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There have been a few of you who’ve said you’d like to come out tonight, so here are all the details.
When: TONIGHT. From 6.00pm.
Where: The Northumberland Arms, on the south west corner of Goodge Street and Charlotte Street, London, W1T. It isn’t a very big pub, so we should be easy to find once inside.
Who: [...]

For those of you out there who are anticon, hip-hop or electronic fans, the album that the Alias/Why? track Well Water Black is on (I mentioned it in this post) came in today. I haven’t been anticipating an album like this in quite a while. I was considering buying the limited edition physical [...]

New today on eMusic: Kompakt! Along with some swinging ’60s Spanish pop on Tam-Tam.

Not all of the best bands tour or even put out records. Some of them don’t even exist. As it’s Friday, take some time out from reality and have a look at a selection of fiction’s finest musicians.
The Good
Dr Teeth and the Electric Mayhem - The Muppet Show

The best-non human rock band in the [...]

I’ve reached the age where my friends are starting to have babies. After feeling slightly freaked out at first, I’m now pretty keen on spending time with my friends’ sprogs – after all they’re basically a smaller, version 2.0 of someone I already like and I get to do all the fun, rolling on the [...]

It is our tremendous pleasure to announce that on Thursday, September 11, in NYC, we will present the first-ever showcase of eMusic Selects artists at Le Poisson Rouge, a beautiful new venue in Greenwich Village.
The lineup for the show is:
High Places
Crystal Stilts
Deastro
Breathe Owl Breathe
This is the culmination of the first six months of Selects, and [...]

Last night, a group of us from eMusic headed over to the Damrosch Park Bandshell at Lincoln Center for a show that I hardly believed possible: Extra Golden, Alemayehu Eshete and Mahomoud Ahmed with the Either/Orchestra and saxophonist Getatchew Mekurya backed by The Ex. If someone asked me to design my fantasy bill, it [...]

Tuesday came with a torrent of notable new records; it was all I could do to come up for air after listening to it all. That said, I thought I’d sprinkle on an (extremely random) group of recent arrivals that may otherwise slip through the cracks.

Today’s theme is volume volume volume. Let’s kick things off with two surprises, Uglysuit and the Gaslight Anthem.

Quite a few terrific new releases today (after a long dry spell), but there’s one in particular that I wanted to point out — the fantastic debut full-length from New Yorkers Ra Ra Riot.
I’ve already gushed about this record in my review, so I don’t want to overdo it. If there’s anything further I want [...]

Before you start: apologies to all readers in the US and Canada. It looks like this album will be for users of eMusic Europe only.
Last night I was granted a sneak preview of the new TV on the Radio album Dear Science. It’s always so difficult to judge an album with only one listen, but [...]

Shocking, I know. See a somewhat cringeworthy Borders shopping session with Schwartzman and Wes Anderson and you’ll get gems like (I’m paraphrasing): “The Beach Boys are great,” “Abba, one of the best bands ever,” and “This is my new band Coconut Records. Google me.” Okay, that last one was a direct quote.
You think Schwartzman [...]

Umm… So a big congrats to our pals the Crystal Stilts, who I just came across in the new Entertainment Weekly’s Must List (regular backpage feature of their ten favorite things). Tucked amidst The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 and James Franco is “Crystal Stilts,” who they praise: “a Brooklyn band whose sound is [...]

A while back, an intrepid amateur film editor synced up Arcade Fire’s “My Body is a Cage” with scenes from Once Upon a Time in the West to breathtaking results. This mock-up video for Black Mountain’s magnificent “Angels” is of a similar spirit, matching the Canadian psych ensemble’s hazy masterpiece to college fave Wim Wenders’ [...]

For those unfamiliar, the Polaris is Canada’s answer to shortlist, homegrown-album-of-the-year awards like UK’s Mercury Prize. It’s always an interesting list and (in the award’s admittedly short history) the judges haven’t been afraid to pick an underdog — last year, Patrick Watson’s Close to Paradise beat out indie-NPR frontrunners like Feist and Arcade Fire.
This year’s [...]

Okay - let’s get this sorted. We’ve been talking about having a UK meet-up down here. Now it’s time for decisive action!
The Venue: The eMu Europe office local. The Northumberland Arms, on the corner of Goodge Street and Charlotte Street.
The People: Me! You! Whoever else I can entice out from the eMu Europe [...]

As any regular reader knows, Let’s Wrestle are something of a house band around these parts. We all love them uncontrollably, and think you should, too. A few weeks ago our own reader/pal Prof B (familiar ’round these parts as Mr. B) caught them at the Old Blue Last in London. I begged for a [...]

Keysound Video presents… Dusk + Blackdown: Margins Music from Keysoundrecordings on Vimeo.
Margins Music the first album from dubstep/ grime duo Dusk + Blackdown is currently (and sadly) not available on eMusic, but I thought I’d share this, the video made to accompany the album, with you nonetheless.
On his blog Blackdown has talked about the [...]

(photo by Ethyor)
I decided to take advantage of a slow new release day to give a big push to a record I’ve fallen in love with over the course of the last year or so: Við og við by Ólöf Arnalds.