
What do you get when you combine gypsy punk music from Australia with Steve Albini's Chicago based production. Well it's just what you would expect and their name is The Crooked Fiddle Band . This is their second album and it was produced in Chicago with Steve Albini one cold winter. Overgrown Tales is 8 tracks of mostly instrumental tunes of whirling dervish string band music. Listen to "Countess Bathory's Finishing School for Girls" to see how punk and string music can possibly be mated. [...]
MAP - Music Alliance Pact #5 Nuovo appuntamento con l'esperimento internazionale del Music Pact Alliance (riassunto delle puntate precedenti: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 ). A questo giro i nomi già noti sono un po' più presenti (vedi Broken Records, Let's Wrestle, Here We Go Magic...) ma mi sembra ci sia comunque parecchia carne al fuoco. Per chi vuole scaricare tutta la lista in colpo solo ecco il link . Come al solito, commenti e consigli [...]
Este mês, a Music Alliance Pact foi notícia no Mtv da Roménia (foto), graças ao blog romeno, que faz parte desta "liga", o Babylon Noise.P.S. Sejam pacientes, por favor, ainda não tive a oportunidade de traduzir todos os textos dos blogs. AMÉRICA: I Guess I'm Floating4 Here We Go Magic – TunnelvisionHere We Go Magic, de Brooklyn, é o projecto folk-pop, de quarto,de Luke Temple, que lançara o seu

Here's February's edition of the Music Alliance Pact. For those of you who don't know about MAP, it's a collection of music blogs from around the world who band together once a month to shed light on up-and-comers from their home countries. It's sort of like the WTO without the human rights violations. This month we've welcomed Mexican blog Club Fonograma to bring the total participation to 22 nations. Our contribution this month includes an excellent track from Brooklyn-based Here We Go Magic . Nathaniel's decree has become somewhat [...]

PressPlay - chosen by our Portugese MAP blog partner - Posso Ouvir Um Disco? . MAP (Music Alliance Pact) is a monthly feature where music bloggers across the world share a track from their home country that they think you should hear. 22 blogs are submitting their country's pick this month. My Irish contribution is Tenaka who I suggest you get on right away. Let's get right to it. AMERICA – I Guess I'm Floating Here We Go [...]

More music, more exclusives, more premieres of the best music from around the world courtesy of some of the best country specific music blogs in the world. That's M.A.P. and this is the February edition. AMERICA – I Guess I'm Floating Here We Go Magic – Tunnelvision Brooklyn's Here We Go Magic is the bedroom folk-pop project of Luke Temple, who is releasing his self-titled debut this year. He has been praised by Sufjan Stevens and Ben Gibbard for his uniquely [...]

The 15th day of the month means Music Alliance Pact time, when the blogging community comes together to offer up their favourite song for the world's ears. Think of it as the international invasion it's OK to support. Last month we welcomed Babylon Noise to the party - a development so significant it was reported by MTV Romania no less, and with a fair degree of enthusiasm by the young brunette presenter, who is clearly a [...]

This is our very first input on MAP, the Music Alliance Pact, a blogosphere project by The Pop Cop which invites 22 different publishers from different countries to showcase a monthly recommendation to share to the world. I found the idea to be splendid and the collective contribution by our now fellow bloggers is exciting to say the least. Club Fonograma is representing Mexico, which I know it's odd considering I don't live in Mexico (but I was born there) and the blog is in English, but let's face it, the big majority of the content comes from [...]

Music Alliance Pact are din luna februarie inca un blog, reprezentand Mexicul. Multa muzica buna vine din acea zona, dar presupun ca vor promova rock en espanol mai mult decat, sa zicem, Lucha Reyes . Cu alte cuvinte MAP a ajuns la 22 de tari si creste. Asa cum v-am obisnuit, fiecare blog din fiecare tara a propus cate o melodie deci avem 22 de artisti din tari diferite,piese destul de noi.Din Romania, in aceasta luna ii avem pe The Amsterdams care se pregatesc de un album nou, dupa EP-ul de anul trecut. Ma pot astepta [...]

Es 15 de Febrero y toca otra entrega de MAP (Music Alliance Pact), tengo que el capitulo del mes pasado ha sido uno de los que más me ha gustado, he conocido muchas buenas bandas que ya comentare despues, para Febrero la misión de elegir a nuestro candidato no ha sido difícil, de hecho me parece que "Covida" se ha convertido en la mejor canción rock pop que haya salido de estos lugares, gracias a Catervas por la canción y definitivamente tienes que escucharla, todo un clasico para nunca sacarla de tu reproductor mp3. Para descargar las 22 [...]
for those of you who are new to this, the music alliance pact is a monthly project with blogs from all over the world featuring their respective local music selections, initiated and organized by jason the pop cop from scotland. this month, we welcome another new member - club fonograma from mexico, which brings the map representation up to 22 countries. this time round, our own singaporean selection is indie rock band nuance , who also happen to be playing a free gig at the mosaic music festival at the esplanade concourse on 18th [...]

The Crooked Fiddle Band - 'The Rom Rebellion' ( mp3 ) More furious fiddling from The Crooked Fiddle Band , these guys have a new EP called Rise which they are touring now. I've been getting into bands like Balkan Beat Box, and while these guys are different, I like the punk element in the songs, it just sounds like a whole lot of fun to watch. I'm gonna check them out this weekend at The Spiegeltent, part of the Sydney Festival, it's a free event so come along. If you can't make it, [...]