
Wow. It was one year ago today that I squeezed out my first post as The Burning Ear and 411 posts later and here we are. It's amazing how fast time flies and how much great music can come out in a year. Birthday's are a time for celebration and gift giving so I've wrangled together a little something for all of you to celebrate with. Over the past 12 months a number of great tracks have found a happy home in my stereo but for whatever reason or another I never covered them on the site. As a 1st [...]

Gotye . I've been urged to blog about Wally De Backer's music for a while now. Don't you dare ask me why I haven't. Maybe I thought you weren't ready for this? Maybe I simply kept forgetting to? Well whatever the reason, Gotye's music has remained, for the most part, a nicely kept secret. Last year, this tune, "Learnalilgivinanlovin'" was released in various parts of the world, but garnered very little exposure for the young Australian artist. Luckily, Backer will receive his very first US release with a 73 single for "Learnalilgivinanlovin'." It will be backed by a [...]

go go power rangers - "tippin' on my dick" (download) If it wasn't for Noah Bennett , I wouldn't know anything about 17 year old L.A. producer Jeremy Hawkins (aka JHawk) . I still don't know a lot about him, but what I do know is that this kid is prolific. He's been making beats for his L.A. friends for a while now. According to his bio, he's made over 1,000 beats in the past 6 years. That means he started making beats when he [...]