In what may become a 17 Dots semi-tradition (?), we thought we’d share one record each that we’re particularly digging on this Friday afternoon. Yancey’s got the sniffles today, but the rest of us gave it a whirl. Starting off with Joe:
Joe:
Emperor
Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
It’s been all metal, all-the-time for me lately. I’d [...]

It’s been pointed out elsewhere, but we got a healthy stash of Big Youth records on the site today. I can be a bit ambivalent about Big Youth — a lot of his stuff is just toasting on top of long dubs, and that doesn’t do a lot for me (sacrilege, I know!), but a [...]

I’m a selfish music listener. I tend to latch onto a song or a style and refuse to let go until I am absolutely and completely sick of it. Sometimes I will wear something out forever — it can never sound good to me again — but more often the excitement dulls and the song [...]

It’s something of a daily sport to embarrass Alex round these parts. It’s really easy to do — when you suddenly find yourself in a successful indie band and you are literally the most spotlight-averse person ever, there is a constant fount of material. Its a fun game: come the end of the day, I [...]

Today we’re unveiling our integration with Facebook Connect, a tool that allows you to — surprise! — connect your eMusic and Facebook accounts. Here’s why you want to do this.
First things first: to use Facebook Connect you must already have a Facebook account. Next, simply visit any album page while you are logged into eMusic, [...]

A wild and woolly day in New Arrivals today. Grizzly Bear back catalog is a biggie (and tidily answers the question, “Will Warp on eMusic just be obscure Autechre side projects?”) and I think we’re all curious what kind of public interest there will be in this new Prodigy record (first in seven years!).
Grizz, [...]

South By Southwest is the biggest music-industry festival every year. It happens every March in Austin, Texas, and days are filled with a neverending blur of live shows — some bands you’ve heard of, some you haven’t. Anyway, this year we’re hosting a showcase that we’re insanely proud of:
Grizzly Bear
Rural Alberta Advantage
Girls
Two eMusic Selects bands [...]

As some of you know, we’ve had a Twitter account running for a few months now. However, now that Alex has taken over the majority of posting duties (from a too-silent me), this should be good. Follow us here: http://twitter.com/17dots.

This was my first time in the actual EVR studio so there may be a few hiccups. I decided to do a melodic punk/power pop/garage rock show, which was super fun but also involved me running around the (tiny) booth like a maniac since punk songs are all two minutes long. It was a sauna [...]

“Eh, I still think the book was better.” Yup, that’s me. I’m that jerk, the one who snottily turns up her nose at the offerings at the local multiplex in favor of books. So as Oscar night approaches, it’s worth considering that some of the source materials for the year’s most celebrated films might [...]

It’s wishful thinking, I realize, but the other day I decided it was time to make my first spring playlist, an annual rite I always seem to go through when my listening habits will start seasonally shifting. Of course I love all the songs on my mix — that’s why they’re on it in the [...]

2009 marks Warp Records’ 20th year in business — a staggering achievement for anyone, and one all the more impressive considering the fickle taste of electronic music fans. But for Warp, they haven’t just adapted to the past two decades’ worth of faddish shifts and genre re-inventions: in many cases, they have led them. Certainly [...]

Each month we roll out a new Best New Music hub collecting notable recent additions to the site, and the new one just went up. Anyone reading 17 Dots is an old pro at all of this now — we learn from you as much as you from us — but if you slept through [...]

There are an alarming number of new releases today, from both big names and new discoveries. It’s to the point where I cannot even fathom how long this post is going to take me to write. I will try my hardest not to bail halfway through.
But, you know, no guarantees.
And awayyyy we go…

Fans of dorky, adorable pop would do well to check out the just-arrived Shelflife label, home of all things twee and lovable. We’ve only got a few titles so far, but I’d endorse the compilation You’re Still Young at Heart, Language of Flowers for shuffling indiepop and Le Coupe for anyone who ever liked the [...]

For years, my standard line on the Go-Betweens was, “The Go-Betweens are where you go when you’ve run out of Smiths records.” This was a convenient shorthand, but it’s also a massive understatement. With no disrespect to Morrissey, where the Smiths seemed to prize a kind of cartoonish affection for high drama, the Go-Betweens trucked [...]

A couple of great new arrivals — beyond Selected & Collected, of course, that are worthy of mention!

We wanted to make sure this compilation was special, and so we decided to go the extra 100 miles and create a really nice set of liner notes that would make a case for each band, give you a chance to get to know them and also just have a cool memento of this record. [...]

And here it is. Here’s your tracklisting:
1. Girls, “Hellhole Ratrace”
2. Obits, “Light Sweet Crude”
3. Glasser, “Apply”
4. My Teenage Stride, “Weirder Nightmare”
5. Eagle Boston, “Satan Highway”
6. Salem, “Redlights”
7. Homeboy Sandman, “Buttermilk”
8. Altair Nouveau, “Cosmos”
9. Rademacher, “If U Got Some Magic”
10. She Keeps Bees, “Bow”
11. Bow Ribbons, “Peace Sundress”
12. Victoire, “A Door into the Dark”
13. Man/Miracle, “Pushing and Shoving”
14. Deastro, “Kurgan Wave Number One”
15. Pains of Being Pure at Heart, “Kurt Cobain’s [...]

Lord knows its legality, but the version of the Yardbirds’ classic classic classic Roger the Engineer that arrived today is indeed legit. The album is post-Clapton, but right in the heights of Jeff Beck’s prowess. Listen to it as a guitar god landmark or just as a really, really great ’60s rock & roll album. [...]