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Hayden & Veirs, “Islands In The Stream”
**Guest blogger alert, guest blogger alert** So a few days ago we are on our way to see “The Dark Knight” and Smansmith is giving Stanley Brinks’ “Dank U” a whirl…I’m enjoying it but it makes me think of Hayden. So I say “When is Hayden coming out with something new?” Okay so, I am…
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Death Vessel — not just for the leather crowd anymore!
Yes, my friends I have been swayed to the dark side…I am a purveyor of all things hardcore and metal (enter devil horn sign with hand here). Oh wait, Death Vessel is not thrash-core metal…it is a very decent folk styled. Okay now we are back to normal, I hope nobody got too worried there…
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Horse Feathers or Chad VanGaalen — September’s most anticipated release?
So I am anxiously awaiting two releases this September and by the blog post title you already know who they are. I mean there are other important releases coming (also awaiting this), but I think Horse Feathers and Chad VanGaalen are able to make my hands shake while clicking for an online purchase. September 9th…
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If You Haven’t Heard – Blackbird Harmony
So I am going to try and start a new feature here on the ol’ website/blog space, and I am thinking of calling it “If you haven’t heard”. The title of the weekly installment will be followed by a band or artist name of the featured talent — not unlike the title of this post.…
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No post today (well not really), maybe tomorrow?
Okay, maybe a quick one as I am tired. A great track to listen to in headphones on a long roadtrip (one that is in my very near future – no blog posting shortly!). Don’t let anyone tell you that you are not cool for listening to Ryan Adams still. [display_podcast] Thanks to Aquarium Drunkard…
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Bon Iver, Joanna Newsom, Alec Ounsworth, et al.
Independent Artist Vocals Styles – A dissection. I was thinking in traffic the other day about the “indie” band/artists and the vocal styling they can have. What I am alluding to is the fact that often a vocalist in the “off the beaten path” side of the music industry can sometimes be…”not a formally trained…
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Oweihops dual post starts here (or ends here…)
Hello Slowcoustic readers! I wanted to post today to advise of a fairly recent update to my blogging persona — my dual personality! Okay that sounds dramatic, but I wanted to do a dual post with my other blogging life over on the You Crazy Dreamers Blog. Yes, it is true, I cheat on my…
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Is Slowcoustic a bit too “Adult Contemporary”?
Typing that statement alone pretty much evokes strong feelings from me, and I don’t really know why. This is sadly something that comes up now and again, and is usually brought to light from “interlopers” who are not familiar with good music and/or are trying to be funny by assuming this will be taken as…
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Three parts that should be as one. Even Damien Jurado says so.
So now that I consider myself a blogger, I have to find where all my music has made it to over the course of the last few years. Sure you rip a CD, you find something online, you get a copy from someone — it all ends up for the most part as an mp3…
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And the winner is…I’m not completely sure!
I have already used up my “lazy Sunday” theme post, so this means it is officially the second full week of the new blog!!!! Huzzah! A little background on this post…I was working on a “Guide to Slowcoustic” as some people are still a bit lost on the concept of made up words and musical…
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Woodpigeon’s New Album is out! Summer it is my friends, summer it is.
So I thought I would post on some great summer sounds that I just picked up from a band that I ironically enough, don’t know enough about. The band is Woodpigeon who just so happen to be from the very city I currently live in! I KNOW. I had heard of them prior to listening…
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Olympic sized post (not really, it is actually quite average sized)
So we all know what is happening at the moment – OLYMPICS! 08/08/08 This is always an exciting time as I am a big fan of worldwide competition (enjoyed a spirited game of “Risk” here and there in my day) and what better competition is there than the Olympics? Okay some of you may not…