eMusic Archives: October 2008
Gang Gang Dance, Saint Dymphna…
The impressively ambitious third album from Brooklyn trio Gang Gang Dance… more »
Go-Go Music!
Once upon a time Washington D.C.'s go-go and New York hip-hop were bo… more »
Go-Go Music!
Once upon a time Washington D.C.'s go-go and New York hip-hop were bo… more »
PlusMinus, Xs On Your Eyes…
This is the +/- aesthetic: a twinkle of xylophone, the hum of organ, a hu… more »
New Jack Hustle, Sound Check…
After a half-decade of squandering time, the once-vibrant Los Angeles hip… more »
Hospital Ships, Oh, Ramona…
Hospital Ships is one man — Jordan Geiger, member of both Shearwate… more »
Martin Lindstrom, Buyology…
The science of why we buy Why, oh why, do we buy what we buy? Does a pret… more »
Odean Pope, Plant Life…
The Philly native and longtime Max Roach cohort appears here without his … more »
Of Montreal’s Kevin Barn…
Ten years ago, Kevin Barnes would have seemed like the least-likely-to-su… more »
Madlib, Beat Konducta Vol. 6: …
If only we could all be as productive as Madlib. After previous forays in… more »
Diagonal, Diagonal
Prog-rock is supposed to be cold — or at least it seems to come out… more »
Madlib, Beat Konducta Vol. 5: …
If only we could all be as productive as Madlib. After previous forays in… more »
Orchestre Révolutionnai…
You can tell immediately — immediately — what kind of Brahms … more »
The Whispertown 2000, Swim…
Swim, the first album on golden-voiced Gillian Welch's label Acony, h… more »
Brett Dennen, Hope For The Hop…
On his third album (including a hard-to-find, self-pressed debut), Brett … more »
Steve Wiest, Out of the New…
Grammy-nominated trombonist Steve Wiest has made an interesting move on O… more »
Of Montreal, Skeletal Lamping…
Any good concept album has a compelling character at its core, and Skelet… more »
Aterciopelados, Río…
The soothing gurgle of a running river punctuates the seventh album by Co… more »
The Deep Vibration, Veracruz (…
Neil Young-style rock and roll rules on this auspicious debut EP from Nas… more »
The 13 Greatest Ghost Songs of…
It's Halloween, which is the best holiday out of all the holidays that do… more »
Twin Cities
It's been a decade since I last lived in Minneapolis, where I spent m… more »
The Popinjays, Flying Down To …
Wendy Robinson and Polly Hancock face down their utterly normal, hardly i… more »
Strand of Oaks, Leave Ruin…
If a bearded dude makes an album in the woods and no one's around to … more »