tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662610270551147412023-11-16T11:40:17.044-05:00SlowdiveMusic BlogMusic Reviews, Gig Reviews, Singing Unsung HeroesSlowdiveMusichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13972493532633025650noreply@blogger.comBlogger451125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-166261027055114741.post-55852126489944291542013-07-30T20:38:00.002-04:002013-07-30T20:38:41.208-04:00We have relaunched blog at the following site: SlowdiveMusic Blog.
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Thank you!!!SlowdiveMusichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13972493532633025650noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-166261027055114741.post-70985189304955612732013-06-20T20:01:00.001-04:002013-06-20T20:01:38.884-04:00Fashion: "Love Shadow"It's Throw Back Thursday. In 1982, the New Romantic group Fashion set the dance floors ablaze with the sexy riffs of "Love Shadow." (Thank you, Dave!)
SlowdiveMusichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13972493532633025650noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-166261027055114741.post-16067791994460286852013-06-19T18:34:00.001-04:002013-06-20T20:01:34.679-04:00Empire of the Sun: "DNA"Today's Song of the Day is Empire of the Sun's "DNA."
SlowdiveMusichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13972493532633025650noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-166261027055114741.post-69815737270853222992013-06-18T20:42:00.000-04:002013-06-18T20:42:43.444-04:00Siriusmo: "Itchy / Cornerboy"On this rainy NYC day, I have actually NOT been listening to dream pop, shoegaze, or post-punk, which very may well be one of the signs of the apocalypse! Instead, been into Siriusmo's "Itchy / Cornerboy" all day ... Enjoy!
SlowdiveMusichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13972493532633025650noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-166261027055114741.post-7002666769713854222013-06-17T16:23:00.002-04:002013-06-17T16:23:36.131-04:00Tegan and Sara's "Shock to Your System"Today's Song of the Day is Tegan and Sara's "Shock to Your System."
SlowdiveMusichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13972493532633025650noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-166261027055114741.post-74313204564131584042013-06-16T23:58:00.000-04:002013-06-16T23:58:10.547-04:00Mayer Hawthorne: "Her Favorite Song"Today's Song of the Day (posted late!): Mayer Hawthorne's "Her Favorite Song."
SlowdiveMusichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13972493532633025650noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-166261027055114741.post-87643585084988843792013-06-15T15:43:00.001-04:002013-06-15T15:43:04.704-04:00Shindu: "Happy House"Today's song of the day is Shindu's amazing cover of Siouxsie and the Banshees' "Happy House." (Thanks to DJ Chauncey for today's selection.)
SlowdiveMusichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13972493532633025650noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-166261027055114741.post-54434926869144081322013-06-14T16:46:00.000-04:002013-06-14T16:48:02.671-04:00Song of the DayWe will be relaunching soon ... in the mean time, we will be sharing a song a day by various artists and blog contributors. Today's Song of the Day is The Pigeon Detectives' "I Won't Come Back," from their fourth studio album, "We Met at Sea." (Thanks to Peter, aka Mirage, for today's song of the day.)
SlowdiveMusichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13972493532633025650noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-166261027055114741.post-13292907459788394232012-07-04T15:44:00.000-04:002012-07-04T15:48:05.297-04:00Big Wreck: "Albatross"As I have said before, my youth consisted of an overdose of a few genres of music: dream pop, glam rock, goth rock, (early deep) house, industrial, new wave, (campy and kitschy) pop, post-punk, punk, shoegaze, synthpop, etc… So it should come as no surprise when I say that by 1997 I was becoming disenchanted with music. Just look at was on offer from the veterans: Erasure’s “Cowboy” (1997, a SlowdiveMusichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13972493532633025650noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-166261027055114741.post-63437104027279393322012-05-12T21:31:00.001-04:002012-05-12T22:09:58.580-04:00Back, with a Few Words, Videos, and More KoortwahIt has been quite some time since I have been willing to write, and, in retrospect, I realize that I really needed the time to myself to deal with many issues. 2012 has been one of those years that make you wish it were over already; from my home being broken into and someone in my immediate family passing, I just needed the time to let the dust settle and sort things out in my head. Being backSlowdiveMusichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13972493532633025650noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-166261027055114741.post-21795723497244289342012-03-10T22:58:00.009-05:002012-03-10T23:21:18.852-05:00Koortwah: "Lay Them Wise"A bit over a month ago, DJ Chauncey Dandridge told me about Koortwah; he did not so much ask me to listen to Koortwah’s music, but rather demanded it. With permission from Koortwah, I was forwarded a link to download and listen to the music, a collection entitled “Vertical Demos.” Honestly, I did not take the needed time to really listen actively and thoroughly, but on Saturday, 11 February SlowdiveMusichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13972493532633025650noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-166261027055114741.post-41867926593986964992012-03-03T20:21:00.006-05:002012-03-03T20:33:01.370-05:00Stephen Vs Stephen Answers 5When I first listened to Stephen Vs. Stephen’s deubt EP, “And Yet,” I was immediately drawn into its multi-references to past musical trends and its air of current urgency and relevance. There was no doubt that I was going to review this EP (link). Stephen Vs. Stephen is the brainchild of Stephen Sandknop, a truly independent and nascent musician. So nascent indeed that you will be pressed to SlowdiveMusichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13972493532633025650noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-166261027055114741.post-49678847882070706972012-03-01T22:30:00.004-05:002012-03-01T22:48:58.405-05:00Katrin The Thrill: "Earth Is Calling Us"My many thanks to Independent Music Promotions for keeping me in the loop!There are a few female vocalists, who when I hear them sing, the sound of their voices continue to haunt me for hours. Grace Slick and Siouxsie Sioux are two of these vocalists; the one thing that they have in common is that when they sing, their vocals seem to “lift” from the songs and dominate the soundscape. In more SlowdiveMusichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13972493532633025650noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-166261027055114741.post-32633947536744072982012-02-19T00:05:00.005-05:002012-02-19T00:20:52.763-05:00Videos and a Few Words on MadgeAmong some of my friends, the Madonna mania has started – a few of them who have never watched the Super Bowl tuned in this year to see Madge perform. Let’s give credit where it is due: a pop career spanning thirty-years (no other pop artist has ever stayed relevant for that long), the bragging rights of being the most spectacular live pop performer, currently the fourth most selling artist of SlowdiveMusichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13972493532633025650noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-166261027055114741.post-44075118898962906762012-02-18T23:36:00.011-05:002012-02-18T23:59:08.136-05:00Doug Prescott: "The Journey & The Deep Blue Sea"My many thanks to Independent Music Promotions for keeping me in the loop.For some reason or other, I have typically swayed away from making political commentary on the blog, but I think it is obvious from the musicians that I tend to cover where I stand politically. It is perhaps why I usually sway away from certain genres of music and a certain set of musicians – their politics revolt me for SlowdiveMusichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13972493532633025650noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-166261027055114741.post-17792191729537827902012-02-07T21:14:00.003-05:002012-02-08T11:23:07.395-05:00Alcest: “Les Voyages De L’Âme”Every once in a while I find that it is alright to revert our minds into the times of knights in shining armor and the Guillotine. There is a lucid feeling that one gets when off in the clouds of ‘the great escape.’ It is enough to know that there is some place to turn to when the walls of today are crumbling to the floors of tomorrow. I once came across Alcest while surfing through the “related Painted Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09150251180519712896noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-166261027055114741.post-76858533087316237012012-01-23T20:39:00.007-05:002012-01-23T20:55:07.934-05:00The Silent Numbers Answers 5Late in December I reviewed The Silent Numbers’ “Calculator” (link), an alluringly dark brooding breed of shoegaze. Now, I make no pretense, I am big fan of shoegaze, always on the lookout for something new, that helps to evolve the genre further, and that is what I found in The Silent Numbers. It was a no-brainer; I reached out to the band and asked them to answer a few of my questions. So I SlowdiveMusichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13972493532633025650noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-166261027055114741.post-68113816741415881712012-01-22T18:51:00.012-05:002012-01-22T19:15:41.586-05:00Third AnniversaryNot to be cliché, SlowdiveMusic Blog has been and continues to be a labor of love. From as far back as I can remember, I have spent hours listening to music; not just the kind of listening that we all do as background noise, but quite literally playing an album in the dark and just listening. Starting the blog, though I had a bit of internal resistance, was one of my best decisions, because it SlowdiveMusichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13972493532633025650noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-166261027055114741.post-22557012143503269312012-01-21T18:16:00.012-05:002012-01-21T18:32:51.819-05:00Free SwimPaul Coltofeanu, the man behind The Android Angel moniker, has in these past months simultaneously produced music behind another moniker, Free Swim. Now, the first thing I have to admit is that most of this post should have been up last year, but life continued to get in the way. However, as I sat back this morning, listening to the first two releases and the brand new one, I instantly SlowdiveMusichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13972493532633025650noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-166261027055114741.post-998498242691243022012-01-17T19:46:00.005-05:002012-01-17T20:01:46.044-05:00The Big Pink: "Future This"Despite my head cold, I sat down and listened to The Big Pink’s “Future This” (16 January 2012 in the UK, 17 January 2012 in the USA); it played through – the first thing that I struggled with was the idea of expectations. In the wake of their debut album, “A Brief History of Love,” and the slight success of the single “Dominos,” would The Big Pink avoid a sophomore slump and record an album SlowdiveMusichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13972493532633025650noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-166261027055114741.post-79739458763580383712012-01-16T20:15:00.006-05:002012-01-16T21:41:32.150-05:00Monks of Mellonwah: "Stars Are Out" (EP) and "Neurogenesis" (Single)My thanks to Independent Music Promotions for keeping me in the loop. (Check out their link on the side bar under “Other Stuff.”)As I have said countless of times before, I was raised (dragged!) on an overdose of post-punk and just about everything associated with it – from dream pop to shoegaze, industrial to dark wave. That is the root of the stereotype that I only listen to dark, brooding (SlowdiveMusichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13972493532633025650noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-166261027055114741.post-89408937378449488042012-01-16T19:49:00.003-05:002012-01-16T20:05:42.672-05:00Comfort and Old VideosIt was a Thursday night; I had spent a stressful day at the good ole 9-5, then drove my niece to the airport, and finally headed to my mother’s house for a late dinner. When I finally reached my home, and I inched to the door, I immediately discovered something out of the ordinary – to make a long story short, to my chagrin I walked in on a burglary. Nothing quite prepares you for knowing that SlowdiveMusichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13972493532633025650noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-166261027055114741.post-84634166044374308262012-01-03T17:49:00.004-05:002012-01-03T18:10:32.769-05:00Top Albums of 2011These are not just collections of random songs; these are albums in the traditional sense that we lost ourselves in hour after hour. (Just a note, all of the albums are in alphabetical order according to album title, but we decided for the first time to single out our top pick at the bottom of the list.) Enjoy!Golden Gardens’ “Between the Amulet and The Siren” [Video: “Ghostwood” from the SlowdiveMusichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13972493532633025650noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-166261027055114741.post-62975107719353073402012-01-02T16:34:00.004-05:002012-01-02T16:47:54.492-05:00Top Tracks of 2011For one reason or another, whether they touched us personally or they simply blew our minds away, these are the individual tracks we could not stop listening to. (Just a note, all of the songs are in alphabetical order according to song title, but we decided for the first time to single out our top pick at the bottom of the list.) Enjoy!The Chapman Family’s “Anxiety” (from thechapmanfamilytv SlowdiveMusichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13972493532633025650noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-166261027055114741.post-63746184225059585032012-01-01T22:19:00.002-05:002012-01-01T22:28:01.327-05:00Top Videos of 2011What follows are ten videos we could not stop viewing and pondering over again and again. (Just a note, all of the songs are in alphabetical order according to song title, but we decided for the first time to single out our top pick at the bottom of the list.) Enjoy!The Chapman Family’s “Anxiety” from thechapmanfamilytv YouTube Channel.IAMX’s “Bernadette” from the iamx YouTube Channel.VillagersSlowdiveMusichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13972493532633025650noreply@blogger.com0