Young Knives - Love My Name

Paar jaar geleden door mijzelf ;-) uitgeroepen tot een van de meest getalenteerde Britse bandjes. Britse nerdrockers komen met een nieuwe plaat die ambitieus 'Ornaments From The Silver Arcade'. Love my name is toch wel erg lekker weer!

Nerdrockers from the UK. Very talented band. New single from the forthcoming album, 'Ornaments From The Silver Arcade' released 4th April. I like Love My Name a lot.

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The Wombats - Anti-D

Alweer een goede track van The Wombats. Nieuwe video.

Anti-D is the 3d single from new album This Modern Glitch. Again it's a nice one. New vid.

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The Thermals - Not Like Any Other Feeling

Verse video van The Thermals. Gewoon weer een heerlijk gitaarliedje.

It's plain simple: The Thermals rock, like always. New video!

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She Wants Revenge - Must Be The One

Ze kwamen een jaar of vijf geleden goed binnen met Tear you apart. Dit is nieuw werk: Must Be The One,van het nieuwe album "Valley Heart". Meer gitaren, minder dance.

Tear you apart. Yeah I still love that song. This is She Wants Revenge's new song Must Be The One, From their new 2011 Album "Valley Heart". Less dance, more guitars.

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Does It Offend You, Yeah? - The monkeys are coming

British electrorockers are here again. The first single to be taken from our second album, Don't Say We Didn't Warn You.

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The Raveonettes - Recharge & Revolt

Raven in the Grave is the new album, Recharge & Revolt the new vid.

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White Noise Sound - Sunset

Garage rock, shoegaze, noem het wat je wilt. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club heeft er een paar broertjes uit Wales bij, denk ik.

Six piece Welsh band. "White Noise Sound show not only how far the [shoegaze] genre has come but how far it could reach... [they] should be heralded for epitomising feverous endeavour." Artrocker

"... fried-sounding, roboto-riffing psychedelic garage scorch... blissful tone and ecstatic drone [are] on full display here, likewise WNS's skill for the multi-cylinder guitar roar and motorik chug." Buzz Magazine

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And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Summer Of All Dead Souls

Alweer het zevende album van deze nog steeds onderschatte band. Tao of the Dead heet ie. Lekker rammen met Summer Of All Dead Souls.

Yes, great band, slightly underrated still. Here's the new single Summer Of All Dead Souls. New album is called Tao of the Dead

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Free download: The Rural Alberta Advantage - North Star

"North Star" finds Edenloff singing about driving in a friend's car, with the north star guiding them home. He croons over sparse electric piano and a skittish drumbeat, before the song finally swells into a organ-led crescendo that comes on like the first hints of a sunrise after an all-night adventure.

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The Rural Alberta Advantage - North Star by The Wounded Jukebox

Frazey Ford - Firecracker

Sorry. Ik ben aan het verhuizen, bloggen ligt even onder vuur. Life is al about priorities. Maar toch.. tussen doos 81 en 82 even over Frazey Ford met Firecracker. Wat een track! Ook mevrouw Oorbijter heeft het te pakken. Frazey rules. Ze komt uit Canada. Haar dubuutalbum Obadiah is alweer een paar maanden uit.

I'm moving house. No time to blog. Thanks to Maarten Earbiter keeps biting ears. So, no time... Except for Frazey Ford. Even miss Earbiter here loves this great track from her album Obadiah. Also quiet moving, but in a other way..

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The Spires - Fireworks

Fusion of dance & electro. Three-piece band form Sheffield combining synths, guitars, drums & a good voice.

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Toploader - Never Stop Wondering

Toploader is terug. Verrassend. We kennen ze nog van iets met maanlicht en al snel daarna stopten ze ermee. Nieuwe sound is meer richting Keane/Coldplay.

Toploader 2.0. They reformed and are off for a fresh new start. 'New' sound is a bit like Keane/Coldplay. Good luck to you guys.

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EARBITER TOP 10 FEBRUARY

The top 10 chart of the most popular Earbiter videos in February.

