
Ah, Flower Communion Sunday. Traditionally the last Sunday service before a Universalist Unitarian parish moves to a lay-led summer, the Flower Communion celebrates both the contributory nature of the UU community and the natural world by bringing the blooming world into the church at its last, and then letting it go back out again as we ourselves turn to the world of social justice and peace-making. The beauty and diversity of life - of our own, and the bounty of the land - is present in the rich cornucopia of the green-stemmed bounty. [...]

The Explorer's Club is new and very interesting subscription-based mp3-club made as a collaboration between Eardrums' favourite LOAF recordings (home of great bands like Dark Captain Light Captain , Seeland, Vincent Oliver and others), and Arctic Circle , who arranges concerts in London (Efterklang at the Barbican, Notwist at the Union Chapel, etc). For one year, starting in January, the new club will release new digital singles once a month from 30 artists from all over the world. The singles will include two or three exclusive [...]

Playlist #2: 6 songs. " Tuning up the radio: From feedback & fuzz to bright & gleaming tunes. " 1. Feedle - Picturedrome (New) 2. People of Water - Vale of Aching Hearts 3. Internet Forever - Break Bones (New) 4. Head & Neck Sessions - Twelve Twelve 5. Stricken City - Lost Art (New) 6. Smile Down Upon Us - My Body's Continent (New) NOTES: [...]

About a month ago, I first heard the music of Smile Down Upon Us , an English/Japanese trio comprising Keiron Phelan, David Sheppard and moomLooo . The music struck me instantly with its beauty and "differentness". It sounded like nothing I've heard before, yet it wasn't strange or unfamiliar. I'm in some ways reminded of the sound of some modern, experimenting pop artists like Björk, Múm, Deerhoof or Tenniscoats , - but this is at the same time very different than all of them. Now, their self titled debut [...]