Archive for December, 2010
Oh, I just don’t know where to begin. So much for a quiet week between Christmas and New Year’s! Today, on eMusic U.S.: The entire Elvis Costello catalog. And more! Follow us after the jump!
le grand finale
And so another year on eMusic comes to a close! Peep the last of our staff lists after the jump, and check out which records we crowned Best of The Year, and which records you crowned Best of the Year.
emusics best of 2010: revealed
Get a look at our #1 Record of 2010, and the final results of our Members Poll, here now! Final staff lists arriving on 17 Dots tomorrow!
best of staff lists, day 3
eMusic’s Year-End Staff Lists roll on today, with more contributions from more eMusic full-timers. Please keep your lists coming in the comments! The number of albums I’ve added to my Save for Later over the last few days has been staggering… Also, more revelations in our Top 80 of 2010!
best of 2010 staff lists, day 2
More lists from the eMusic Staff, as we continue to count down our Favorite Albums of 2010 (Yours, too). Today! Lists from Jayson and Laura, and Maris pairs the Best Books of 2010 with a song that sums up its themes.
emusic q&a: jennifer egan
Jennifer Egan’s A Visit From the Goon Squad is my favorite book of 2010, and given that I’m eMusic’s audiobooks editor I get to make it eMusic’s # 1 pick as well. I feel incredibly lucky, then, to be able to share this wonderful interview that eMusic’s Jami Attenberg conducted with Jennifer Egan. You’ll find [...]
best of 2010: staff lists
In a few hours, we’ll begin rolling out our Top 80 Albums of 2010 on the site The lists are live now! (80 – 61 today, 20 a day through Thursday), along with the winners of our Member Poll. Along with that, here on 17 Dots, we’ll be posting our personal staff lists, 2 – [...]
(TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY SCHIZOID MAN) OK! So! This happened! Wow! Major, major new arrivals today, including my personal #1 Album of 2010, which is Kanye West, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy: Kanye does it again, going bigger and brasher and more ambitious than ever. I cannot recommend this album enough — genre-toppling, all-encompassing, containing anger and [...]
strand of oaks on kickstarter!
(this is a badass trailer) As most of you know, several months ago we released Strand of Oaks’ second record, the incredible Pope Killdragon, through eMusic Selects. The record took off like a shot, garnering a rave Pitchfork review and hitting the upper regions of our charts in seemingly seconds flat. Now, you can take [...]
na: dylan & more
A quick run through today’s wide-ranging new arrivals!
New eMusic Selects! Finally!
It’s been a minute since our last round of Selects (with the amazing Strand of Oaks and Family Band), and I’m insanely excited to announce the latest addition to our roster: Brooklyn-by-way-of-Tel Aviv’s Pink Noise. I first saw this band play in Brooklyn a little more than a year ago and they blew me away. [...]
It is a testament to the awesomeness of eMusic’s Editorial Department that they somehow allowed me to talk them into buying tickets to see Watain and Goatwhore at Santos Party House in New York last night (all except for Laura, who is no less awesome, she just prefers Stornoway). What follows is everyone’s perspective on [...]
crucial clip of the day
Man, I loved this band. BUY: Papas Fritas
It’s not a Tuesday, but a bunch of new titles showed up today that we had to mention. Here you go – let me know what I missed! Agalloch, Marrow of the Spirit: This apparently was on NPRs Best of the Year list, and was streaming for free a week before release. Which I find [...]


