Super 45 forma parte del Music Alliance Pact (MAP), una iniciativa de The Pop Cop que reune canciones destacadas de músicos locales de 34 países, una vez al mes. A continuación podrán disfrutar de todos los temas y un link para descargar todo el compilado CHILE: Super 45 Astro - Raifilter Junto a los electro-poppers Moustache!, Astro (Andrés Nusser y Octavio Cavieres) es una [...]
ARGENTINA: Zonaindie Entre Ríos - Frontera Finally we get the chance to showcase this great indie-pop band from Buenos Aires on MAP. Entre Ríos is a musical project led by Sebastian Carreras (vocals, keyboards, guitar) that has been around since 1998. Their first albums were recorded with Isol as the main singer, but since her departure in 2005 they've featured different guest vocalists live and in the studio. Frontera is a MAP-exclusive [...]

The Music Alliance Pact is a collective of 34 of the world's top music blogs and webzines from 34 countries spanning six continents. Every month, each of these 34 sites picks one hot local song that gets posted on all these great blogs and zines. This month we picked Kolkata experimental rock act PINKNOISE 's 'Dream Dream' as the Indian representative on this massive international indie mixtape. The song comes from the band's soon-to-be-released live DVD. You can download 'Dream Dream' along with 33 other tracks from regions as diverse as Denmark, Brazil and Portugal [...]

Time's whipping by so fast that I have to start planning out these last weeks of 2009 on CTRR. Last year, there were several festive year-end features on the old yuletide blog (groan if you must), including my Year-End Round-Up weekly mixes , the countdown of my Top 40 albums of the year , the Christmas weekly mix , and the New Year's Eve party mix . And I still have to work in my Day of 200 songs before all of this kicks off. This week's mix will be a winter one despite [...]

Penúltima edición del MAP de este año, esta vez con la participación de una banda que ya venía haciendo ruido desde hace tiempo. Nuestra historia rockera es larga y grande, es algo que quizá estábamos olvidando, pero aquí están Los Protones dándonos un boleto de ida y vuelta a nuestros inicios con un rock instrumental que se acopla perfectamente con más de una circunstancia que vivimos a diario, son garage, surf, o como quieras llamarlos con la esencia sesentera en sus venas. Próximos conciertos *20 nov 2009 22:00 Concierto pro fondos 2do [...]

Once more, here is November'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. No new MAP countries were added for this edition, so we're sitting solid at 34 countries. If you'd like to be considered, drop by the comments section with a link to your site and I'll [...]

We're so excited about this month's Music Alliance Pact we could explode since it gives us the exclusive privilege of inviting the world to download an incredible song by Scotland's best new band of 2010 and makes us want to use exclamation marks in a frenzied fashion!!! As ever, each country's mp3 selection and the words that go with them come courtesy of the individual blogs, who simultaneously post the entire collection you see below on their own sites. Here for your pleasure then is the world's greatest monthly mixtape... SCOTLAND: [...]

It's the 15th of November, Music Alliance pact day! Music Alliance Pact (MAP) is a collaboration between 34 blogs from all over the world, and every month, each of us present a band from our own country. All presentations are put together in this huge blogpost, and presented on the same day in all the MAP blogs. Massive promotion for the bands! This month is kind of special for the us at Eardrums, since it's 1YEAR since we first started representing Norway in the Music Alliance Pact . Yay for us! I've [...]
over the 12 months of being part of MAP , we've brought you the best of singapore music, from the established veterans ( concave scream , force vomit , astreal ) to the current flag bearers ( i am david sparkle , the fire fight ), spanning across genre from electronica ( MUON ), folk and acoustic ( jon chan , inch chua ), indiepop ( leeson ), post-hardcore ( a vacant affair ), and some good ol' rock ( nuance ), faithfully curated by our local music ambassador brian koh . this month, [...]
ARGENTINA: Zonaindie Entre Ríos - Frontera Finally we get the chance to showcase this great indie-pop band from Buenos Aires on MAP. Entre Ríos is a musical project led by Sebastian Carreras (vocals, keyboards, guitar) that has been around since 1998. Their first albums were recorded with Isol as the main singer, but since her departure in 2005 they've featured different guest vocalists live and in the studio. Frontera is a MAP-exclusive [...]

