Tag: Singer Songwriter
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Status Check, Updates and a few concert alerts in the Slowcoustic radius!
Round up of some recent happenings alongside some upcoming events with a few musical offerings for good measure!
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J. Tillman’s “Casualties” on Luxury Wafers – is it my song of the decade?
Casualties from J. Tillman’s “Long May You Run, J. Tillman” is most likely my favourite song of the last decade. So no list of best songs of the 00’s, just this one great video/song
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Artists Listen Up: Get a new website for free! Kilted Chaos kick up their skirt to your future!
as a musician/artist/band if you are not available (and want to be) and you don’t have a website set up – you might as well just stay in your basement by yourself…
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Entertainment For The Braindead — Hydrophobia
Free music is always good. Free music is always great when it is worth having and actually listening to. I have been introduced to aaahh records previously, but sometimes I just need a couple of pushes to get my attention. In this case the two pushes came in the form of Common Folk Meadows post…
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~~~~~~Year End List Alert~~~~~~ “Best Tracks of 2008” from…not 2008!
I would like to welcome everyone to a week of “Bests” from good friends on the old Slowcoustic Blogroll. I am honoured to have all 5 days (Monday through Friday) this week dedicated to what my fellow bloggers think are some of the best things they have found this past year. As previously mentioned the…
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Talons’ – Songs for Babes
So if you are into bedroom folk (hey, mind out of the gutter!) than I have the guy for you. Talons’ is the guy and he is just recording songs about babes…I guess. No seriously, this album from the Bark N Hiss label is a great collection of lo-fi singer songwriter recordings. Moments of charm,…
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If You Haven’t Heard – The Cloud Hymn
How do I describe “The Cloud Hymn” other than repeating the newly assigned band name? I mean, no better description for a band lies in its name than what I have before you today. In the same way the band Death Vessel seems like a polar opposite of sound to name, this is a polar…
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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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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…