Hi everybody.
So, I wanted to let everyone know that I’ve stepped down as eMusic’s Editor in Chief. This was not an easy decision. For the past five years I’ve had the privilege to be part of eMusic’s editorial team, and it’s been the best job imaginable — I got paid to listen to albums, sign [...]

Via beneffervescent
As I mentioned last week, sorting through Freshly Ripped is starting to become more and more of a “help, I’m being drowned in gold!” sort of situation. So much music, so little time. Combing back through the last week’s worth of stuff, I found enough, big and small, to do another New Arrivals [...]

While there’s not a whole lot that qualifies as “new” today, we do have a pretty solid variety of catalog titles perfect for summer listening!
Camera Obscura, My Maudlin Career: New Camera Obscura finally arrives on eMusic. Some of you may have heard this already but for those who haven’t — it’s fantastic. I’ve been iffy [...]

(we have ways of making you talk)
Every now and then a record shows up on the site with little warning, and gets lost in the onslaught of bigger titles with more cache or cred. Do not let Reichmann’s Wunderbar be that record — especially if you have a soft spot for the B-Side of David [...]

So here we are smack in the middle of summer, a time notorious for a dearth of new music. Fear not, though: there are five records coming down the pike certain to quench the new music thirst, all of them worth getting worked up over. They are as follows!
August 4, Jay Reatard, Watch Me Fall
Coming [...]

(flamgirlant and p-clark weigh in)
So this year, Jayson & I snapped some quick videos of the Pitchfork Festival — we talked to a few bands and shot some performance footage (we also interviewed Flamgirlant and Ptolemyclark, which you can watch above). We thought we’d close out our Pitchfork Fest coverage by sharing some of [...]

Wow, there are a ton of records today. Just sorting through Freshly Ripped, which is usually a 30-45 minute task, took TWO HOURS today. Which is awesome. Let’s take a look at the tip of the iceberg, shall we?
First up, of course, is the new Magnolia Electric Co. record, which comes after a three-year silence [...]

Sadly, Pharaohe Monch did not come onstage looking like this
…or all the stuff that Joe didn’t mention, or that he already covered and I am chiming in with my two cents’ worth regardless.
Like I said, this was my first Pfork festival, and I (rather predictably) had a blast. I agree with Joe, however, that there [...]

(what $5000 worth of confetti looks like)
If I was forced to sum up this year’s Pitchfork Festival in a simple, two-word phrase, that phrase would be: modest pleasures. None of the bands pulled off mind-blowing sets, no one upped the creative ante or brought out special guests or strange inventions. Instead, all the performances hit [...]

no picture, because my hotel’s wireless is garbage
“It’s so 90s indie rock,” remarked Alex a few songs into Cymbals Eat Guitars’ rousing, rollicking set. He was right, and it wasn’t a dis: Cymebals Eat Guitars offered lean, energetic rock songs, topped with their singer’s hoarse, searching yelp. They were first up on Saturday’s Pitchfork lineup, [...]

Doug basking in the glorious rays of his indie guitar jammery
I have seen Built To Spill live somewhere between five and seven thousand times. When I was 17, I listened to Perfect From Now On the way I used to listen to, like, Led Zeppelin IV or Paul’s Boutique. That is, endlessly, with Talmudic [...]

photo by robert loerzel. check out his whole, awesome pitchfork photo gallery here.
There was a point during Night 1 of the Pitchfork Festival where I realized that I had just watched Yo La Tengo, was currently watching Jesus Lizard, and was about to go watch Built to Spill. This made me wonder if my plane [...]

So tomorrow AM, Joe and I are leaving for Chicago for the three-day incredible-live-music binge that is the Pitchfork Festival. It’s my first time there, and I am pretty amped. We put together a nice little primer hub on this year’s festival, which you should check out here, to get a flavor of these year’s [...]

Well, it’s definitely summer. The new release schedule has slowed a bit, and even a glance out across the horizon doesn’t reveal much until September. I spent the bulk of yesterday afternoon spot-listening to promos in the hopes of finding a diamond in the rough — a quest I will continue today. In [...]

I don’t know how long it’s been since I have posted something, but as I have noticed a distinct lack of electronic music chatter here lately I figured it was high time.  Here are a few records that have been killing me lately.
Telemetrik: My Lightyear – This very well may have become my all [...]

“I’m goin’ where there’s no depression,” sang Jay Farrar on the title track to Uncle Tupelo’s debut album, No Depression. It was a Carter Family cover — that line miles-deep in its meanings — and though Jay, bassist Jeff Tweedy and drummer Mike Heidorn came from punk-rock (huge SST fans, as are all civilized folk), [...]

I’d like to start off this week’s new arrivals with a heartfelt congratulations to the Rural Alberta Advantage. Our former eMusic Selects band is straight up killing it, and today this has been officially recognized by the oracle of oracles, Pitchfork. Their Pitchfork review gives their Hometowns an 8.0, and Rebecca Raber declares “songs this [...]

I’m pretty sure this entire post stems from a single wisecrack Maris made last week. We’ve all been nerding out to White Denim for weeks now over here in editorial, and when a Pissed Jeans demo landed on Joe’s desk, the (highly unfortunate) mental connection between the two was just too hard for us to [...]

We’re still patiently waiting on new arrivals from the mighty Honest Jon’s label (Surely there must be some kind of deal we can strike, Damon, to prioritize the arrival of the London is the Place For Me series?) but I wanted to take a few moments to call out an exceptional new HJ comp [...]

So… any good new releases today?
Obviously, today is Sony day, which sees a slew of popular — and not-so-popular — titles hit the site. There is a kind of giddy rush that comes from seeing, say, Bitches Brew or the first Stone Roses record turn up, and I’m already figuring my personal Save for [...]