AMERICA: I Guess I'm Floating 4 Thing One – Mop Yards New Jersey's Thing One have been on my radar since last year when I first heard a few tracks from their debut album You'll Be Fine. Mop Yards brings traces of The Smiths and ELO into the new millennium with strange electronic warbles and dancey synth [...]
Another great batch of songs from the blogger of MAP. There's some amazing songs below - chenk `em out. AMERICA: I Guess I'm Floating 4 Thing One – Mop Yards New Jersey's Thing One have been on my radar since last year when I first heard a few tracks from their [...]

MAP (Music Alliance Pact) the global music blogger mixtape is back! 24 music bloggers across the world share a track from their home country that they think you should hear. My track this month is from the excellent 202s and I'm pretty sure this post is the only time you'll ever an Idol winner (above) on this blog! See the full post for all 24 MP3s. AMERICA: I Guess I'm Floating [...]

It's the 15th, and another month with music from around the world in our monthly series Music Alliance Pact (MAP). MAP is a collaboration between bloggers from 25 different countries who present music from their own country. The MAP post is published on the same day on all these blogs, and Eardrums represent Norway. This month, we have a new member of the Pact, - the blog Glue from Finland. Welcome! Here are this months MAP songs! AMERICA: I Guess I'm [...]

Luna aprilie vine cu un nou blog din Finlanda - Glue si cu Persona din Timisoara. AMERICA: I Guess I'm Floating Thing One – Mop Yards New Jersey's Thing One have been on my radar since last year when I first heard a few tracks from their debut [...]
it's time for yet another anticipated issue of MAP, the program that brings you the best music from around the world, as chosen by music blog representatives from their respective countries. an initiative fronted by scotland's the pop cop , MAP now features 25 different countries, with finland's glue being the latest addition. as the local ambassador to MAP, i'm waking up to is proud to bring you the best from singapore, as chosen every month by our local music correspondent brian koh , who plays in singaporean band leeson . this month, [...]

The 15th of the month means Music Alliance Pact day, when music blogs share the best their country has to offer with the rest of the world. Thanks to the latest addition of Finland's Glue , MAP now stands at 25 blogs/members/nations. It is raging out of control but we did create this monster. As Scotland representatives, it's our job to pick 12 acts per year to foist upon an unsuspecting global audience, so we choose very carefully. We hope you agree April's selection is a worthy one, be sure to let us know what [...]
A llegado el 15 de Abril y es hora de otra edición de MAP , especialmente recomendada, vengo escuchando unas cuantas canciones de la colección de este mes y me esta gustando mucho, no te preocupes, esta vez me he dado el trabajo de traducir las descripciones para hacer mas disfrutable tu atención, de hecho es algo que vale la pena, ten en cuenta que son grandes sonidos que quizá nunca llegarías a escuchar, ese fue el objetivo de MAP y se cumple de manera perfecta aquí y en 24 países más. Autobus [...]

When the much-loved Aereogramme split up last year, there was little talk over who would fill the gap since they essentially represented a Glasgow-dominated post-rock scene whose popularity peaked at least half a dozen years ago. So that might explain why, on being introduced to the sounds of atmospheric newcomers THERE WILL BE FIREWORKS , our first reaction of 'This band are quite wonderful' was immediately followed by 'Will anyone care?'. A listen to the Glaswegian quartet's gloriously accomplished [...]