What to put above the cut on a new arrivals post? One of life’s great mysteries. Click on through, though, where MC5 and Os Mutantes await.

Two wildly disparate records that I’m really loving today: the Baptist Generals and Spiderman.

Okay so the new single is their best song so far and the video is WONDERFUL and hopefully we will have it on eMusic soon. I love them so.

I used to be a pretty big Of Montreal. And now that Polyvinyl is reissuing a lot of their back catalogue, it’s brought back a flood of memories. And a lot of brilliant lo-fi pop to my ears once again. A quick user’s guide…

Shall we get this eMusic book club going?

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So my brother Stephen (he of Tazer) came up to NYC this past weekend to hang out with his big bro, with seeing live music pretty high on the list of things to do. Seeing as how he’s 16, options were limited… until we saw that the awesome Pit Er Pat were playing [...]

We received a number of Loren Connors discs on the site in the past few days. Normally, I would’ve just written it off as avant-guitar sketches that I’m not that interested in. But after reading Marc Masters’ feature on him in The Wire this month, I decided to take a listen to some of these [...]

The new New Pornos has arrived. Finally.

Just a quick round-up of some notable electronic stuff.

Who doesn’t love a good radio session? Especially when said radio session features an unreleased song? Some of you may have already discovered this, but the blog Sixeyes is currently hosting a session that eMusic favorites the National recorded for French Radio. The opposite of the legendary “Black Sessions,” where bands perform in front of [...]