1 (9) The naked and famous - Girls like you

2 (-) Oh land - Sun of a gun / Heavy eyes

3 (6) I Blame Coco - Quicker

4 (10) Morning Parade - Under The Stars

5 (2) The Duke Spirit - Everybody's Under Your Spell

6 (-) Foo Fighters - White Limo

7 (-) PJ Harvey - Written On The Forehead

8 (-) Funeral Party - Finale

9 (8) Buckethead - A real diamond in the rough

10 (-) Light Asylum - Dark allies

Mumford and Sons - Winter winds

I'm too busy to write. Please write your review of this song and video.

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Mumford and Sons "Winter Winds" Director's cut from Ian Bonhôte on Vimeo.

Guillemots - The basket

Avant-gardisten Guillemots komen in april met hun derde album 'Walk the River'. Band die het experiment niet schuwt en dus in de nieuwe single The Basket lekker veel stekkers gebruikt. Na een keer luisteren al goed!

Guillemots are set to release their eagerly awaited third album, 'Walk the River' in April. First single is The Basket which by the way is great.

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The Hoosiers - Bumpy Ride

Nieuwe video van pretband The Hoosiers. Kunnen, net als The Wombats, een lekker commercieel indiedeuntje maken.

The new video of The Hoosiers. Funny.

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Light Asylum - Dark allies

Intrigerende, spannende song. Post-punk & dance met de soul-stem van Shannon Funchess. Deze gaat op repeat!

Exciting and intense song. Mix of post-punk & dance and the soul voice of Shannon Funchess. Wow! On repeat!

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Dark Allies - Light Asylum from Grant Worth on Vimeo.

Alex Winston - Locomotive

Even denk je aan de magische hoge stem van Kate Bush.. maar dat laat je snel achter je als de beat erin komt. Mocht je verliefd worden op haar stem. Ze woont in Detroit. Album: Sister wife

It's Kate Bush, it's fuzzy. it's fresh. In case you fall in love with her and her voice. She lives in Detroit. Album: Sister wife.

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BONUS:

Hollowblue and Sukie Smith - Wild Dogs Run

Mooi melancholiek nummer van Italiaanse band Hollowblue met medewerking van de Britse actrice Sukie Smith. 3D muziekvideo won een prijs in LA.

Italian band Hollowblue worked together with British Sukie Smith. 3D music video is the official winner of the Los Angeles 3DFF 2010.

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Baron Bane - My slow world / Orchids /

Baron Bane is een soort arty light versie van Hooverphonic and Lykke Li. Dromerige synth pop dat lekker wegluistert op nachtelijke tijdstippen. Hun nieuwe album heet LPTO.

Swedish band Baron Bane have been compared to bands and artists like Mew, Nine Inch Nails, Lykke Li and Ladytron. Their new single shows partly a new direction. My Slow World is the third single from forthcoming album LPTO.

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Vivian Girls - I Heard You Say

Deze drie dames uit Brooklyn, New York zijn al weer aan hun derde album toe. Leuk dat licht tegen het valse aan gezongen sixties-stijltje.

Three girls from New York and their new vid. I like the slightly false vocals and the sixties style.

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Radiohead - Lotus flower

Need I say more?

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Minitel rose - Heart of stone / Another brick in the wall (Pink Floyd)

Gejaagde synths, yeah! Frans electro trio is met opmars bezig. Kwam in 2010 met het album Atlantique. Een must voor de liefhebber van stekkers. Synths zoals de Moog Voyager of DX7 geven je dat lekkere gevoel dat alles terugkomt.

"Atlantique" is a part of us. To be honest we started to work on this album in Paris, in a traditional studio with a professional engineer, but it wasn't us. I mean we didn't recognize ourself in the way to do music, it was the way for us to figure out that the place we are at when we compose have a real influence on our music. So we decided to rent a house with our own keyboards and stuffs, in a place we perfectly know and love. The place where we met each other 10 years ago: the Atlantic Ocean. The ocean was always there in our life and it's a kind of family member. And we like the idea to be on the other side of the US, which is a dream for us."

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Minitel Rose - Heart Of Stone from HK Corp on Vimeo.

