About three weeks ago, I took a drive down to DC to spend some time with someone I’d been secretly idolizing for about three years now: Mingering Mike. I’ve already talked about this a bit on here already, so I won’t bore you with repetition. Suffice it to say, Mike was a warm, wonderful [...]

It gives me incredible pleasure to announce one of our eMusic Selects artists for June: the incomparable imaginary soul superstar, Mingering Mike.

We are pleased to announce a big day in the short history of eMusic Selects: High Places have signed with the venerable Thrill Jockey! We couldn’t be happier for them, and we eagerly await their first proper album coming in September. Soon, Thrill Jockey will reissue the 03/07 - 09/07 compilation (still) exclusively available on [...]

A bunch of us 17 Dotters were at this show. So good. If you click through check out the second clip, a new song called “Oceanus” that’s my favorite song of theirs.

Last night the Good Timing Fairy smiled upon us, as on the same day they were debuted as the newest addition to eMusic Selects, Crystal Stilts played a show at the Knitting Factory in NYC. And they were good! The songs were looser live, as you might expect, and I’m totally gutted to say that [...]

This past February while preparing Susu and Hands on Heads for the March installment of eMusic Selects, Alex Naidus, our newest editor, came to us with a band called Crystal Stilts. They needed something like Selects, he explained, because not only were they great, but all of their gear had just been stolen, and they [...]

Sorry for interrupting all of the hip SXSW coverage on this here blog that is sure to come, but I do it today in the name of art-rock. (Always a good reason, in my opinion.) Hands on Heads are the among the second recipients of the vaunted eMusic Selects tag and, to be honest, I [...]

eMusic Selects is back! We know you were waiting with bated breath to see what we’d come up with in March and we’re proud to present both Susu and Hands on Heads for your perusal. Today, I’d like to write a bit about Susu, the math-y Brooklyn juggernaut that Joe recently interviewed for the site. [...]

Hey everyone. So I will be hopping on a plane to Austin for SXSW here shortly, but I wanted to point out that the second installment of eMusic Selects is LIVE. The two picks are Susu, a mathy Brooklyn band, and Hands on Heads, this exuberant London art-punk band. We like the two records quite [...]

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So this is of interest to probably no one, but I’ve been thinking quite a bit about how the community has responded to eMusic Selects so far, and in particular the user comments on the High Places and Breathe Owl Breathe albums. To date, the Breathe Owl Breathe album has ten user [...]

To keep with this week’s theme of “eMusic Selects: The Director’s Cut”: last Thursday I called up Breathe Owl Breathe while they were working in a studio in Northern Michigan to talk with them a bit about how they started making music, how they met and to ask about some of their more memorable touring [...]

About two weeks ago I spent roughly three hours talking with High Places at a cafe in Brooklyn. You can find the best portions of the chat here at eMusic, but the conversation had such a nice flow to it that I thought I would post the entire thing as well. It starts out abruptly [...]

Over the past few years, eMusic has arguably become the most important retailer for independent music in the world. We sell more indie records than just about anyone, and we have a solid track record of breaking new artists: think Yeasayer and Burial, to cite two recent examples. We delight in the prospect of not [...]