I’ve always been a fan of location listening. Standing on a bridge over the railway at Macclesfield station, the sound of Joy Division just seemed right, it matched the rise and fall of the hills, the left-over Victorian industrial buildings and repeated rows of suburban houses. Driving up the motorway to Birmingham with Black Sabbath [...]

A neat little live show from prime-era Durutti Column hit the site today.

eMusic had always had a bit of the Rekids catalogue, but today we finally got the majority of it. Score.

A relatively quiet day for New Arrivals on eMusic, but the few we do have are noteworthy. Side note: Todd was supposed to write this post, but he’s been camped out since 10am in front of the Best Buy across the street for a Janet Jackson meet & greet (That’s him with the brown [...]

My plans on Saturday night changed quite dramatically when I picked up a showpaper on my way to dinner and was reminded that Black Dice were playing a show later that night at The Market Hotel, which is quickly becoming my favorite venue in the greater metropolitan area.

Two records came in last week from Brooklyn bands that I kinda dismissively skimmed before, but have been really liking the past few days: Lateral by Growing and Flying Faces of the Night by Flying. First thing you need to know is that both band names can either be gerunds or participles. Which is key. [...]

Photo: Chang W. Lee/The New York Times
Whether you agree with it or not, the New York Philharmonic will be undertaking one of the most important cultural exchanges between the United States and North Korea in more than 50 years tomorrow when they take the stage at the East Pyongyang Grand Theatre. Among others, eMusic writer [...]

The blog Dead Flowers has posted a Velvet Underground live recording from 1967 that contains the first-ever performance of “Sister Ray,” as well as a previously unheard (and great) song called “I’m Not a Young Man Anymore.” I dunno the legality of the thing — it all seems to have originated in this eBay listing [...]

Vampire Weekend look so sweet. They are utterly confused, puppyish under their shaggy fringes. They were right in the middle of ‘The Kids Don’t Stand A Chance’ and now sound has just been whipped from underneath them, leaving them blinking in silence under the stage lights whilst a woozy klaxon blares and a recorded message [...]

Well, it’s now two days on from New Release Tuesday, but I know some of you are hanging on to your downloads for one reason and one reason only: you want to wait until Amishi weighs in. Well, ladies and gentlemen, the wait is over:

I discovered Bollywood musicals at a very young age. When her house was empty, my nextdoor neighbour Sharnveer and I would delve into her mum’s wardrobe, pulling out high heels that were too big for us and chunis, large scarves made of chiffon or silk: bright pinks and orange for her, deep greens and turquoise [...]

eMusic UK users may have noticed it already, but I just saw it yesterday: we got in Jean-Michel Jarre’s landmark Oxygene album.

I’ve been listening to a decent amount of classic dance music lately, including the awesome Clone Classic Cuts compilation, which I’m hoping we’ll eventually get on the site. Until that time, though, there’s enough new producers aping old sounds to keep you sated. In fact, one of them dropped just the other day.

So I’m incredibly excited about our newest editorial piece. John Darnielle has been writing for eMusic for several years now, mostly about extreme metal or, er, other topics, but we’ve never really interviewed him or had him expound on any Mountain Goats-related topics. This always nagged me — The Mountain Goats have been one of [...]

Stop the presses! Big new arrival for reggae fans today that I somehow missed until just now: Cedric Im Brooks & the Divine Light, From Mento to Reggae to Third World Music. Cedric is a master, and the bulk of his catalog is the real deal music — maximum dread for fans of that [...]

It’s Super Tuesday on eMusic, with a whole boatload of ridiculously great new releases hitting the site today. Below’s an overview of some of the best.

And legal even! Amplive and Radiohead have mutually agreed to allow people to download this remix album. It sounds a little choppy at times, but that is understandable considering they likely only had the stereo mixes as source material. Plus Del the Funky Homeosapien!
From the Amplive site:
“Rainydayz Remixes is composed exclusively of [...]

The music policy in the eMusic Europe office is usually dictated by whoever gets to the stereo first (and it’s right by my chair, so I have a natural advantage here) but when we can’t agree on anything we listen to FIP.
FIP is a French radio station, based in Paris (the initials stand for [...]

One more new arrival of note today hearkens back to a sound that I talked a little bit about earlier on this week: Biosphere’s Substrata is a classic ambient record that sounds as though it was recorded 20,000 leagues under the sea.

We understandably have been caught up in eMusic Selects, but there were a few other titles from the week that deserve a closer look.