Bonuscover by Minitel Rose: Another Brick in the Wall (Floyd)





The Get Up Kids - Automatic

Deze band uit Kansas City is een tijdje uit elkaar geweest, maar timmert nu weer keihard aan de weg. Action & Action was een briljant liedje van ze, ergens in het begin van de 'zeros'. Automatic is de nieuwe single & video. Goed!

Alt/punk rock band from Kansas City disappeared for a while. Reunited and back on track now with a nice new song.

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Those Dancing Days - I'll Be Yours

Al eens aandacht besteed aan deze all girl band uit Zweden in de traditie van de GoGos en Bangles. Hun nieuwe plaat heet Daydreams & Nightmares.

All girl band Those Dancing Days from Sweden reminds me of the GoGos. This new song is taken from the second album Daydreams & Nightmares.

Wye Oak - Civilian

Laat ze vooral geen modeshow lopen. Nurdy stel zingt over relaties. Kruipt na een aantal draaibeurten onder je huid.

"Earnest folk-influenced indie rock with touches of noise and dream pop"

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The Ivys - Smaller The Print

Alweer een Australische band op Oorbijter. The Ivys. Ze zijn met z'n vieren, verder weinig bekend. Opzwepend nummer.

The Ivys are a four piece band from Australia. More information would be nice. Nice song, Smaller The Print.

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The Black Rabbits - Hypno switch

Lekker rechtdoor gitaargeluid. I like. Hun debuutalbum is uit. Uit Orlando dit indie rockbandje.

The Miami New Times writes, "There's a feel-good, timeless bounce to the songs that should appeal to Boomer parents as much as twentysomethings in Converse."

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Betty Airs - Reverse Now

Fifties/sixties retro met grunge-invloeden, of zoals ze zelf zeggen Neil Sedaka on PCP. Betty Airs uit Australië. Leuk.

Retro songs, but these guys are also influenced by grunge. Fun. 'Neil Sedaka on PCP.' Band from Australia.

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IVienna - Exertion (free download)

Nieuwe band uit Londen komt met een mooie track tevoorschijnschitteren. Opgenomen in de Abbey Road studio. Melodieus, coldplaydiaans, bijzonder. Maakt nieuwsgierig naar meer.

New UK act called IVienna. They trade in haunting verses and huge, anthemic choruses, all topped off with a frontman with a great voice. They've just recorded some tracks at the legendary Abbey Road studio in london, one of which is now up that you can check out.

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IVienna - Exertion by IVienna

Foster the people - Houdini / Pumped up kicks

Doet je even denken aan MGMT. Maar dat is een compliment. Hun EP Startime zwerft over het net. Uit LA en klaar voor meer. Gaan we nog veel van horen in 2011. Pumped up kicks werd een hit in Australië.

The peppy, poppy, undeniably crush-worthy band from the west coast that brought you "Pumped Up Kicks" have come back today.

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Foo Fighters - White Limo

Motörhead-frontman Lemmy is de hoofdrolspeler in de nieuwe video van Foo Fighters. Dave Grohl en Lemmy kennen elkaar natuurlijk van het 'project' Probot. White Limo is een lekker smerig vuig hard liedje zoals we dat van de Foos kennen....

Motörhead Lemmy in the new vid of Foo Fighters. Mister Kilmister and Dave Grohl collaborated earlier: the Probot project (2004).
White Limo is back to the Foo roots with a screaming Dave.

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Gang of Four - You'll Never Pay For The Farm

Post-punk goden Gang of Four zijn terug na 16 jaar met het album Content
. De single daarvan, You'll Never Pay For The Farm, heeft eindelijk een bijbehorende video. Die ouwe mannen kunnen het nog!

Post-punk pioneers Gang of Four have released their first album in 16 years: Content. The single You'll Never Pay For The Farm finally has a video to it.

