now live: emusic radio!
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 the best writers and curators in the business, and as our catalog has grown, it’s provided incredible opportunity for them to aid in discovery through their great writing. With radio, we can take that to the next logical step – discovery by listening. Our first batch of programs runs the genre gamut, with the aim of helping you discover – to use a phrase I’ve used many times before – your next favorite artist.
Like moody classic soul? Try Hearts of Fire or Lost Soul. Like music from around the world? Tune in to DJ Sportcoat’s Global Grooves. If jazz is your bag, you might want to bend your ear toward either Fresh Jazz or Modern Big Band. And it goes without saying that we’ve got your indie rock station, along with Freshly Ripped radio, which is updated weekly to feature the best from our “Freshly Ripped” section. Got a particular editor you feel your tastes align most with? Tune into a personal station created by me or Andrew or Jayson or Laura or Maris.
Over the next few months, we’ll be going broader and deeper – we’ve invited artists, blogs and labels we love to curate programs of their own (you can listen to the first of these, one station built by the great Blue Note Records and another by Kill Rock Stars, today) and, eventually, we’ll be extending the same opportunity to you, the eMusic member. We hope you enjoy diving in and discovering using eMusic Radio. And please: use the comment section here to suggest some programs you’d love to hear – or artists or labels you’d like to see involved — and we’ll do our best to make it happen.
US only?
I’m getting no content for any of those pages (is it supposed to be live in the UK?).
Hey: Sorry guys – it is US only.
I am very excited by this and more so over by the coming cloud service. Joe can you ask the nerds if, as this matures, there will be an API for mobile developers (Also Joe’s Stations are fucking awesome, and I can listen to the Breaks station at work WOO HOO). Can we get a “safe for work” “not safe for work” marker on stations?
Typical shoddy service from E Music, pays our monies get no choice, come on E Music when are you going to start giving us in the UK some of the benefits
LowLife, before being a complete dick maybe you should study up on international licensing and streaming music rights. Just like you UK people had spotify for many years before the U.S.A. did the same happens with eMusic and streaming music (as well as the content of the site). Thus really you show your self as a dirty wanker when you lash out at the wrong entity. I’m sure emusic Europe and UK staff are working hard to shore up the rights needed.
Joe, I have a stuck post from yesterday (your Captcha is really really hard :’(
tDear Mr Nergal,
Well maybe I am no expert on International rights but nobody deserves to be insulted and called what you called me.
Its good to see the mods on the site let insults like this stay on the site as well.
The point I was making that we dont get all the benefits that others get, no daily downloads, no twitter promos and on lots of occassions looking for albums told that they are not avialable in the UK. We also have had to suffer problems with the site so the player could be introduced.
My English good manners will not reply to your disgusting post except to say liberal use of mouthwash should be used before you post
How about an Android app? That would be rad.
I wrote to reply on Saturday i reply to the disgusting remarks made to me in very polite terms considering what abuse was thrown at my person. 17 dots decided to delete this while keeping the abusive post on.
I can only come to the following conclusions
1/ E music condones this sort of abuse at its customers
2/ It cannot abide constructive criticism of its service
3. It does not want my monies which pays for its upkeep
The point I was making that yes we may have had Spotify is nothing to do with the fact that we have had to put up a site that has not worked properly for a player to be installed that we have no access to. Yes I do not know about International streaming although I find it curious that I can listen to music form US site including NPR, WFMU and Soma radio.
I am disgusted that I was spoken to in these terms and the censured my a site that was representative of the company which I am a customer of, it would be interesting to see what the CEO and board members think of the level of moderation on the site
Hey Guys:
First – Lowlife, your comments were stuck in our sometimes fickle Captcha system – I think most of the regulars here can say that does happen from time to time. I normally go in and wave them through, but we’ve been on vacation the last several days, and I haven’t checked in as often as I usually do. I just waved your comments through this morning.
As far as what you were called: I actually agree with you. Guys: Let’s all please remember to keep the discourse on this blog civil, respectful, and adult. There is absolutely no need for trolling or name-calling ever.
As far as deleting comments: We do not delete comments, whether negative, positive or criticizing the company. There have been many such comments here over the years, and we have not taken any of them down. Comments do get caught in “captcha” from time to time, as I mentioned, and need to be manually flagged through.
I agree this exchange has been completely un-civil. If any of the participating parties would like to retract anything and have their comments removed, I am happy to do that, but I won’t do it without explicit instructions to do so from the original poster.
Oops, I do apologize for my harsh language, it was uncalled for.
nuff said, my deepest regrets.
Apologies are excepted, thanks for being big enough to do this