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[6 Aug 2010 | 6 Comments | ]
Busy busy busy – Strangers in Stereo and Hype Machine Radio

I feel it is about time to update all of you faithful TBW readers, who don’t already follow us on Twitter or Facebook, all the exciting new things that have happened here over the last month or so. I have been meaning to write this for a while, but late is better than never.
Firstly, last month we joined the Strangers in Stereo (twitter) music blog collective – which is a group of 25 of the best music from around the globe joining forces both online (the SiS website which highlights …

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[15 Jul 2010 | 34 Comments | ]
Competition: Win Field Day 2010 tickets

For those that haven’t been before – Field Day is my favourite London based festival where they a offer a spectacular lineup of great bands and fit it all into a single day in Victoria Park on 31/07. But it is more than just the music as it comes with one big village atmosphere – and yes it often rains but then you just get hay fights…
We are lucky enough to have a pair of tickets to give away, and you can enter this competition in a couple of ways …

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[29 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]
Save BBC 6 Music – free gig to show support

I’ve tried to keep my feelings of a political slant off TBW recently no matter how much actions the music industry and Google in the continuing #musicblogocide2k10 or the BBC’s plans to close 6 Music annoy me, but with a free gig being offered for everyone to show their support for 6 Music now might be a good time to start…
6 Music is, in my mind at least, exactly what this so called digital revolution with more space for radio stations was supposed to be for. They have taken the …

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[15 Mar 2010 | 3 Comments | ]
Buffetlibre – PEACE w/ Amnesty International (update)

I’ve already waxed lyrical about how much I love the idea behind the PEACE musical atlas compiled by the Buffetlibre duo, but it gets released next month and we’ve got an update with the full and ridiculously impressive list of artists across the globe and a few more MP3s to share.
PEACE is conceived as the first musical atlas online, with more than 150 brand new  songs by artists from more than 50 countries/territories. PEACE will be available digitally worldwide on April 12 …and the best part? All the proceeds go …

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[7 Jan 2010 | No Comment | ]

2009 was a big year for us here at The Blue Walrus, as we took on more staff writers that lets us cover more new music more often whether that be indie, folk, electro, blues or anything else we think is awesome. But with that in mind, we have moved away from the simple musings of one man on music upon which the site was designed. Thus as we move forward into 2010 we have taken the plunge into a new design that will help us highlight some of the …

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[28 Dec 2009 | 2 Comments | ]

So its the end of the year and the end of the decade and that means that you can’t move but for the lists of the best and worst of times. Saam from Faded Glamour had done the honourable thing and managed to convince a bunch of British bloggers (myself included) to share their favourite British albums of the last ten year, and then condensed our ramblings into a couple of lists.
First of all we’ve got the top 10 albums of the decade with all our thoughts compiled together
Then we’ve …