Video streaming by Ustream Good morning! How did your Death Cab viewing parties last night go? Did you run out of hummus? Did Ralphie get a little [glug glug] with the Tullamore Dew again? Well, in case you were too busy live-tweeting to pay full attention, here’s the new uber-meta Death Cab for Cutie making-of-the-video [...]

(via the fader) Some Tuesdays we get so many new arrivals, it’s hard to properly spotlight them all. One of today’s finds is the great full-length from pioneering DJ and Beat Junkies founder J Rocc. Fans of J Dilla, take note: Some Cold Rock Stuff appeals to that same inner crate-digger, mashing together funk breaks, [...]

Seventeen years ago this week, I cut my Life of Christ class at Philadelphia College of Bible because I didn’t do the homework, went up to my dorm in an attempt to catch up, flipped on WDRE and heard that the body of Kurt Cobain had been found at his Seattle home. That I remember [...]

In the past, Aussie group Architecture in Helsinki have been known for their super-twee indiepop tunes, usually heavy on synths and glocks, with a smattering of woodwinds and horns. Next week they’ll release Moment Bends, their first set since 2007′s Places Like This. I haven’t heard it in full yet, but if Moment Bends is [...]

(drink it in) BEFORE YOU ASK!: The new Raveonettes record should be up in the U.S. tomorrow. Knock wood. Which, coincidentally, is what our backend is made out of. [rimshot] No, I kid, I kid! Hey, you guys have been great! I’ll be here all week! Have you tried the fish?

The performances from our SXSW Day Party continue today — here’s Grass Widow performing the excellent “Lulu’s Lips”!

Late in the day due to delightful technical difficulties, but….here we go! Timber Timbre, Creep On Creepin On – Mysterious, heavily reverb’ed and vaguely menacing roots rock — think Nick Cave in Twin Peaks. Joe Muggs writes: Where so many retro-Americana acts play up the image of either the grizzled, road-hardened troubadours or the sinister [...]

Interview: Peter, Bjorn & John By Kevin O’Donnell Peter Bjorn and John may be indie rock’s canniest chameleons. Over a half-dozen records, they’ve dipped into every conceivable style, from straight-up bids for chart domination (2007′s worldwide smash “Young Folks”) to austere, beat-savvy hip-hop to groovy instrumental albums like the ones on 2008′s underrated Seaside Rock. [...]

L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N. from charlie fink on Vimeo. We got the new Noah and the Whale record, Last Night On Earth, a couple weeks ago and it totally slipped through the cracks! On their third release they’re moving further and further away from their acoustic-leaning debut and the time they were so closely associated with English folkies [...]

April 12 will see the release of the new record from Panda Bear, Tomboy — his first solo full-length since 2007′s epochal Person Pitch. You won’t have to wait until then to hear it, though ̵ our pals at NPR have a full stream up here for you to enjoy.

It’s Monday and the week is creaking to life. I sat on gum on the subway this morning, so I’m in a fantastic mood. Plus side! We’ve turned the corner into spring, and with brighter weather comes brighter moods — and more live music. Specifically! Our good friend Strand of Oaks, who’s embarked on a [...]

Here’s another video from our South by Southwest Day Party to get your weekend started right. Hot on the heels of their Best New Music second record, we’re proud to present the Pains of Being Pure at Heart rocketing through that album’s cherub rockin’ title track.

Between Jayson’s great assessment of Pearl Jam’s second and third records for Pitchfork the other day, the Pains’ Smashing Pumpkins-channeling second record and the fact that I’m old, it’s been all ’90s all the time around the eMusic editorial department lately. And what better way to cap off our “Remember When?” week then with the [...]

eMusic Q&A: Bang On A Can BY Jayson Greene When David Lang, Michael Gordon and Julia Wolfe first met in the late 1980s, they were engaged in a mutual search for music that didn’t exist yet. The three composers had been inspired by mavericks like Meredith Monk, Steve Reich and Philip Glass, but they were [...]

Cantaloupe Records, the fearlessly innovative and incomparably hip independent record label started by the modern-classical collective Bang On A Can, turns ten this year. Whether they are issuing definitive recordings of masterpieces like Terry Riley’s In C or Brian Eno’s Music For Airports; modern classics written by its intrepid founders — David Lang, Michael Gordon, [...]

Jay Reatard was just getting warmed up when he died — each of his releases was catchier, more assured, and more vibrant than the last. It was an awful shock to see this young guy, who was very clearly bristling energy with life force, be taken away so soon. Goner Records, it turns out, will [...]