Azealia Banks who? RobotPigeon have a different idea for a 'cool' list (we could only think of a top nine)... 1. Jesy Nelson - X Factor is shit this year. Aside from two things: Kelly Rowland (who we will come back to in a minute) and Little Mix. Little Mix's brilliance is due to one person: Jesy Nelson. You know her. She is the one everyone (hello 'the internet') is picking on because she looks like a normal person and not a pop [...]
The line up for this years Home Game festival was announced today, for those without tickets I would advise that you skip this bit as it's only going to make you jealous (or at least it did for me). Here is the line up in full: Andrew Greig , Babe, Burnt Island , Cancel The Astronauts , Cate Le Bon , Conquering Animal Sound , Colorama , David Thomas Broughton , Delifinger, eagleowl , FOUND , François & The Atlas Mountains , Geese , Gummi Bako , [...]
So recently we wrote about Dot JR and how much we liked him. Then who goes and decides they want him to do a session. Only Radio bloody 1. You see - they should listen to us for more playlist advice. Anyway. We think this proves he is indeed as good as we predicted. Just one thing: PULL YOUR TROUSERS UP YOUNG MAN. This is nicked from the BBC website, so they'll probably take it down in about 2 days. Sorry etc.
Track Listing 1. Blood 2. Moonlight (Running Around) 3. Revolution 4. Top Of The World Download
Myspace: the place where social networking sites go to die. We hadn't logged into Myspace since last November. And we're the sort of people with enough time on our hands to log into Twitter just to post things like this: So imagine our surprise when we went on Myspace and found someone bloody amazing. Take a bow Dot J.R . Here is what we know about Dot J.R: 1. He is from Stornoway. That is not a village in Narnia. It's actually on [...]
The Scottish music scene is undeniably city-centric. If a band isn't doing the rounds of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee or Inverness then, for many people, they might as well not exist. Yet that would mean missing out on a massive amount of talent, and that talent tends to avoid the derivative, scenestery, cliché-addled sound which often comes from being part of a much wider network. It also helps that these music-making islanders can take inspiration from the most beautiful scenery Scotland has to offer and bring those pure thoughts with them if they decide to head [...]
Forget the jewellery, walk away from the crotchless panties, put down the designer wallet. The best Valentine's Day gifts are the ones where clearly some deep thought has gone into it, an original idea, that special personal touch. Unfortunately, this requires two qualities that not everyone acquired in the gene pool - imagination and creativity - so the next best thing is the trusty custom-made romantic mix CD, which we've just gone and made for you to download and burn onto a single CD-R. As you will no doubt have already [...]
You're probably aware by now that we started this thing called the Music Alliance Pact. The Pop Cop's part of the deal is to choose a Scottish song to share with the rest of the world on the 15th of every month, and to celebrate MAP's 1st birthday (IKEA vouchers would be great, thanks) we've decided to compile our 12 selections to date in a single album for you to download for free. I know what you're thinking - that's 'The Best Scottish Album in the World... Ever!' Unfortunately, that record already exists so [...]
Take one look at the line-up for the SOUNDS IN THE GROUNDS festival on the Isle of Lewis and it brings a whole new meaning to the phrase 'incestuous music scene' (no, not like that). Dotjr aka James Reeves masquerades as the bassist for Our Lunar Activities ; Manor Park Elite frontman Niaal Masson is the man behind Iglue ; and Willie Campbell plays under his own name as well as being Our Small Capital's [...]
Scotland's most listened to commercial radio station, Clyde 1, has a list of artists which they call their "Top 50". It is an exclusive club that contains only the rich and famous, from which their daily playlist is chosen, and it reads like Q magazine's contents page: Amy Macdonald , Amy Winehouse, Beyonce, Bryan Adams, Coldplay, David Gray, Duffy, The Feeling, Franz Ferdinand , The Fratellis , Girls Aloud, James Morrison, Kaiser Chiefs, Katy Perry, Keane, Kelly Clarkson, The Killers, Kings of Leon, The Kooks, KT Tunstall , Kylie, [...]
We don't have resolutions at New Year, we have revelations. What can be better than recuperating from the excesses of Shloer-fuelled festive partying than handpicking the 10 most incredible should-be-famous artists to stalk in the next 12 months? This time last year we got a bit overzealous and chose 16 tips for the top, a few of which actually went on to sell more than 16 records. For 2009's hot young things, we have three Scots, one English, two Aussies and four Yanks, starting with a band who we've been listening to [...]
It's Music Alliance Pact time again. If you're a regularish reader you should know the script by now. Our aim is to get one music blog from every country in the planet to share their favourite song of the month by an artist from that nation. All the text you see below the picture of the bonnie Scotsman is written by each individual blogger and then replicated on each site on the same day, give or take some intercontinental time differences. Thanks to the additions of Brazil, Chile, Germany, New Zealand, Portugal, Singapore and [...]
MAP - Music Alliance Pact #3 Prosegue l'esperimento internazionale del Music Pact Alliance (riassunto delle puntate precedenti: qui e qui ) e raggiunge quota 21 Paesi coinvolti. La lista dei gruppi segnalati questo mese mi pare particolarmente ricca. Aspetto sempre commenti e consigli su come proseguire al meglio questa collaborazione. Per scaricare tutte le canzoni in un solo click, ecco il link . AMERICA : I Guess I'm Floating Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele [...]
O "Posso Ouvir Um Disco?" é um dos membros do Music Alliance Pact, projecto organizado por um escocês, Jason, e também um blogger (ver http://thepopcop.blogspot.com/ ) A sua ideia consiste em, mensalmente, vinte e um blogs contribuirem com um tema, de uma banda ou artista do seu país. AMERICA – I Guess I'm Floating Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele – 26 Miles Mississippi-based Dent May has
It's once again time for the best songs in the world. The group of contributing bloggers continues to grow for MAP as does it's worldwide presence (recent press from Rolling Stone among others). These are songs from around the world but not world music and that's one of the things I like about this project. This is not music that is pandering for the NPR "world music" crowd. It's music from around the world influenced by the host countries and their local cultures but not controlled by them. Enjoy these songs, there's a .zip file at [...]
A monthly feature where music bloggers across the world share a track from their home country that they think you should hear. This month we are up to 21 countries with first time contributions from Brazil, Chile, Germany, New Zealand, Portugal, Singapore and South Korea. Thanks again to Jason for organising all this. Files on the hotlinkfiles.com server are down right now for some reason - back shortly. AMERICA – I Guess I'm Floating Dent May [...]
initiated by jason from the scottish music blog the pop cop , the music alliance pact (MAP) is a coming together of music blogs from all over the world sharing their favorite local songs on the 15th of every month. i'm waking up to... is proud to be the singapore representative for this project, so i'd like to take this opportunity to introduce a new contributor to the team (now that makes 2!), brian koh , our local music correspondent who'll be contributing to MAP every month, on top of a forthcoming column featuring [...]
Es 15 de Diciembre y hoy toca un nuevo capitulo de MAP (Music Alliance Pact) una comunidad enfocada al intercambio cultural musical que comenzo con 12 blogs de 12 países, luego tuvo unas cuantas adiciones y este mes ya somos 21 países, al equipo se han unido Meio Desligado de Brazil, Super 45 de Chile, Blogpartei de Alemania, Counting The Beat de Nueva Zelanda, Posso Ouvir Um Disco? de Portugal, I'm Waking Up To de Singapore e Indieful ROK de Corea del Sur, y con eso [...]
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