This guy first came to my attention a while ago, but the further he’s gotten in this project, the more fascinating it’s become. His name is Logan Walters, and he’s an artist/designer. In addition to his regular, paying work, Walters has taken up a little hobby project on the side: redesigning all of the Wu-Tang [...]

(photo by Talie)
Finally! An avalanche of new releases today, the first real bounty in what looks to be an extremely exciting autumn. I’m gonna do my best to cover all of them in this post, but I’ll undoubtedly miss a few, so please point out my oversights in the comments! I’m going to break [...]

While there’s not a whole lot that qualifies as “new” today, we do have a pretty solid variety of catalog titles perfect for summer listening!
Camera Obscura, My Maudlin Career: New Camera Obscura finally arrives on eMusic. Some of you may have heard this already but for those who haven’t — it’s fantastic. I’ve been iffy [...]

So… any good new releases today?
Obviously, today is Sony day, which sees a slew of popular — and not-so-popular — titles hit the site. There is a kind of giddy rush that comes from seeing, say, Bitches Brew or the first Stone Roses record turn up, and I’m already figuring my personal Save for [...]

Every two weeks or so, I update eMusic’s Best New Hip-Hop hub, adding the latest batches of indie hip-hop worth caring about. I’m gonna make a “now more than ever” pitch for some of these records, because if there’s a single season when hip-hop sounds the best, it has to be the summer.
Here’s what [...]

(that post title is for you, Todd, wherever you are)
So. Death Row Records.
Where to even start with this? Maybe with a statement of fact: love ‘em or hate ‘em, the records released on Death Row in the early 90s are classics — as foundational genre texts as, I dunno, Let it Bleed or, um, Trout [...]

(photo by marymactavish)
Today we’re happy to announce the return of a feature we started last year — “Indie Moms Sound Off!” This year, the mothers of members of the National, Okkervil River, Cut Copy, Bosque Brown, the Danielson Famile and many, many more tell us which of their kids’ songs they like the best and [...]

That DOOM. So unpredictable. You never know where he’s going to turn up. You can, however, make a pretty accurate guess as to where he’s not going to turn up: DOOM concerts, DOOM videos, DOOM in-stores, and so on. Here’s a joke: What’s the quickest way to get DOOM out of your living room? [...]

It’s been a while since we’ve done a hip-hop roundup, and the arrival of a few notable titles on the site make today as good a day as any.
Ghostface Killah, Hidden Darts: No big mystery why I’m starting here. Not only do I love Ghost, but this is the best of the batch, a mixtape [...]

To say this one snuck up on me would be an understatement. I’d never even kinda heard of the 7×7 Beat Series (out on the equally mysterious All City Dublin label) until I clicked out of sheer curiosity about 20 pages deep into browsing New on eMusic. Here are the basics:
The Deal: Seven 2-3 song [...]

I first saw Bishi perform one very hot night in the summer of 2006 at east London’s Bistroteque. The audience had started to blow out the candles on their tables – even the tiny amount of heat produced by a tea light was too much. The room was nearly dark when Bishi appeared, using her [...]

One of my abiding frustrations is, try though we may, we are curiously unable to persuade people to download hip-hop records from eMusic. It’s a predictable pattern: any time a hip-hop record is either Review of the Day or a Daily Download, it will not perform nearly as well as the indie records on either [...]

This week 17 Dots token Brit (i.e. me) has made it off the island and is currently hanging with the other Dotters in NYC. That said I still retain a strong commitment to my side of the Atlantic, so I’m going to totally ignore my surroundings and talk about Manchester-based Cats In Paris.
Cats In Paris [...]

For those of you out there who are anticon, hip-hop or electronic fans, the album that the Alias/Why? track Well Water Black is on (I mentioned it in this post) came in today. I haven’t been anticipating an album like this in quite a while. I was considering buying the limited edition physical [...]

Tuesday came with a torrent of notable new records; it was all I could do to come up for air after listening to it all. That said, I thought I’d sprinkle on an (extremely random) group of recent arrivals that may otherwise slip through the cracks.

So with Todd no longer around feel like someone’s got to keep representin on the electronic tip. I noticed a few arrivals of note today and this week, and have a few that I have recently discovered to share.

I know the “edit cartoon/animatronic things to lip sync popular songs” meme is soooo two months ago but…I couldn’t resist this. “Ante Up” by the estimable, shouty M.O.P. is one of my favorite rap tunes EVER and seeing it like this is a surreal (and surprisingly satisfying) experience.
If you wanna hear “Ante Up” in its [...]

Hearing “What You Won’t Do For Love” on the overhead speakers in the deli across the street today absolutely made my morning. Then finding out that we have a significant chunk, if not all, of Bobby Caldwell’s entire discography made my week. And THEN finding these youtube clips pretty much made my whole [...]

Eighteen years ago today 2 Live Crew’s album ‘As Nasty As They Want To Be’ was banned in their home state of Florida on grounds of obscenity. Following a ruling from Judge Jose Gonzalez, selling the album, released the previous year, was declared illegal. The ruling was overturned by the United States Court of [...]

So there’s not a whole lot of consistency in this post — just a shout about two records that I’ve really been into lately that I fear will slip through the cracks: EMC’s The Show and Children of Bodom’s Blooddrunk.