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 … →
A year ago or so, we wrote about the new 6-track EP from Denmark’s Champagne Riot, released on Shelflife Records. Back then, the only member of the project was Caspar Bock, and on his debut “Paris and I”, he made wonderful electro-pop sounding somewhere between Abba, New Order and The Lightning Seeds, – quite different than most of the other bands on the label. His list of influences was also refreshingly uncommon for an indie-musician, listing Kylie Minogue, Max Martin … →
4AD have launched the 4AD Sessions, where the artists on the label perform exclusive live sessions. The video recordings will see 4AD artists performing back-catalogue covers and alternative versions of their own material. Here is new 4AD-signing Tune-Yards performing five tracks for the 4AD sessions. Her album is highly recommended!
The Mary Onettes‘ long awaited second album “Islands” will be released on Labrador records on November 4. On “islands” we hear a band with more confidence, and the band dare to take their songs one step further in either directions. I was very excited about their self-titled debut from 2007 too, but “Islands” is a very different record. The sound is wider, the strings are more in front, the pop-songs are more pop, the sad songs are sadder. If you … →
Third week in this series, wow, I’m good! 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: – Sweden’s Heart-Sick Groans … →
“Feet to the sky” is the debut-single from UK indie/folk/pop-band Lulu & The Lampshades, and the wonderful cover-art made by Kate Slater is as colourful as the music on this single is. Some of you may remember that we have presented this band earlier here on Eardrums, and I was quite excited when I got my hands on their first single. The single is out today on the new London label Voga Parochia, a label I have high hopes for. … →
