Given my total absence from this blog over the past three weeks, I don’t suppose it’ll be any surprise to hear that I didn’t have time to contribute to this month’s MAP either. So for the second month in a row, my England contribution comes ghostwritten by MAP organiser Jason Pop Cop, who’s selected Jose [...]
I’m not in this month’s MAP, though the eagle-eyed among you may want to query that. “Look”, you say, “a little Daily Growl entry for England, just like usual”. But no my friends, no. Because of all the hospital shenanigans at the start of the month, I never got round to submitting a track for [...]
Just before I launch into my best of 2000s, here’s this month’s installment of MAP. I’ve bent the rules a little, because my pick Banjo or Freakout isn’t an English native, but he is based in London, so I’ve claimed him as one of our own. Thankfully I’m allowed this, because he is awesome. Click [...]
I know this MAP thing is meant to be all about the new music, but this month, my contribution is an old favourite. I thought I’d introduce the international blogging peeps to Jeremy Warmsley, ace London singer-songwriter and all-round top bloke. The track I’ve posted is from last year’s How We Became album, but the [...]
Hey, the Musical Alliance Pact is now one year old. It kicked off in October 2009 with 12 countries. A year on, it’s become a behemoth boasting 34 nations, all bigging up their homegrown musical talents. Props to Jason Pop Cop for getting all this started, making it happen every month and keeping us all [...]
So here’s this month’s international digest, a day late, but there’s good reason for that. Unlike previous months when I’ve been casting around for who to include, this month I didn’t have any doubt. Beth Jeans Houghton. Not only because she’s ace and because she did a recent Seven Songs for me, but also because [...]
When the call for submissions came for this month’s Music Alliance Project, I was firmly steeped in Scottish muisc, and had to reluctantly drag myself away to think about what English bands to suggest. Problem was, I couldn’t think of any. Thankfully, this roughly coincided with the arrival of the promo of the new album [...]
I wasn’t really prepared for this month’s Music Alliance Project. I came backfrom holiday several days past the submission deadline, then had a mental scramble to decide what to include for England. Normally it’s a stand-out from my previous month’s blogging, but I was hardly very prolific in June so I was scratching my head [...]
Oh, it’s that time of the month again. Music Alliance Pact time, when the collected recommendations of a motley bunch of international bloggers are unleashed on the world. Last month’s edition caught the attention of American music website Spin, which featured the full May MAP on its pages. So onwards and upwards then. This month [...]
I was a bit slack this month in getting some MAP blurb organised, so I did a hurried, last-minute job on Alessi’s Ark. I’ve still got the album to review, and this song has been posted on here several months ago, but see it as a wee taster for the new Alessi album, due out [...]
