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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…
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Andrew Bryant’s “Galilee” makes me a believer
I have waited on this one, and I don’t know why. The new album from Andrew Bryant came out July 9th, 2009 and is Bryant’s 5th release to date. This album is right at the top of my indie folk rock stack of releases, and for good reason. So this stack of indie folk rock…
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The “I’ve been gone so long, so here is a bunch of covers” post, or this post title is soo long it could be a Sufjan Stevens album demo.
So I have been away from posting new stuff (or old stuff for that matter) – due to day to day life getting in the way. I know, this is no excuse – in a cut throat world of mp3/music blogging this comes as a hollow excuse disguised as a “reason”. Well, dear blog readers,…
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Newest facination: foreign female singer-songwriters! Haruko’s “Wild Geese” being the reason
Sorry for some downtime on the blog lately, life getting in the way: Family visiting, little access to the “spare room” or “Slowcoustic Headquarters” as I know it. Also quit the day job on Friday – newly working for private business (no longer a corporate monkey) on web & marketing! Very excited. So I have…
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My Song of the Summer: The Cave Singers’ “At The Cut”
I part rock, 1 part energy, 1 part bass line. This song is me “rocking out”. This is the best thing since “Dancing on Our Graves” – which incidentally could have been my song of the summer 2 years ago. So really, its the best thing since their last album…so, yeah. Pick up the album…
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A Band We Need More From: Hezekiah Jones
I just want to say that I would like more of Hezekiah Jones. Raphael Cutrufello (and crew) were introduced to myself via the good folks at Yer Bird Records and after 2 solid albums, some compilation work and a nice split with Chris Bathgate (see video below) – but I still need more. Compared to…
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Forget Sigur Rós, Iceland has all-girl bands! Amiina bring Iceland’s beauty to the forefront.
I just wanted to say I am sitting here mouth agape. Amiina does that. I haven’t been on the band wagon (no pun intended) for very long and I didn’t find them myself – I believe it was the lovely Agnes over at It All Started With Carbon Monoxide who introduced me to this Icelandic…
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What are the best EPs of 2009? I have an idea (and, of course, a list)
I have heard a bit of chatter in the music blogging circles that this year is pretty good for EPs. You know the “almost album”, the “we didn’t have enough material/had too much material” release. Also the “just too short for an full album”, but a decent collection of 4-6 songs or so that need…