E 15 noiembrie, ceea ce înseamnă o nouă ediţie a megacompilaţiei MAP [download] . Silent Strike reprezintă luna asta România, iar dacă numele nu vă zice nimic, el e omul care a făcut muzica pentru reclamele promo la Sibiu, capitală culturală, în 2007. Silent Strike - 27 Silent Strike (Ioan Titu) is a 27-year-old electronic music composer and sound designer from Bacau. He is influenced by Aphex Twin, Future [...]

34 songs, 34 music blogs, 34 countries JAPAN: JPOP Lover Sebastian X - Tour Star People Sebastian X are an impressive Tokyo-based outfit with indie-pop and punkish leanings. Their brilliant debut album Wonderful World was finally released last week. The band, who don't use guitars, have catchy melodies driven by the cute pop vocal of Manatsu Nagahara. [...]
Bulan ini kami mengirim Santamonica sebagai perwakilan dari Indonesia ke forum Music Alliance Pact, semoga dengan ini musik berkualitas dari Indonesia dapat lebih didengar lagi. :) dan seperti biasa, apakah sudah siap keliling dunia melalui lagu-lagu terbaik bulan ini? Scroll sampai bawah untuk mendapatkan link download keseluruhan materi. ARGENTINA: Zonaindie Entre Ríos - Frontera Finally we get the chance to showcase this great indie-pop [...]
Rose Elinor Dougall - who has been thriving since dropping off the end of The Pipettes - is squeezing in a couple of dates before Christmas: 3rd Dec - LONDON Wild & Innocent @ Hoxton Bar & Kitchen 5th Dec - CHESTER Telford's Warehouse 6th Dec - YORK Fibbers And, as you ponder if it's worth taking Merseyrail to its wildest reaches, here's what you could expect:
Toronto - I'm already a fan of this VV Brown woman, as indicated by my review of her album . Recently she has posted some good acoustic covers of popular songs including Beyonce's Crazy in Love , Kid Cudi's Day n Nite and Drake's Best I Ever Had . Good stuff..check it out Crazy in Love Day n Nite Best I've Ever Had Is it weird I've never [...]

So why not send our former intern, Jenny Booth, to a festival in the UK, right? Heck, if it helps her with a press pass, we feel pretty damn good about it. -Ed. Having studied my degree in Cardiff—and always longed for a music festival on my doorstep—it was downright mean of Swn Fest's organizers to start it up the year I left school. Three years on, though, and I'm finally in the right place at the right time—if a little apprehensive as to how one of the world's smallest capital cities will rival last months [...]
Toronto - Welcome to the first of what I can only imagine to be a handful articles about songs we've liked in the past 10 years. A lot of other sites are making lists. Well, I say, fuck lists. My head would explode anyways if I tried it so anyways. Instead, I shall just write about a bunch of songs I liked in the past ten years. First one up is the song Shining Light off Ash . Its hard to believe the album Free All Angels is only 9 years old. It was [...]

Terrorbird at CMJ + Updated Schedule of Bands Free show! Free Red Bull Vodka! Free cupcakes! Wed 10/21 @ Cakeshop (152 Ludlow) 12-6pm 12:00-12:30 - DJ Caroline 12:30-1:00 Tempo No Tempo 1:20--1:50 - Turbo Fruits (Fat Possum) 2:10 -2:40 - Silver Starling (Last Gang) 3:00 - 3:30 - ZAZA (Kanine) 3:50-4:20 - Warpaint (Manimal) 4:40-5:10 - Darlings (Famous Class) 5:30-6:00 - Black Hollies (Ernest Jennings Rec. Co) [...]
I used to wonder why The Pipettes weren't huge. So much about them - three attractive girls, polka dot dress 'uniforms', sparkling pop songs, synchronised dancing - shouted Saturday night TV entertainment rather than sweaty indie dives. So I can only assume it was the lack of a major label ...