Ear of the Dragon

Ear of the Dragon (1995) is a CD album released on the Fortune 5 label in collaboration with A Magazine.

It is a compilation of tracks by American and Canadian indie bands which contained Asian-American members.

The album contains a broad range of American indie music styles and notable indie artists from the early to mid 1990s including indie rock (Versus and The Dambuilders), punk (J Church and aMiniature), ska punk (Skankin' Pickle), slowcore (Seam), cuddlecore (cub), and key players in post-rock (David Pajo was a member of Slint and both he and Bundy K. Brown (aka Slowpoke) were members of seminal post-rock band Tortoise).

Some of the bands represented on this compilation (including Seam, aMiniature, Venus Cures All, Cub and Versus) toured together in support of the "Ear of the Dragon" compilation in 1995.

According to Billboard Magazine, the tour began April 28, 1995 in Toronto and ended May 27, 1995 in Chicago.