
Today's song is "Get Away" by The Lights Out . Boston rockers will be releasing a track every week to get fans excited about their upcoming LP On Fire . This week ESBMusic is featuring the exclusive track, which is sung by NJ native Adam Ritchie. As for the track, Adam Ritchie says this, "This is what happens when you've gotten the thing you worked for, routine creeps in and instead of just enjoying it, you're weighed down by a single track stretching into the future. You've been in one place longer than expected, and [...]
Mondays are for exclusives... First, a premiere from Boston band The Lights Out. About the song by drummer and singer Jesse James: "This song is about an experience I had with a bully growing up. Every day he'd pick on me during the same walk from one class to the another, and one day I [...]

As a special Dance.Here.Now event, the legendary Steve Lawler , who made his name playing marathon sets at Space Ibiza in the 902s, will be coming to an open-air market in Brooklyn and playing a daytime set from 3 PM-9 PM. We will be giving away a pair of tickets and also a signed copy of his 'Lights Out- Decade' compilation. The album includes amazing tracks from the likes of Livio and Roby, Audiofly, Frivolous, and Ralph Berr. To win both the the tickets and the signed album, simply like the facebook post HERE. A winner will be chosen [...]

World Premiere! mp3 from the new LP "On Fire" is out 6/1/12 Boston is a fast-moving, rapidly developing music scene these days. And without a compass it's easy to lose one's direction. One thing hasn't changed since for this music blogger in [...]

Presentamos la edición de marzo de Music Alliance Pact (MAP), iniciativa del blog escocés The Pop Cop , que compila canciones destacadas de músicos locales de más de 30 países, y de la cual Super45 forma parte desde hace más de 2 años. Este mes destacamos a Matías Cena & Los Fictions con su tema "Raíz", perteneciente a su flamante álbum Arauco Cajún . CHILE : Super 45 Matías Cena & Los Fictions - [...]
Click the play button icon to listen to individual songs, right-click on the song title to download an mp3, or grab a zip file of the whole 38-track compilation here . ARGENTINA : Zonaindie Yataians - What A Man's Got To Do Yataians is a Buenos Aires-based band with a rocksteady sound heavily influenced by Jamaican artists from the 60s and 70s, such as The [...]

El Music Alliance Pact es una comunidad con sede en 38 países y tienen como finalidad dar a conocer sus sonidos al resto del mundo, esta gran labor viene proponiendo alternativas musicales desde hace más de 3 años y SoTB es parte de ella. Es 16, sí, ha habido un retraso y voy a castigarme por ello. A disfrutar! Click the play button icon to listen to individual songs, right-click on the song title to download an mp3, or grab a zip file of the whole 38-track compilation here [...]

Este mês, o Music Alliance Pact traz um tema (e o vídeo), "The Strangest Friend", de uma banda de Coimbra que, apesar de "Drunken Sailors & Happy Pirates" ser já o seu terceiro álbum, é praticamente desconhecida no seu país, Portugal, para além daqueles poucos que seguem e divulgam com interesse e amor a nossa música. No entanto, a sua obra já lhes rendeu glórias em alguma imprensa internacional como, por exemplo, na revista francesa Les Inrockuptibles, o que é, como sabemos, sempre um grande passo para serem conhecidos e divulgados em Portugal. Com a [...]

Earlier this Year, I was contacted by Matthew Pollesel, the man behind long-running Canadian music blog i(heart)music . Matt had decided to give blogging a rest, and in doing so was looking for someone to take over the Canadian leg of the Music Alliance Pact (MAP), a monthly jaunt around the musical globe featuring contributions from bloggers all over the world, who put together a collective post featuring their favourite new music from home. I was honoured to be asked, and proud to join the MAP ranks. Today's marks my initial contribution, and MAP's debut outing on Quick Before [...]

Enjoy the musical stylings of Sterling EQ.Click the play button icon to listen to individual songs, right-click on the song title to download an song, or grab a file of the whole compilation here . SOUTH AFRICA : Musical Mover & Shaker! Sterling EQ - Bach's Kittens At Play Sterling Electric Quartet, affectionately known as Sterling EQ, burst on to the scene with their genre-defying musical style [...]

The delicate, precious sounds of Mike Nisbet represent Scotland in this month's Music Alliance Pact - he truly is an outstanding prospect. The Pop Cop's counterparts in Colombia, El Parlante Amarillo , made a neat video about this project which features an interview with our Mexican MAP blogger. Check it out here, señoras y señores: Click the play button icon to listen to individual songs, right-click on the song title to download an [...]

Þá er komið að þeim tíma mánaðarins að músíkbloggarar víðsvegar um heiminn taka höndum saman og skella í eina alþjóðalega fimbulfærslu. Sem fyrr er allt á ensku (sem ætti nú ekki að vefjast fyrir nokkrum íslendingi) en tónlistin allavega og allskonar í öllum regnbogans litum og á mörgum framandi og skemmtilegum tungumálum. Click the play button icon to listen to individual songs, right-click on the song title to download an mp3, or grab a zip file of the whole 38-track compilation here . ARGENTINA : [...]
Click the play button icon to listen to individual songs, right-click on the song title to download an mp3, or grab a zip file of the whole 38-track compilation here . ARGENTINA : Zonaindie Yataians - What A Man's Got To Do Yataians is a Buenos Aires-based band with a rocksteady sound heavily influenced by Jamaican artists from the 60s and 70s, such as The [...]

SINGAPORE : I'm Waking Up To... Shelves - Star Alright The much-anticipated debut album by Shelves was released this month on both vinyl and digital , resurrecting not just the choicest cuts of Britpop and college rock, but the very essence of the 90s Singapore scene. Yet the record sounds anything but dated, with its clever balance of crisp melodies and generous distortion pointing the way forward for indie rock today. That vision [...]
Music Review: Lights Out by Big Deal Is Big Deal a big deal? That will be the inevitable question East London indie duo Big Deal runs into as they promote their debut album, Lights Out. The band's title is audacious in its presence; it forces you to ask one of two things: Does the band actually [...]
Talk is the forthcoming single from Big Deals debut album "Lights Out"