
It's the 15th of the month, Music Alliance pact day! Music Alliance Pact (MAP) is a collaboration between 34 blogs from all over the world, and every month, each of us present a new band from our country. All presentations are put together in this huge blogpost, and presented on the same day in all the MAP blogs. Massive promotion for the bands! This is the January edition, and the Norwegian band this month is Sacred Harp. Enjoy MAP! NORWAY : [...]
Jan 15, 2010, 12:40am
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Time for the first MAP post of the year. We have 34 songs from all around the world selected by the 34 contributing bloggers. The Finnish representative this month is Ville Lankinen with his electronic music project Vishnudata. Remember that you can download all the songs together with the link at the bottom of the [...]
Novo ano e vida nova para a Music Alliance Pact, com mais um mês com 34 apostas de trinta e quatro países.Janeiro leva-nos novamente ao Porto com o projecto de Sérgio Costa (voz e guitarras) com André Couto (baixo), Edgar Moreira (samplers) e Filipe Pereira (bateria). Todos os fãs das bandas que os Malcontent citam como referências (Jesus & Mary Chain, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club,...),

34 songs, 34 music blogs, 34 countries JAPAN : JPOP Lover Green Blossoms - Hana Akari Green Blossoms are folky duo Aiko Koga and Anthony Guerra. Aiko sings and plays ukulele, Anthony plays the other instruments. They released their second album, Whiskey Leaves, on US-based Digitalis Recordings last summer. Hana Akari is beautiful, softly-intoned songwriting and its ghostly incantations will stick [...]

La propuesta para la primera edición de MAP del 2010 viene por parte de una de las bandas más energéticas y frescas de nuestra escena, me refiero a La Mente y su último lanzamiento titulado Para Los Muertos y Los Vivientes, ¿su estilo? pues La Mente bebe de todo, pero sin duda el punto que más llama la atención en sus creaciones es esa inclusión exacta de beats electrónicos, fusionados con música tropical o hasta el recientemente explotado sonido amazónico, el grado de experimentación desatado provoca en cualquiera que asista a sus presentaciones una locura insostenible, [...]

Ianuarie nu înseamnă doar un an nou calendaristic pentru noi, ci şi începutul celui de-al doilea an de MAP ca reprezentanţi ai României. Luna aceasta vă oferim o piesă de pe proaspătul lansat album numărul 2 semnat Aievea. După o pauză de 6 ani, se întorc cu un material cel puţin la fel de frumos ca şi debutul. Nu-jazz de cea mai bună calitate. Enjoy! Aievea - Joy Of Life Vlaicu Golcea and Electric Brother are two incredibly [...]

Listen HERE Here's today's playlist... Future Sounds #23 - May 11th, 2009 [...]

¿Qué cómo le fue a Los Telecaster en México este año? Descarga el documento (.pdf) y quédate con la boca abierta. Resumen: Grabaron un nuevo disco que saldrá a mitad de año con distribución en aquel país, los guitarristas se convirtieron en artistas Gibson y la banda es patrocinada por una marca de ropa llamada Yakuza Denim , grabaron dos videoclips y tocaron con un gentío del verdadero undergroung mexicano que incluye a los Hong Kong Blood Opera ( +info ), los Rebel Cats y Pastilla . Pero [...]

Dear fonogramaticos have a nice Halloween, dress well and please give away good candy, don't be cheap! Niños y Niñas beware of adults and careful with your candy. If anyone is throwing a party, post it in the comments, we've been invited to The Horror-Gore Show in Mexico City (Descartes a Kant & Hong Kong Blood Opera performing) while Babaluca is throwing a free party in Tempe (AZ) so get your costumes ready! I'll be a cat… [...]

THE CRITICAL PAPARAZZI HONG KONG BLOOD OPERA Noiselab, Mexico **** Rating: 82 By Jean-Stephane Beriot The awesome blog Brooklyn Vegan posted about this hard rock Mexican band a few months ago and I was magnetically attracted right away. Later on, our guru Carlinhos sent me a physical edition of The Critical Paparazzi , their first and exceptionally confident [...]

It's SXSW. A>Z Anamanaguchi - Power Supply ( alt link ) New York's premier 8-bit rockers Anamanaguchi , charming stuff that comes off more organic than a lot of 8-bit you hear. Aonomi - Misodisko ( alt link ) Aonomi are from Tokyo and totally nail their Gameboys into submission. Bird Peterson - Twurk Central ( alt link ) Pure danceable breaks beats and bass [...]