
It's the 15th, another month, and another Music Alliance Pact-presentation. The Music Alliance Pact (MAP) is a collaboration between 25 blogs from 25 countries (Spain is not participating this month, so we're 24 this month), and every month on the 15th all the blogs post the same post, – this one -, with 25 songs and band-presentations from the countries in the Music Alliance Pact. Eardrums represents Norway, and this time we will tell you about a new band called Firetop Mountain . The countries and the songs are listed alphabetically below. Enjoy another month of Music Alliance Pact! [...]

It's Music Alliance Pact time. You may have noticed that every month we try to describe the concept of MAP in a new way. This month we're going for... a simple but devastatingly effective way to get a song heard by hundreds of thousands of people in over 20 countries and five continents. SCOTLAND: The Pop Cop 4 The Seventeenth Century [...]

MEXICO: Club Fonograma 4 Los Amparito – Por Medio De La Lectura Los Amparito is the mind-blowing, eccentric and absolutely sublime project of Carlos Pensina. He is relatively well known in Mexico's indie scene for his more electronic act Pepepe, but Los Amparito have enormous potential to break into international boundaries. This sound is like a distorted Mexican mirror of traditional [...]

I discovered The Seventeenth Century courtesy of Halina and her team of devilish minions over at Glasgow PodcART a couple of weeks ago. I've tried emailing the band to see about buying a copy of their EP, but no response, so I ended up having to just rip it off MySpace. Still, I'm sure I'll get the chance to make up for it in the future as I am pretty confident we will be hearing more from these lads over the next year or so. People seem to be talking their folky-sounding acoustic indie [...]

This week I am piling on the music snobbery. Oh, okay, I'm not really - if anything I'm undermining it with some truly guilty pleasures. There's not much modern fluffy pop music which I happen to enjoy despite my snobbery because... well, because I just don't think there's anything I can think of which fits that bill at the moment. I know nostalgic guilty pleasures and truly embracing low-brow music purely for the enjoyment of it aren't quite the same thing but I think I've budged about as far as I am going to go on this one. [...]

This week I am piling on the music snobbery. Oh, okay, I'm not really - if anything I'm undermining it with some truly guilty pleasures. There's not much modern fluffy pop music which I happen to enjoy despite my snobbery because... well, because I just don't think there's anything I can think of which fits that bill at the moment. I know nostalgic guilty pleasures and truly embracing low-brow music purely for the enjoyment of it aren't quite the same thing but I think I've budged about as far as I am going to go on this one. [...]