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 [...]
I'd like to see a tally on how many blogs will have mixes for Memorial Day. I haven't really been looking around, but I'm sure they're floating around out there. Regardless, what's a Memorial Day without some music. You know what they say: music makes the memories last (...) !! For good measure, I'm going to start this mix off with a British group. For Memorial Day's sake. [image via Publishers Weekly ] Bloc Party - "I Still Remember" [MP3] (from A Weekend In The City ) [...]
We can only assume that Parachute Penguin put their name together when considering the flight (or non-flight) of the penguin. Which presupposes that someone is just sick or creative enough to strap a penguin to a parachute and throw the mixture from the door of a moving airplane. How that relates to the college-rock mixdown, Edge-like guitar riffs, and the infectious disease that is their chorus,
Here's the fourth installment of the only music-blog-based global initiative that I know of, Music Pact Alliance, which is best thought of as an indie-fied United Nations: hipsters tweaking their perfectly groomed 'staches and fluffing their v-necked chest hair whilst leading a discussion on the best music the world has to offer. As the first MAP of the new year, this edition aims (indirectly) as a guide for bands to watch for 2009. Whether you're from Brooklyn or the Balkans, you'll want to check out this list. As Nathaniel so eloquently put it last month: "Three [...]
MAP just keeps getting better and better. Again there have been new countries added to the mix and for the first time my colleagues at MAP have been given exclusive songs to share with the world. Check out each song individually or download the convenient .zip file at the bottom. AMERICA – I Guess I'm Floating Blind Man's Colour – Jimmy Dove Blind Man's Colour came on our radar in late '08 with three excellent Animal Collective covers. With their debut album, Season Dreaming , [...]
MAP - Music Alliance Pact #4 Quarto appuntamento con l'esperimento internazionale del Music Pact Alliance (riassunto delle puntate precedenti: qui , qui e qui ) e si aggiungono nuovi Paesi. Vi annoiate? La lista è troppo lunga da leggere? (devo ancora trovare un buon modo per fare i "post espandibili" su Blogspot). Commenti e consigli su come proseguire al meglio questa collaborazione sono sempre graditi. Per scaricare tutte le canzoni in un solo click, ecco il link . [...]
Every month on the 15th, we present Music Alliance Pact here on Eardrums. 21 music blogs from 21 countries all over the world present their favourite band from their own country. Eardrums represents Norway. Thanks to The Pop Cop -blog for the initiative. Here are this months MAP-bands: AMERICA – I Guess I'm Floating Blind Man's Colour – Jimmy Dove Blind Man's [...]
AMERICA – I Guess I'm Floating Blind Man's Colour – Jimmy Dove Blind Man's Colour came on our radar in late '08 with three excellent Animal Collective covers. With their debut album, Season Dreaming, coming out sometime in early '09 and Jimmy Dove as their first explosive single, they've got a good chance of becoming my favorite find of 2009 less than one month in. They've also got a free EP called Rainbow [...]
Cuarta entrega de MAP y la primera para el 2009, esta vez el turno ha sido para la banda nacional Los Turbopotamos, con su más reciente sencillo "Terrorize You / Disco Flor", han dado que hablar mucho todo el año pasado y de hecho he tenido que incluirlos, la fuerza que va tomando este proyecto va en aumento y por medio de Zona Indie me entero que el periodista Facundo García del diario Página 12 de Argentino ha escrito un extenso artículo sobre MAP, puedes leer la nota desde aquí , o ver una imagen del [...]
The Music Alliance Pact is taking over the planet. We know this because Página 12 , one of the biggest newspapers in Argentina, featured our worldwide music sharing project in a full-page article last week. Our Spanish is a little rusty so we put the text through an online translator. What follows is possibly the most extraordinary words you will ever read... To communicate with songs. This is the slogan of Music Alliance Pact ("Agreement of Alliance of the Music"), a network of blogs that came already to twenty-two countries, including [...]
Good news : incepand cu 2009, babylonoise face parte din Music Alliance Pact (M.A.P.) o initiativa mondiala menita sa stranga muzica independenta si noua de pe intreg mapamondul in articole ce vor fi publicate in fiecare luna pe data de 15. Momentan sunt 21 de bloguri reprezentand 21 de tari, dar sper ca in curand MAP va putea deveni cu adevarat un fenomen muzical global cu bloguri din toate cele 192 de tari formand Natiunile Muzicale Unite . Ma preocupa problema globalizarii si cred ca MAP face numai lucruri bune promovand muzica independenta din locuri mai [...]
i can't believe it's been a month already! in this issue, we welcome the new addition to MAP , romanian blog babylon noise . interestingly, some of the bands featured this time round have certain geographical references, such as australian band the middle east and icelandic band singapore sling . our own singaporean entry is "jaded afghan" from i am david sparkle . i also have the pleasure of announcing that i am david sparkle has been selected at the sxsw festival in austin texas this march, so those of you who are planning [...]
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Music Alliance Pact – February 2012
A-Trak - "Round of Applause" / "Where My Money At" (MP3 Download)
