BOOM! Today! Brand new eMusic Selects form our old friends Army Navy! The last Army Navy record was a bit of a surprise hit on eMusic, and so when the band found themselves label-less around the time of record number two, adding them to our Selects Roster was a no-brainer. And, man oh man, did [...]

Kitchen Sessions: Killer Mike performs “Burn” from 3 Little Digs on Vimeo. I know there are a lot of people who feel that hip-hop would be a lot more accessible to them it if retained the sociopolitical edge it had in the late 1980s and early ’90s. It’s not something I feel, personally, but I [...]

Shades of OK Computer and Teen Dream, PJ Harvey has recorded a video for every single song on her 2011 landmark Let England Shake. This album already feels like an old friend, and I sometimes think it’s the most singular statement that will be made this year, and spending the morning watching them only reinforced [...]

I was inspired by the baffling news that Big Boi is producing the next Modest Mouse record to revisit their last effort, 2007′s We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank. The Big Boi collaboration is such an oddball decision, but I can squint and see a parallel universe in which it might have made [...]

It’s that time again — time to take a look at what eMusic staffers and members have been listening to lately. As usual, this month’s installment runs the spectrum and, no matter what your musical taste, you’re sure to find something you love. If you’re in the US, you can read it here — international [...]

A wonderful composer. His most famous piece is undoubtedly his Symphony No. 3, the highest-selling piece of contemporary classical ever. It is simple and moving, and if you know it and love it, you should hear more of his work. He was 76. He will be missed. Download: Gorecki’s Symphony No. 3 Symphony No. 2 [...]

Those of you that were around on the site in 2008 are already familiar with the darkly beguiling, quietly disturbing little emotional puzzles that were the four pieces on Victoire’s 2008 EP A Door Into the Dark. The all-female indie-classical ensemble, led by the dynamic young composer Missy Mazzoli, was eMusic Selects’ first foray into [...]

Innova Recordings was founded in 1982 by an organization called the American Composers Forum so that composers, that most embattled and consistently maligned species of contemporary music makers, would be able to record the forward-thinking, fresh and visceral music they were making. This was music that had a firm foothold in no markets — not [...]

I’m not gonna lie, I have been looking forward to this day for almost a year: Relapse Records returns to eMusic! Relapse is one of my favorite labels running, and in the first batch we’ve got the cream of their recent crop. I’m going to run down a few of my musts, and any other [...]

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 – [...]

Happy to report that, despite what had been previously reported, we’ve learned that The National’s High Violet WILL be on eMusic US on its street date of May 11. It had previously been confirmed for other territories.

(Tinariwen; photo by Dennis Stempler) We’re more than halfway done with our Best of the Decade countdown now, and starting to hit the big names. Here’s where the rubber meets the road, where we move past minor personal faves and into the game-changers (which leads me to the following confession: I’m responsible for the R. [...]

So I have to be honest: assembling our Best of the Decade list was incredibly intimidating. Best of each year? No problem. The scope is smaller, we all have a fair idea of which records should be included, and the squabbles about placement are more fun, more relaxed. But Best of the Decade? Man oh [...]

Via beneffervescent At long last — New Arrivals! With the issues with yesterday’s roll resolved, we have a modest batch of records to pore over and talk about today. Let’s skip the preamble and just go for it: The Dodos, Time To Die – I never took much notice when The Dodos’ last album was [...]

Hi everybody. So, I wanted to let everyone know that I’ve stepped down as eMusic’s Editor in Chief. This was not an easy decision. For the past five years I’ve had the privilege to be part of eMusic’s editorial team, and it’s been the best job imaginable — I got paid to listen to albums, [...]

Via beneffervescent As I mentioned last week, sorting through Freshly Ripped is starting to become more and more of a “help, I’m being drowned in gold!” sort of situation. So much music, so little time. Combing back through the last week’s worth of stuff, I found enough, big and small, to do another New Arrivals [...]

Doug basking in the glorious rays of his indie guitar jammery I have seen Built To Spill live somewhere between five and seven thousand times. When I was 17, I listened to Perfect From Now On the way I used to listen to, like, Led Zeppelin IV or Paul’s Boutique. That is, endlessly, with Talmudic [...]

So tomorrow AM, Joe and I are leaving for Chicago for the three-day incredible-live-music binge that is the Pitchfork Festival. It’s my first time there, and I am pretty amped. We put together a nice little primer hub on this year’s festival, which you should check out here, to get a flavor of these year’s [...]

I’m pretty sure this entire post stems from a single wisecrack Maris made last week. We’ve all been nerding out to White Denim for weeks now over here in editorial, and when a Pissed Jeans demo landed on Joe’s desk, the (highly unfortunate) mental connection between the two was just too hard for us to [...]

As we come to the close of another week, we wanted to shine the light on a few records that may have fallen through the cracks — lovely, small albums that deserve a bit of spotlighting. They pretty much range across all genres, and the only thing they really share is that we like them [...]