debates are still raging over the topic of…
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The Wheat Pool – Country Rock from the City of Champions
So last night I went out. Yes, I went out to mingle among the people, to feel the night air in my lungs, to hear the buzz of a crowded club and pounding of a kick drum. Yes, I enjoyed live music here in Calgary (rare for me, as I find not too many “known”…
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I Will Be Listening to Garrett Pierce This Weekend.
So one of the benefits of music blogging is musicians and labels and people in “the biz” tend to know each other and recommend back and forth to themselves AND you. The good thing is often artists of the same ilk will fall into same circles, discuss with same folks and recommend each other. Not…
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O’Death. Oh so good.
nuff said. ~Smansmith p.s. Visit Laundromatinee for an alternate live version HERE – and pick up a few free downloads of the session. Soo good.