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So they finally let the Audiobooks Editor have a slot on the radio! I kid. The guys had been trying to convince me to do EVR for months–I just had to get my confidence up to an appropriate level. Stage fright is a bitch. Anyway, check out the show here. My general theme was “here [...]

If you love Soundway the way we love Soundway — and I think you do! — you’ll probably want to keep an eye on Soundway’s just-launched YouTube channel. Up now is a trailer for the upcoming sequel to their excellent Panama! compilation, and if you want to get vinyl versions of the Soundway titles you’ve [...]

Can I talk about Glasser for a sec and about how she was on the eMusic Selects compilation and she played this awesome/awkward show at SXSW that I loved and how her new Apply EP is really really great? Can I please? The EP starts with “Apply,” the song that made the compilation, and then [...]

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New records? Let’s talk about ‘em, shall we?
Sunn O))) – Monoliths and Dimensions Opening of “Aghartha” sounds like a recording of a groaning glacier, or like Metal Machine Music chopped and screwed. Which means that it is a new Sunn O))) record. Long, droning sound vistas that shift over minutes [...]

This week’s show is like a many a love letter mix tape from my past. Songs of heartache and longing and love mixed with total dance jams. Listen here and let me know what you think!
 Codeine – Cave In – Frigid Stars LP
Jesus and Mary Chain   – Perfume – Munki
Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood – [...]

Last night, Jayson and I stood alternately awed and terrified in the presence of black metal pioneers Mayhem. I ended the evening with broken glasses, a chipped tooth, and a deep fear of the Dark One in the hollows of my heart. Here’s how it all went down.
The evening began with profound disappointment; the bill [...]

Every two weeks or so, I update eMusic’s Best New Hip-Hop hub, adding the latest batches of indie hip-hop worth caring about. I’m gonna make a “now more than ever” pitch for some of these records, because if there’s a single season when hip-hop sounds the best, it has to be the summer.
Here’s what [...]

Yesterday, Yancey shouted out the new Jarvis record, Further Complications, which I hadn’t really spent much time with. I’m spinning through it now and am loving it — it’s a radical shift for Jarvis. Not just because it’s a “rock” record, but because it’s so arid and pointy and gruff — you can certainly hear [...]

I walked into today’s new arrivals having heard very few of them. So here’s a real-time guide to what’s good from today’s haul.
Passion Pit, Manners: Doesn’t it feel like you might shut your eyes and open them again two seconds later to find that Passion Pit are suddenly superduperstars? I’m hearing them for the first [...]

Photo courtesy of Julie Hau, via the excellent Royal Scourge tumblr
I had more fun putting my show together this time than I’ve had with any of the other ones thus far, so it will be interesting to hear/see if that translates into my favorite show or not. Just felt like all of the crazy genre [...]

Live Wrong and Prosper, the what would you do for $1,000,000 blog that we adore, posed a question today that scares us to the core: Would you have a chip painlessly implanted that would download and play Joy Division songs directly to your brain, so that you heard Ian Curtis singing in your head – [...]

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Because writing randomly about one song is fun. The song I am choosing today is “Some Things Last A Long Time,” by Beach House.
This song is originally by Daniel Johnston, who I have an arm’s-length familiarity with (know of the movie, haven’t seen it, familiar with the mythology, [...]

I haven’t been listening to much music lately. Sure, I still wear headphones to the gym and on my way to work, but I haven’t responded to much for at least a month, maybe longer. Sometimes we need periods like that to recharge, I guess. Or maybe I’m just getting old.
Last night, though, I had [...]

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Hey! It was my week to helm the EVR show and, after several botched/lackluster shows earlier, I finally emerged with a show I feel good about! Forgive the horn-tooting. Anyway. This is what I played, and you can hear it here.
The Veils, “Sit Down by the Fire”
St Vincent, “Actor Out of Work”
Kate Bush, [...]

Stevie Nicks has never had a torrid summer-long affair with a Renaissance Fare lute player
So Maris discovered one of the greatest tumblrs in history (apart from Slaughterhouse 90210, of course) the other day, and she and I spent probably longer than it is wise to admit sending each other quotes and giggling endlessly.  It’s called [...]

(that post title is for you, Todd, wherever you are)
So. Death Row Records.
Where to even start with this? Maybe with a statement of fact: love ‘em or hate ‘em, the records released on Death Row in the early 90s are classics — as foundational genre texts as, I dunno, Let it Bleed or, um, Trout [...]

Lots and lots and lots and lots of records today. I am going the lazy route — there’s just too much ground to cover — and putting all of them together. Let’s talk about them together, shall we? Jump in in the Comments section and leave your thoughts, which will undoubtedly be more insightful than [...]

Last year we fell hard for Icelandic folk singer Ólöf Arnalds — so hard, in fact, that her masterful debut Við og við landed in our top records of the year (although, to be fair, the weird kinship with Iceland we’ve managed to cultivate over the last few years probably didn’t hurt).
So, you know, [...]