Today we welcome Brighton’s finest Skint Records fully back onto the site. So if you’re a lover of Fatboy Slim, The Lo Fidelity Allstars, Dave Clarke, Midfield General and others and are in the UK, get clicking.

Hang around in the more underground sections of London’s music/art/ whatever scene for long enough and two things are almost guaranteed. Firstly, you’ll know at least one person who played a zombie in ‘Shaun Of The Dead.’ Secondly you’ll know at least one person who is in/ was in/ slept with/ fell out with They [...]

I want to start experimenting with hosting some small polls here on 17 Dots, so here’s one to get us started: which of the big June releases are you most excited about? Answer below!

Since we’re an audiobook company and all, we should talk more about books here on 17 Dots. So yes, then. Books!
I read just as much as I listen, and not just the Snopes pages I have to send Joe every time he IMs me about “this crazy thing that happened to [his] cousin” either. I [...]

After the madness of Detroit that I outlined here, I will be heading back to New York. To go to Montreal. I’m not going to question the airlines on this one, as long as they get me to Mutek on time.

Hello Europe! Good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome to Belgrade and the 53rd Eurovision Song Contest!
Bonjour l’europe! Bonsoir Mesdames et Messieurs et bienvenue à Belgrade et la 53e Concours Eurovision de la chanson!
Okay, I’l stop this now, cheesy presenter-ese is too much for me even in a text format, but Eurovision is on us again. [...]

Tomorrow night, I’ll be heading off to Detroit for my very first visit to the Detroit Electronic Music Festival and, to be honest, I couldn’t be more excited. I’ve always thought about going, but always had a reason to skip it. This year, I made my business not to have a reason to miss Hart [...]

There are a terrifying number of new releases over the last 48 hours. So without further ado:

So there’s this band from Portland called Au who are starting to get some buzz. All of us here absolutely love them, and we will be getting their album, Verbs, a full three weeks before its street date. Above is a video from the album their first album, called “Boute” (thanks Diana!).
Funny thing about how [...]

The things you learn on the internet! Yesterday, conservative columnist Robert Knight penned an editorial explaining that the reason for the 75,000 people at the Barack Obama campaign rally in Portland on Sunday was not the presumed Democratic presidential nominee. Oh no! Not at all! Instead it was a free show by noted Biggest Band [...]

Not sure when exactly this site popped up, but label guy/17 dotter Patrick just fowarded it on to me yesterday. It’s a simple, fun concept that should bring a twinkle to the eye of any music nerd (or music nerd dater). I’ll let ‘em explain themselves:
They were into you, so they made you a [...]

There’s a cover version I’ve been loving recently, but from none of the usual sources. BBC4 have been running a series of documentaries, cookery programmes, dramas etc all of which attempt to “get inside the Medieval mind.” Most of them have been excellent, but it’s the idents created to advertise it that I’ve been loving. [...]

Those appendages are really creepy.
Three excellent new releases hit the site today in completely different genres.

Hey everyone! I just got back from a weekend trip home to Virginia (my mom graduated college — yay mom!), where I came bearing a huge haul of vinyl for my 17-year-old brother Stephen (a 17 Dots reader — hi bro!)(and just to embarrass him a lil bit, that’s him in the pic above) that, [...]

“I don’t give a damn ’bout my bad reputation!”

It feels very retro to describe something as “the latest dance craze sweeping France”  - I thought that dance crazes stopped sweeping nations at some point in the late eighties. But I was wrong – and here are some French tektonik dancers to prove it. Retro the phrasing may be, but tektoniks has spread in [...]

Typically the summer is a slow stretch for new releases on eMusic, as the indies quiet down with college radio on hiatus and the blockbuster-type stuff takes over. Summer = catching up on your save for later lists. However, this summer is looking a whole lot different. I want to give you a quick sketch [...]

Three new ones for the club, three new ones for the home.

Yet another landmark day in the history of eMusic.