Monthly Archives: April 2009

“Birdsongs, Beesongs, – Eardrums spring compilation 2009” finally complete! Volume c and d released today.

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Tweet Volume C and D of our spring compilation was released today, so now we can present 4 volumes of free and legal spring-time pop for you. Like always, all the artists/labels involved has approved the songs. I would like to send a HUGE THANK YOU to all the bands, artists and labels involved in this project, and to all the wonderful illustrators who have spent hours and days to make these fabulous paintings and illustrations for the cover art. …

New songs and album from Lacrosse

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Tweet Sweden’s Lacrosse will soon release their second album, and I am really looking forward to this. Their debut was brilliant, and it’s still being played a lot on my stereo. The album is called ‚Bandages For The Heart’ and will be out on Tapete Records this spring. Here is a song from the album, “I see a brightness” : Lacrosse – I see a Brightness (from Tapete Records) …and here’s another song from the album, as a video, “We …

My Little Pony feat. Bedroom Eyes + an announcement

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Tweet Sorry for the lack of posts here recently. I just need a little blog-free time, and hopefully I will be back soon with regular posts. Good news is that TOMORROW, I will publish volume C and D of the spring compilation “Birdsongs, Beesongs”, and I PROMISE that I will. I’m uploading now, so everything is finished. Here is a little nice video from two of my favourite artists, playing together: My Little Pony featuring Bedroom Eyes – A song …

New song from Robert Svensson

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Tweet In many ways twitter has been “my blog” for a while, where I in a few words have said what I am excited about. I will continue to use twitter as a part of the blog, with instant messages about good things that I don’t feel for writing a big piece about in Eardrums, so check out www.twitter.com/eardrums . Now, actually on twitter, I found out that Robert Svensson has a new song out for free download, and it …

Music Alliance Pact, – April edition – 25 blogs, 25 countries, 25 artists, 25 songs

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Tweet 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 …

Ólafur Arnalds – ‘found songs’ – one free song every day this week

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Tweet I am quite excited about the fine Icelandic artist Ólafur Arnalds’ new project- ‘found songs’. Every day this week, he will compose, record and release a new song on the project’s website. The first one was published yesterday, – a stunningly beautiful piano composition. The next will follow today. On his twitter, http://www.twitter.com/OlafurArnalds , he will announce when he has finished a song, and if you go to this page http://foundsongs.erasedtapes.com/ you will find all the songs when they …

Finally, “Birdsongs, Beesongs VOLUME B” is ready for download!

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Tweet COVER ART BY SCOTT VAN PELT Finally, I have uploaded volume B of our spring compilation “Birdsongs, Beesongs”. You will find the link to the download-page below. I am really sorry for the delay. My health hasn’t been too friendly with me lately, and it hasn’t been easy to plan or predict when I could work on the project.  I hope to be able to finish volume B and C and upload them during the week, but at the …

Let me introduce EARDRUMS POP – our label!

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Tweet I’ve decided to split the Eardrums releases and the Eardrums blog, so from now on everything related to the Eardrums compilations and all future creative projects will be found on the new EARDRUMS POP website. It’s here, – http://www.eardrumspop.com. I will still announce all Eardrums releases here on the blog, but Eardrums Pop will be the place to get them and to get the freshest news about them. (All the previous releases can still be found here on Eardrums …