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Forgotten gem: Shuggie Otis - Aht Uh Mi Hed / Sparkle city / Purple

Ben al een tijdje verslaafd aan alle opnamen van Shuggie Otis. Shuggie was al Purple way before Prince. Hij speelde al op zijn 12e gigs en op alle 3 de LP's speelde hij bijna alles zelf in. Een collega blogger schreef de bijsluiter van mijn Otis verslaving:

As a teenager, Shuggie was acknowledged as a guitar phenom, mentioned by some in the same breath as Jimi Hendrix and B.B. King. But he wasn't satisfied to be just a guitarist - he mastered bass, keyboards, drums and vibraphone. He also became a gifted writer and arranger. Shuggie started playing professionally at the age of 12, using disguises to appear older (phony beards & moustaches, dark glasses, hats, elevator shoes, etc.) so he could get into nightclubs. When he was 15, he was drafted by Al Kooper to be part of the second "Super Session" album (this was Kooper's project after he founded Blood Sweat & Tears and completed the first album). Shuggie released his first album as a leader in 1970, called Here Comes Shuggie Otis - he was around 17 at the time. In 1971, he released "Freedon Flight," an album that was way ahead of its time - and in 1974, he released "Inspiration Information," his masterpiece. And that was really it - he started to fade as a bandleader/solo artist and and basically disapeared by 1980. He is still alive and well, hip hop artists and others are covering his fanastic tunes (remember Strawberry Letter 23 by Brothers Johnson? That is Shuggie's tune).

Sly Stone, Stevie Wonder, Prince and other trippy/funky/soulful genre-mixers owe a lot to Shuggie Otis. I often think that Prince deliberately copped all of Shuggie's shit. The Rolling Stones tried to hire this guy in the mid-70's, but he said "no, thanks" because he figured he was going to rock the world on his own. Things didn't turn out that way, but his music stands the test of time - still sounding exciting and fresh 35 years after it was recorded. Shuggie used drum machines in the early 1970's; he played almost all of the instruments on his albums, he incorporated jazz, blues, rock and R&B. It still is wickedly great stuff.
I think Shuggie Otis is still living in Northern California. He records on occassion and has played a few concerts. While he missed stardom and celebrity, he also missed the drugged-out evil scene, so he is alive when many other pop stars died before they reached 50 - freethoughts.blogspot.com

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The Twilight Singers - On the corner

Songwriter Greg Dulli zat in een dalletje maar komt terug met Dynamite Steps. Dit is het vijfde album van deze mannen. Band uit Cincinnati komt op 1 april naar Paradiso. Geen grap.

Rising to fame as the magnetic leader of the Afghan Whigs during the 80's & 90's; Greg Dulli followed his muse and began to innovatively fuse indie, soul and electronic sounds in his post-Whigs collective The Twilight Singers, who released their first album, Twilight As Played By The Twilight Singers, in 2000.

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Brother - Darling Buds Of May

90's Britpop in optima forma. Het mag (nog steeds). Brother is alweer zo'n gehypte band, maar wie weet maken ze het waar. Lekker nummer in ieder geval.

Brother is 90's Britpop in both sound and image. Hyped by the British press (NME in particular). Maybe they'll make it. Darling Buds Of May is a good song.

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The Strokes - Under cover of a darkness

Het duurde vijf jaar maar dan heb je ook wat. Het album Angels komt eraan. De single is nog even te downloaden op thestrokes.com.

The Strokes Under Cover Of Darkness is the first single from rock band The Strokes' upcoming studio album "Angles" due out on March 22nd. This marks The Strokes' first new release since 2006's 'First Impressions of Earth'.

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Amanda Palmer ft Zoe Keating and Chester Lydon - Exit music

Prachtige cover van meesterwerk. Enjoy! Amanda Palmer is een leuk gek mens dat we kennen van de Dresden Dolls.

Crazy but great.

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Suarez - Qu'est-ce que j'aime ça

Goede naam voor een band, moet ik zeggen. En het wordt een beetje lente, dus dan mogen de Franse plaatjes weer. Zoals dit aanstekelijke nummer van deze Waalse band. Oui, j'aime ça. Nouvel album de Suarez: L'Indécideur.

C´est formidable! Belgian band Suarez (great name) with new song. Spring time...

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Crystal Fighters - Plage

Het 'zomert' al twee dagen en daar hoort bepaalde muziek bij. Wat dacht je van Crystal Fighters met Plage. Strand.. Mmm nog even geduld.. Het nieuwe album Star of love staat al lekker hoog in mijn toplijst van albums 2011. Baskische dance van een Londense band.

Bio: We are Crystal Fighters. We make fast dance music with Basque instruments, synthesizers, and our voices.

