
Canadian hip hop and Spanish indie rock, all in one week?! Yes, we're asking you to open your minds, but we're rewarding you with exquisite treats. Spain's Boat Beam first came to our attention due to a collaboration they did with another great Spanish band called Havalina. The real treat came when we listened to their debut record, Puzzle Shapes. Beautiful female vocals wrapped around a deluge of sounds and instruments that come together to create brilliant quirky, pop songs. This is how pop should sound in our world. Josephine from Boat Beam took [...]

Bonjour à tous ! Une riche semaine de concerts, de rencontres et de découvertes musicales s'achève. Dimanche matin, ou l'occasion d'en faire le bilan et de le partager avec vous à l'heure du petit déjeuner... Et première découverte lors du festival tremplin Génération Réservoir où j'ai fait connaissance avec la musique de Lili Ster. Lili Ster est parisienne, auteur-compositeur-interprète . Ses compositions ne racontent ni plus ni moins que la vie d'une jeune femme d'aujourd'hui, avec son lot de coups de foudre, de ruptures amoureuses... Bref, en quelques sortes un patchwork [...]

The Music Alliance Pact (MAP) began in October 2008 as an initiative to facilitate the spread of local music to the ears of others around the world. It started with 12 country specific blogs who each selected one hot local track that was posted on the sites of each of the other members of this "union". Now there are 26 countries included and I'm loving the diversity of the artists that get chosen. It's such a great idea--it makes heaps of sense that someone who lives and breathes a countries music, culture and language would be the one in the [...]

The Music Alliance Pact (MAP) began in October 2008 as an initiative to facilitate the spread of local music to the ears of others around the world. It started with 12 country specific blogs who each selected one hot local track that was posted on the sites of each of the other members of this "union". Now there are 26 countries included and I'm loving the diversity of the artists that get chosen. It's such a great idea--it makes heaps of sense that someone who lives and breathes a countries music, culture and language would be the one in the [...]