Kind of a quiet new arrivals Tuesday, which gives us plenty of time to shine a light on some titles that may have otherwise gone unmentioned. A roundup of today’s hidden gems below the jump!

Hey guys! Welcome to the new week in music. Here’s a rundown of some of the most exciting and interesting things that hit the UK site today. Various Artists, Soundway Presents: The World Ends – Afro Rock and Psychedelia in 1970s Nigeria – Incredible. Seriously, just incredible. Soundways have long been one of our favorite [...]

Like most of you, we here at eMusic love the Soundway label. We assembled this guide a while back, and now we’re thrilled to announce our first exclusive from Soundway, The World Ends: Afro-Rock and Psychedelia in 1970s Nigeria. You probably don’t need us to tell you, but this compilation is awesome: really deep, soulful [...]

It’s a bit of a surprise that Thao and Mirah, two compelling West Coast singer/songwriter/activists, are just now joining musical forces. Apparently the two met after Mirah’s recent move to San Francisco from Portland, and after a one-off gig together at Noise Pop festival, they decided to take their show on tour. They played Music [...]

In honor of Lenny Kaye’s epic retrospective on the MC5′s Kick Out the Jams and courtesy of the dearly departed former eMusic employee Patrick Lelli, here is an amazing clip of Rob Tyner, former lead singer of the MC5, performing his solo song “Grande Days” on an autoharp with a pair of Larry “Bud” Melman [...]

Innova Recordings was founded in 1982 by an organization called the American Composers Forum so that composers, that most embattled and consistently maligned species of contemporary music makers, would be able to record the forward-thinking, fresh and visceral music they were making. This was music that had a firm foothold in no markets — not [...]

Things were better in the ’70s. Maybe. Yesterday unleashed several new good records, and today there is yet more. Hope you didn’t use all your downloads because we have some predictably great releases and a couple of surprises. Let’s start there. Dum Dum Girls, I Will Be – Hey now, one of the very best [...]

A whole slew of titles that were originally scheduled to come out tomorrow were bumped back a day, so that means that New Music Tuesday came a day early this week for US folks. I’m gonna go through the US titles, and then I’m going to call out a handful of UK-only stuff that hit [...]

As countless E! network television specials are ready and willing to attest, the perils of child stardom are many and deadly. Who can forget the grim visage of one Danny Bonaduce, recalling his life’s endless pitfalls, or any former Backstreet Boy excitedly talking up a solo record that no one is interested in buying? So [...]

It’s Friday! It’s been an eventful week in the eMusic office and I’m excited to share what’s been bringing some extra light (and noise) to this place in the past couple days, which also happens to be the music that’s been dominating my iPod lately, namely Samantha Crain and Frontier Ruckus.

Photo courtesy of beneffervescent Hey, look, it’s Thursday and about 6 million classic records dropped on the site! Holy shit! Surprises abound in this collection of Warner odds and ends — there are way too many records to do justice here, so let’s not waste time, shall we? Love, Forever Changes – Immortally classic paranoid-hippie [...]

Yup, that’s LL Cool J getting Caught Listening in honor of National Audiobook Month. June is the perfect time for it, with Fathers Day and summer days approaching. Nothing better than lazing in the sun, eyes closed, listening to a great book. Go here to Get Caught Listening with 6 free audiobook segments available for [...]

Hello! This week is a little slim on new releases, but we’ve still got a handful of heavy hitters and some smaller stuff that’s also worth checking out, including Gaslight Anthem, Oasis, Mates of State and more, after the cut.

Pic from Furrukh Khan via The Royal Scourge Lots of new records to talk about today! Let’s start with the headliners: Oasis, Time Flies — Greatest hits from Oasis! So, you know, there are some pretty great songs here. I reviewed this, and here’s but a taste of my trenchant analysis: The biggest hits are, [...]

New York was pretty gross last night — wet, muggy, raining. While my trip to Bowery Ballroom was not fun, Lost in the Trees made for a great pairing with what was going on outside. This North Carolina septet plays visceral symphonic folk that’s at times spooky, emotional, and majestic, and they blew me away. [...]

In “Blueprints,” the second track on Samantha Crain’s sophomore LP You (Understood), the Shawnee, Oklahoma, folk songwriter sings, “Into your eyes, I climbed/ I have no eyes of my own.” In a way, it sums up the premise of the record: Crain wanted to document relationships and incidences with 16 different people in her life. [...]

(Photo by Brittany) Sorry again for the epic wait today, guys. We’ve got two major catalog arrivals today, and a smattering of other albums well worth your time. For starters! Paul McCartney solo albums, and McCartney with Wings: Maybe you’ve heard of this dude. I was just having a conversation with my brothers about the [...]

If can can see a witch in this photo it means you’ve been cursed Some great new stuff today in the UK and the EU. Let’s get to it, shall we? Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffitti, Before Today – The godfather of chillwave/glo-fi returns! Neon Indian, Memory Tapes, Washed Out, Nite Jewel: bow down before your [...]

I’ve written about Corey Dargel before; his last full-length album, 2008′s Other People’s Love Songs was an incredibly sweet and charming project where Dargel wrote songs that one lover had commissioned specifically for the other. His latest record, Someone Take Care of Me, is well, not so sweet. At least not in the sense most [...]

Earlier this week I returned from a quasi-vacation to Barcelona, Spain, site of the annual Primavera Sound music festival. Let me tell you about it, OK? It’s a bizarre, almost impossibly perfect set-up for a grand scale music festival. Consider: It all takes place in El Parc del Forum, an acres-long urban park, fitted with [...]