I got incredibly amped when word started circulating that legendary New Zealand label Flying Nun was going to start putting its classic recordings back in print. And, lo and behold, the first batch is here today!!! I believe there’s more on the way, but for right now, be sure to check out records from the [...]

BUY: The Raincoats SEE: The Raincoats

Ask the founders of New Amsterdam records what they are about, and they fumble and equivocate charmingly. It’s not normally a good sign when a label’s masterminds have a hard time articulating its mission, but most labels aren’t New Amsterdam: After all, how would you sum up the animating principle behind an output that includes [...]

We at eMusic love a good scare as much as the next guy, unless the next guy happens to be Satan. With Halloween right around the corner, we’ve assembled a list of our favorite unsettling records. Take a look, and let us know which records share the bejeezus out of you in the comments.

Violent Sensation Descends from Violens on Vimeo. BUY: Violens

BUY: Mavis Staples

Graphic designer, album cover innovator, and commercial art icon Sadamitsu “S. Neil” Fujita died Saturday. He is among the three or four most important album cover artists of all time, someone who took ideas to abstraction and visual literacy to the mass market when he worked for Columbia and CBS Records in the 1950s. Fujita’s [...]

Man oh man oh man. So while there might not be a ton of “marquee” releases today, we do have a whole boatload of hidden treasures. I’m kind of freaking out at the number of tabs I have open in my browser right now. I feel like my computer is going to collapse. Here’s what [...]

CMJ is a strange thing, an unwieldy, unmanageable music “festival” held in a city where new trends explode once every 20 minutes. Buying a pass to CMJ, as has been explained more thoroughly elsewhere, is ridiculous because, if you live in New York and wait a week, you’re going to be able to see most [...]

BUY: Glasser Glasser! Lynchian! Lovely! (Resisted the urge to post a clip from the surprise Kanye West CMJ appearance at Pitchfork’s #Offline festival, during which Jayson, Laura and I lost our collective minds).

Surprise! In an unexpected twist, the new record from Kings of Leon, Come Around Sundown, arrives on eMusic today! So if you like anthems and love choruses, ladies & gents, your weekend is made.

RIP Ari Up, a true punk god. BUY: The Slits

New video. Alternate mix. BUY: The National

BUY: Lush

A quick run through today’s releases that matter.

BUY: Miles Davis BUY: John Coltrane

I’m so pleased to share with you a conversation between acclaimed novelists/story-writers Jami Attenberg and Maile Meloy about Meloy’s latest collection, which is available in audiobook format on eMusic. I always wonder how authors feel when they hear their work read aloud, if they find new meaning in their prose when it jumps from page [...]

From last night’s excellent New York performance. The number of people singing along to this song took me aback. BUY: Hurray for the Riff Raff

Rap-A-lot is not only a bedrock hip-hop hearth, with more than 20 years of incredible, innovative music to their name, but they’re also a proudly independent record label with a track record of defiant entrepreneurship. From controversial founder and owner J. Prince to legendary MC Scarface, stoner icon Devin the Dude to UGK members Bun [...]

BUY: The entire Fela Kuti catalog — NOW ON SALE!