
The first installment of the Music Alliance Pact was a good introduction to a collective feature that's continuing to grow as a beacon of solidarity in the music blog community. Last month featured a collection of 12 songs from 12 blogs from around the world, each chosen to represent the country from which each band (and blog) originates. This month we've added the much-missed Canadadian and Norwegian blogs I(Heart)Music and Eardrums , respectively, bringing the total world representation to 5 of 7 continents (Africa and Antarctica, we're comin' for ya!). MAP's [...]

Vive la revolution! Following the wild success of the inaugural Music Alliance Pact last month, we've been working our wee socks off to collate November's selections, now expanded to 14 countries thanks to the additions of ambassadors from Canada and Norway. Just to remind you, MAP is a venture set up by The Pop Cop in which the hottest music blogs from Planet Earth pick their favourite song of the month by an artist from their country then simultaneously post the entire collection of songs on their own sites on the same [...]
Eardrums is now a member of the Music Alliance Pact, a monthly feature where music bloggers across the world share a track from their home country which they are excited about. 14 countries are represented in the Music Alliance Pact (MAP), and we will all post a list of all the MAP-songs on the 15th of each month. The MAP project is originally the idea of Jason from the Pop Cop blog, and he's also the one who is organizing the whole team. Thanks to him for the great work he's done! Here [...]
Music Alliance Pact month 2 is upon us. the goal is for all of these websites to share all of these songs on a given day each month. Today's the day. So here for your listening pleasure are all the best songs that made an appearance on the internets for the month of November. AMERICA: I Guess I'm Floating City Center – Summer school Brooklyn's City Center is the solo work of Fred Thomas from Saturday Looks Good To Me, focusing [...]

"We're going to a party, it... it's a birthday party. It's your birthday party. Happy birthday, darling. We love you very, very, very, very, very, very, very much." ( Conor Oberst, 2005: Bright Eyes - The Bottom Of Everything ) Today marks one year of The Pop Cop's existence. What began on June 13, 2007 as a Scottish music blog with previews, news, interviews, gossip and free mp3s is now, a full 12 months later, exactly the same. OK, not exactly the same. The site's layout has evolved into [...]