This is the second time I’m doing this kind of shorties post, and it may show that I’m better than I thought on consistency… During a week, I post a lot of news and finds on my twitter @eardrums and I get a lot of email that never gets published on the blog. I’ll try to post some of it here + give you some recommendations to new releases you should buy. Let’s start with some “VERY SHORTIES” and below this, you will find a lot of free goodies and music recommendations:

- Today, one of my favourite unsigned bands, Spaghetti Anywhere, has put several acoustic versions of their songs up on myspace for free download. Check it out here: http://www.last.fm/music/Spaghetti+Anywhere/……%27-__-%27……
- Hybris records is streaming the upcoming album from Sweden’s Kommun on Soundcloud. Sounds very good! Kommun features members of Sibiria, but this time they sing in English.  http://soundcloud.com/hybris/
- The fine 12k label gives away an incredibly beautiful song from Small Color, “Hikari No Hana”, – but it’s only free until October 31. Get it now! – Rough Trade is releasing an indiepop compilation. Indie-Mp3 gives us the tracklisting, and it looks brilliant!
- Tender Trap released a very good free indiepop-single on Fortuna Pop early this week. Download it from here.
- New free song from The Magic Numbers, “Hurt so good”, available from here in exchange of your email address.
- Bearsuit is recording their new album at the moment, and are posting reports from their studio-sessions on twitter.
- Victoria and Jacob are preparing a new  single for the fine Yoga.Parochia label, who will also soon release the debut single from Lulu and the Lampshades.
- According to their twitter @iwasaking, I Was A King have recorded 3 songs with Gary Olson (The Ladybug Transistor), that will be released on a 7″ in January.
- Myspace is getting more useful for musicians with their new Artist Dashboard, – a handy feature!

EARDRUMS (that’s us) is working hard on the making of our new free, digital compilation at the moment. You can read all about it here: http://www.eardrumspop.com.  It will be a collaboration-project in all parts of the process, and it’s really fun working on it. Contact us if you want to be a part of it, either as an artist or as an illustrator. info @ eardrumspop.com .

“The Norwegian SXSW”, By:Larm, will be held in Oslo in February 2010, and the first list of performing bands have now been published on the by:larm website.  Our favourites are especially The Little Hands of Asphalt, Pica Pica, Julie Stokkendal, Kathinka, I see horses, Denga Denga, Therese Aune, Masselys, CCTV, Pow Pow and The Pink Robots.

Beautiful Star – The songs of Odetta is a new benefit compilation curated by Wears the trousers magazine. It features artists like Linda Draper, Ane Brun, Marissa Nadler, Liz Durrett, Sandy Dillon and many more, and it raises money for The Fawcett Society, working for equality between men and women. It’s released on November 30. http://www.myspace.com/songsofodetta

Spoon Train Audio will release a follow up to their Oslo-compilation, called “Oslo2″ . The album will be released 16th November, and it has a tracklisting that makes me happy! Look:
1. Cold Mailman – Time Is Of Essence
2. Hiawata! – Valley Boys
3. Children And Corpse Playing In The Streets – France
4. The Little Hands Of Asphalt – The Next Time We Meet
5. Einar Stray – Arrows
6. Therese Aune – Chamelon
7. Firetop Mountain – How Can You Dance At A Time Like This
8. Go Fandango – End Credits
9. Norma Sass – Born In The 80′s
10. Monzano – Cold Waters
11. Casa Murilo – Murilo I Love You
12. Like Spinning – Crush (And Naivety)
13. Seppuku Zephyr Dance – Carousel
14. Yoyoyo Acapulco – Facial
15. My Little Pony – Capital Of Norway
16. Nomber 5s – Dancing To The Oslo Beat

BEKO is a small French netlabel who I have completely fallen in love with the recent week. They release new digital singles every Monday, and the 3 they have released now are super-good! The first is from Swedens Death & Vanilla, – soothing dream pop in the veins of Broadcast and Stereolab, the second is from USA’s Jamie Long, – dreamy electronica with very nice vocals, and the third is from Woven Tales, instrumental electronics of the good kind. Highly recommended! Upcoming: nude beach, bilinda butchers, million young, tan dollar, procedure club,moscow olympics….http://www.beko-dsl.com/

Lloyd Cole is an old hero of mine, and I am really impressed with the way he uses the web. His site is built by him and his son, and he interacts with his fans actively, answers questions and is really creative with the possibilities this “new” medium gives him. His new idea is this: http://shop.lloydcole.com/products/my-next-album-limited-edition-2-cd-set . I might be one of those 2500 people he needs to finish the project…

Inch Chua is an artist from Singapore who was featured in the October edition of our Music Alliance Pact. I really liked her MAP-song and searched for her on the internet, where I found out that she has released a free download EP on her website. It’s really good, so you should check it out. Acoustic pop, blended with some electronic elements. http://www.inchchua.com/Main/The_Bedroom.html

Race Horses is a Welsh band I have written about here on Eardrums earlier, and their single “Cake” is one of the best singles I have heard this year. Check out this video from Spin Earth featuring the band:

SOME RECOMMENDED RELEASES I HAVE BOUGHT LATELY
Most of these should be available in digital format on either iTunes, 7digital, eMusic, AmieStreet, Klicktrack or from the labels/artists websites.

Piroth – Safe Haven
Nat Johnson and the figureheads – Roman Radio
Local Natives – Camera Talk (single)
Atlas Sound – Logos
The Drums – Summertime EP
Clare & The Reasons – Arrow
The Candle Thieves – Sunshine ep
Sufjan Stevens – The BQE
Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard – One Fast Move or I’m Gone – Music from Kerouac’s Big Sur
Spiral Stairs – Real Feel
I might be wrong – circle the yes
A Perfect Friend – Timber and modern ways

more shorties next week!
(…and please tell me what you think of this feature, – should it have been done another way?)