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Eagulls - Council Flat Blues

Not the Eagles, not A Flock of Seagulls but Eagulls. Five piece band from Leeds, UK. "These are the songs of men who still have dirt under their fingernails, each track seemingly coated with a veneer of sweat."
Or: this f*ck*g rocks!

Free download: Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues

Het nieuwe album komt in Mei. Tot die tijd alvast deze download.

The new album comes in May. This is the first free download.

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Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues by subpop

Black Country - Tangiers Motor Parade

James Studholme en Ben Parker vormen Black Country. Rock uit de UK of USA, je begrijpt.. er is niets bekend van deze gasten. James is of was filmproducer. Maybe.

BLACK COUNTRY is an ongoing collaboration between the singer/songwriter James Studholme and the producer/multi instrumentalist Ben Parker.

Black Country, "Tangiers Motor Parade" from Jordan Sharon on Vimeo.

Ewan Dobson - Level 30

Corny of Knap? Ik ben er nog niet uit maar tot die tijd luister nog met veel plezier naar dit gitaartalent.

Ewan Dobson is a Canadian fingerstyle guitarist and Candyrat Records recording artist noted for the creativity and intensity of his playing as well as his use of extended technique.

Smith Westerns - Weekend

Lekker "shoegazen" met Smith Westerns. Jongens uit Chicago zijn allemaal nog geen twintig. Lenteplaatje heet Weekend.

Guys from Chicago. Not even twenty yet. This spring tune is called Weekend.

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Peter Bjorn & John - Second Chance

Gimme Some heet de nieuwe 'langspeelplaat-LP' en Second Chance is daarvan de single. Peter Bjorn & John, liedjes die zo catchy zijn dat je of met je hoofd gaat knikken of met je voet gaat tappen. Of allebei.

"Peter Bjorn & John are back in their uncannily catchy, traditionally arranged pop rock guise." (Stereogum).

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Lowrider - Hold on

Australie. Adelaide. Nog mooier. Lowrider heeft een album uit dat Europa binnensijpelt via het net. Round the world. Met het juiste soul orgeltje en een lekkere funky hook.

Blending a hip hop sensibility with soul and funk influences and plenty of 90’s R&B, Round The World hits you square in the throat with it’s bombastic bass lines, brash brass and wailing organ.

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The Kills - Satellite

Als fan van deze band ben ik blij dat ze weer terug zijn met nieuw werk. Alison "VV" Mosshart had vorig jaar een uitstapje met The Dead Weather. Vierde album Blood Pressures komt eraan.

I'm a fan. Glad they're back after Alison "VV" Mosshart did The Dead Weather. Fourth album Blood Pressures will come out soon.

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Miles Kane - Come Closer

Miles Kane is bekend van The Rascals en The Last Shadow Puppets. Komt nu met een eigen plaat waarvan dit de eerste single & video is. Meezinger.

Rascals & Last Shadow Puppets boss Miles Kane has a solo project. First single is Come Closer, or: wohohohoho ahahahahaha. Easy does it.

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Panic! At The Disco - The Ballad of Mona Lisa

Panic! At The Disco komt met nieuw werk. Zie de lyrics video.

New song of Panic! At The Disco. I'm not a big fan. If you are, enjoy the lyrics video!

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Soundtrack Les Amours Imaginaires: Dalida - Bang bang

Great titel song of a beautiful new movie: Les Amours Imaginaires by Dalida in 1967. Original: Cher (1966).

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EARBITER TOP 10 JANUARY

The top 10 chart of the most popular Earbiter videos in January.


New number 1 is Ariel Pink. Buckethead & Hawthorne Heights are still popular and back in the top 10.

1 (3) Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Round and Round

2 (2) The Duke Spirit - Everybody's Under Your Spell

3 (-) Vaccines - Post break-up sex


4 (1) Cage the Elephant – Shake me down


5 (RE) Hawthorne Heights - Nervous Breakdown


6 (7) I Blame Coco – Quicker

7 (-) Bag Raiders - Sunlight


8 (RE) Buckethead - A real diamond in the rough

9 (-) The Naked and Famous - Girls like you


10 (6) Morning Parade - Under The Stars