A batch of new titles from today and yesterday after the jump.

We couldn’t be more excited to formally announce today the beta version of a new feature on our site: eMusic Radio. Some of you may have gotten a sneak peek of radio already, but consider this the official unveiling. I’ve been honored over the course of the last six years to work with some of [...]

New desert blues from Tinariwen; an eclectic and wide-ranging folk-rock opus from Megafaun; Saturday morning cartoon-addled jazz fusion madness from Thundercat, produced by Flying Lotus; the latest from prot-riot grrl and rock and roll lifer Suzi Quattro; and more, after the jump!

Now that our YouTube channel is up and running, eMusic is now the place for everything from exclusive interviews to carefully curated playlists that make sense out of the Web’s pixelated trash heap. As part of the latter, we’ll be bringing you a breakdown of our favorite videos every Friday, starting with Washed Out gone [...]

I am fully on board with this. Laura (rightly, I think) predicts this record is going to be huge, but this feels like a wisely counterintuitive lead single to me. Lots of eerie, incantatory ululations and misty-moor synthesizers make this spookier than much of the material on Lungs (it reminds me of a darker “Rabbit [...]

Let’s go, let’s go! I’m the Neil Hamburger of this shit!

New entries in the shoegaze sweepstakes from I Break Horses; the return of hipster dance-rock pranksters CSS; Neutral Milk Hotel reissues; and more, after the jump!

Starting next week, Daytrotter is taking some of their favorite artists on tour — mostly in the rural Midwest and a few East Coast tops (including two in NYC). The folksy-leaning lineup varies with each stop but throughout the tour includes acts like We Are Augustines (at least a couple of us in the editorial [...]

EMA, aka Erika M. Anderson, carries herself with an unmistakable punk-rock-chick swagger; it’s in her demeanor, her onstage pose-striking, and it’s definitely in her music, which curdles sweetly naïve melodies with buckets of ear-scraping, acidic noise. The result, Past Life Martyred Saints, is a coiled ball of rage and wounded pride that will give early [...]

By Patrick Rapa Rise up, geeks of the world. Cast aside your wireless controllers and mint-condition first-edition whatevers; put a bookmark in your guidebooks, dungeon masters and galactic hitchhikers. Behold, a new chosen one, the lord high supreme master nerd Ernest Cline. If pop culture heads don’t already know that name — and they might; [...]

This weeks’ new arrivals brings us new records from War On Drugs, Cool Kids, NewVillager, Mister Heavenly, killer Chicago disco-funk comps, doom metal, and more — follow after the jump!

By David Raposa File Under: Dark pop, mysterious noise, industrial punk, and everything in between Flagship Acts: Zola Jesus, Moon Duo, Gary War, the Men Based In: Brooklyn, New York It only took two releases for the then-fledgling Sacred Bones Records to find their identity. The label’s first record, a 7-inch from Denver-area band the [...]

This remind anyone else of the Legend of Zelda? By Jayson Greene After the listening session for Watch The Throne, Jay-Z stood up and revealed to the assembled crowd that he and Kanye had recorded, and scrapped, an earlier version of their much-hyped, long-rumored collaborative rap album. “We had made this very big, impressive album, [...]

Some great, charming new Sub Pop records today, and a few other things, including a sweeping, gorgeous new M83 single. A light week, to be frank, but I’m open to anything else you all found that caught your eye. Mister Heavenly, Out of Love – A nice hip-shifting, groovy fluidity to this one, a classic [...]

Drink in the foxy, amirite?. Yesterday, we send your questions to Norwegian heartbreaker Sondre Lerche via Twitter, and he answered in his thoroughly charming way, whilst sipping brandy in a smoking jacket, in front of a fireplace. Or so I’d very much like to imagine. If you’re unfamiliar with Sondre’s music, that is an error [...]

It’s been a hot minute since we last heard from Leslie “Stick ‘Em Up, This is A” Feist, but we won’t have to wait too much longer. In two months, she’ll be releasing an album of Watain covers appropriately titled Metals. Those too impatient to get their Satanic headbang on can bide their time with [...]

More on the PIAS front: We’ve compiled a list of must-have records from some of the PIAS-distributed labels in hopes that you’ll support them during this difficult time. (U.K. version is here; U.S. version here.) Tell us what you picked up and leave any further suggestions in the comments.

We were incredibly sorry to hear this morning that Sony/PIAS’s North London distribution warehouse was destroyed in a fire during the third night of riots in the U.K. It’s devastating news, and our hearts are with our many label friends affected by the fire. Please support them during this challenging time (here in the U.S. [...]

Not a ton today, but what’s here is good! Check it out after the jump.

Leave it to Das Racist to call the lead-off single off their long-awaited debut album “Michael Jackson,” complete with the hollered hook “Michael Jackson! A million dollars! You feel me?!” Indeed we do. Seriously. Have a listen below, and snag the song on eMusic here.