Electric Turn To Me are not a band for everyday listening. They are difficult and inclined to witchy hysteria and fracture the spectrum into 356 shades of black and grey. Pitchfork hate them. I’m happy, if happy is the correct word, to have found them.

Just wanted to quickly point out a new — and soon-to-be-recurring — feature on eMusic: the Jukebox Jury. This month, eMusic contributor Douglas Wolk sat down with Glass Candy, played them a few songs he thought they might like, and recorded their comments. I always enjoy seeing (or reading) different peoples’ reactions to songs, [...]

One of the biggest dance pop groups of the ’90s hit eMusic today. I’m as surprised as you are.

The Adele hype has been brewing since June of last year. The Adele album ‘19’ came out on Monday. Adele is now important because we’ve been told she’s important and yet she’s only just begun. Is she worth all of this attention? And can any brand new artist possibly live up to such grand expectations? [...]

By way of introducing our second book club pick, The Devil in the White City, I thought I’d begin with a quick lesson in Book Proposal Writing 101. Most good proposals contain a comparative title list in which you identify other (successful) books that are similar to yours in subject matter or tone. For the [...]

It’s been a while since I’ve done a new arrivals post, but there were a couple titles today worth pointing out.

This piece definitely will not make you like Dean Wareham, but I guess he gets some credit for being brutally honest. It’s an excerpt from his new memoir Black Postcards dealing with how and why he left his wife and infant son for then-Luna bandmate Britta Phillips. Worth a read.

Thanks yet again goes to the Fader blog for uncovering this treasure: Kutiman, an Israeli R&B producer, and a singer named Karolina busting out this absolutely sick soul jam, “Music Is Ruling My World.” Best of all? It’s on eMusic. Download the album here, or the single with several remixes here. Iz hot!

London club Turnmills announced today that they will shut up shop for good on March 23rd, yet another clubland casualty of the King Cross redevelopment programme.
The closure of Turnmills, the very first UK venue to obtain a 24 hour Music and Dance Licence back in 1985, follows the demise of The Cross, The Key and [...]

The California metal band Neurosis played their first New York show in four years last night, and I have the terrible pictures to prove it.

In today’s additions, do not overlook Coptic Light, whose 2005 self-titled record is a modern math-rock classic, and at a bargain price of three tracks (in 45 minutes) to boot. Coptic Light were — they are no more — members of Storm & Stress (a Don Cab offshoot), Antioch Arrow (such a great goddamn band) [...]

Just cuz it’s an amazing song, cuz the Make Up have been forgotten and ’tis a shame. And the album version of “I Am Pentagon” — even better.

Emmy The Great has been pleasing me in a quiet, understated way for almost a year now. London girl Emmy, real name Emma-Lee Moss, makes wonderfully delicate indie-folk, but never really stumbles over the twee-line. She’s supported Martha Wainwright and Kimya Dawson and if you’re fan of either of them then you’ll probably find Emmy [...]

This has been a long time in the making, but today we’re happy to feature a piece by National Book Award winner Jonathan Franzen on eMusic today. We approached Jonathan with a list of books we thought he might like to write about, but he suggested a different possibility to us: Christina Stead’s semi-obscure [...]

Here at eMu HQ, the editorial and design departments are situated side by side, the dueling stereos often bleeding into each another. DJing primarily indie rock (this week it’s been Blonde Redhead, Battles, the Shins and songs from Juno) all day in the design department is Amishi, one of our designers, a fiercely opinionated young [...]

Last week I was blindsided by the kind of vision-shaking migraine that leads only to lying prone on the sofa, and not, as I’d wanted to, going to see Elle S’Appelle and Ipso Facto at the Buffalo Bar in Islington. Londoners Ipso Facto I can see pretty much any time, but I might have to [...]

Paw Tracks band “Rings” celebrated the release of their new record Black Habit, with a packed show at The Glasslands Gallery on Sunday night. Among those in attendance were Rings member Abby Portner’s brother and coincidental label mate Dave Portner, who played a set with his wife and former Múm front-lady, Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir [...]

Yowza — welcome to the first major New Release Day of 2008. It’s been a long, cold, lonely winter thus far, but all of that changes today with new arrivals from (deep breath) Cat Power, Black Mountain, Times New Viking, Evangelicals, Dengue Fever and many, many more.

Today’s Review of the Day and Daily Download feature a record that, had I heard it in time, would have easily placed in my top 5 of 2007. As it is, I’ve been listening to it at least twice daily, and every time I find something new to love. The record is Born & Raised [...]

Fans queue to see Radiohead
Is the secret gig coming back into fashion? In the last two days Radiohead and Babyshambles have played free shows, both announced at the very last minute.