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It seems like just yesterday Chelsea Wolfe was releasing her stark solo debut, The Grime and the Glow, on the mysterious New York label Pendu. That title was no accident: the album was split between dense, overcast tracks that nestled Wolfe’s voice deep beneath strange waves of sound and tracks that purred and cooed slowly [...]

(alright, alright, we get it, you lived in a cabin) Well, well, well. Look who’s decided to take some time off from high-fiving Kanye West, making smooth AM soft rock sex jams and basically having more goddamn side projects than James Franco: it’s Mr. Boñuel Iver. On June 21, Justin Vernon goes back to the [...]

Unfamiliar Fishes promises to be Sarah Vowell’s most star-studded audiobook yet. Narrators include Edward Norton, Keanu Reeves, Paul Rudd, John Slattery, Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, John Hodgman, Catherine Keener and Maya Rudolph. I would be thrilled to listen to any one of these people read the phone book. But even without this fantastic guest list, [...]

New York’s Sacred Bones label has been owning it for a while now. Though they’re best known as being home to the midnight powerhouse that is Zola Jesus, the label has been cultivating a particular aesthetic for years now. To my mind, they remind me of Factory Records in the late ’70s — they definitely [...]

Fergus & Geronimo – Where the Walls Are Made of Grass from Hardly Art on Vimeo. On January 18th, Hardly Art will release the debut full-length by Fergus & Geronimo, an upstart indie duo whose string of singles over the last year or so have been impish and infectious. The full-length, Unlearn, promises the same: [...]

This April, our good friends at the excellent label Secretly Canadian will be releasing the debut album from Laurel Sprengelmeyer — aka Little Scream. Don’t let the name fool you — the music is small and tender and lovely, Sprengelmeyer’s delicate alto fluttering over plucked guitar and humming bass. That she’s touring with Sharon Van [...]

Tennis – Pigeon from Scott Laidlaw on Vimeo. Next Tuesday, the indomitable Fat Possum records releases Cape Dory by the new band Tennis. Essentially a duo of Patrick Riley & Alaina Moore, Tennis write tiny little pop songs that put an emphasis on Moore’s lithe, childlike voice. Get a taste of what you’re in for [...]

This is a stellar album cover So the last week or two has seen some pretty stellar/high-profile stuff hitting the site in the UK, so I thought I’d take a moment to review some of it. Shall we? Note: A lot of these titles are UK-only, so apologies when/where not available: Teenage Fanclub, Shadows – [...]

This coming Tuesday sees the release of the new Shearwater record, The Golden Archipelago. Here’s eMusic’s Melissa Maerz with an idea of what to expect. Shearwater The Golden Archipelago [Matador] Release Date: 16 February 2010 An explorer, ecologist, and folk hero, Jonathan Meiburg is the Jacques Cousteau of indie-rock. A former graduate student with a [...]

Our fall will sound like summer. Not everyone’s but certainly indie rock’s, and three bands (a trend) — the Drums, Girls and Beach Fossils — will be partially responsible. Some of their music will remind you of surf rock. More of it like the electrified cicadas of early R.E.M. Most of it like California. And [...]

Hey there! It’s the end of the day, and we haven’t uttered a peep — sorry about that. I wanted to draw quick attention to a record that we are particularly excited about, and think you might be too. It’s on Stones Throw, which should almost be enough of a pitch these days. Peanut Butter [...]

So here we are smack in the middle of summer, a time notorious for a dearth of new music. Fear not, though: there are five records coming down the pike certain to quench the new music thirst, all of them worth getting worked up over. They are as follows! August 4, Jay Reatard, Watch Me [...]

When Sony’s catalogue hits the site later this summer, what will you see? That’s the question the 17 Dots team has been working on, and I wanted to give everyone a peek at how we’re approaching this. The first thing to note is that, for better or worse, eMusic’s taste is the same. We’re finicky, [...]

Just a head’s up that tomorrow, Al Green week will commence on the site with the addition of his key ’70s records — just an unbelievably incredible collection of music that everyone (and we mean everyone) should have at their disposal. Songs like “For the Good Times,” seen below on Soul Train: BTW, how cool [...]

A few years ago, I got taken by the debut from a group called New Ruins. As it turned out, quite a few eMusic members did, too (though, from a glance at the User Reviews, it appears that just as many did not). If you’re in the former camp, you might want to check out [...]

Remember Elvis Perkins? He put out an album a few years ago that I liked a whole lot, but didn’t really explode into the stratosphere the way, I dunno, other records did. Well, Elvis has a new record coming out in March called, simply, Elvis Perkins in Dearland. I’m on my first listen right now, [...]

I’ve been hearing from the buzz out there in the ether that Slime and Reason, the new Roots Manuva album, is good. I figured everyone was grading on a curve because, really, what has Manuva done aside a few okay singles? Turns out I’m the idiot in this case — as it often is — [...]

Before you start: apologies to all readers in the US and Canada. It looks like this album will be for users of eMusic Europe only. Last night I was granted a sneak preview of the new TV on the Radio album Dear Science. It’s always so difficult to judge an album with only one listen, [...]

Okay – let’s get this sorted. We’ve been talking about having a UK meet-up down here. Now it’s time for decisive action! The Venue: The eMu Europe office local. The Northumberland Arms, on the corner of Goodge Street and Charlotte Street. The People: Me! You! Whoever else I can entice out from the eMu Europe [...]