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From yesterday. More to come on the complete showcase later today. It was amazing, though. Amazing.

I’ve been listening to this song for the past 12 years. It’s funny and angry and a total staple for your classic Boys Suck mix. So imagine my delight when this afternoon Dar Williams performed “As Cool As I Am” right in the middle of eMusic’s kitchen! At my request (in a round about [...]

The video above (of Crystal Stilts highlight “Through the Floor”) showcases the Stilts’ latest lineup, with new(ish) drummer Frankie and keyboardist Kyle — it’s a full, fierce sound and miles from when I first saw the band about a year ago.
I first heard about Crystal Stilts when I was trying to book their bro-band, NYC [...]

I don’t ask for much. All I wanted last night was for Goldie to win Maestro and for British Sea Power or Burial to win the Mercury. But the Mercury judges clearly don’t care for my views and gave the prize to Elbow for The Seldom Seen Kid. Curses. But my Mercury choices never [...]

(photo by Valerosaspina)
So there’s an insane number of new releases today. Let’s take a quick spin through some of the notables:

There are a couple of things that have caught my attention recently. And hey, at least two of them are available worldwide!

There are just four days to go until the eMusic Selects Showcase, and to help keep momentum going, we’ve decided to spend each of those days focusing on a different band. Today’s featured artist: Breathe Owl Breathe. I fell in love with this band from the second I heard the sweet, lilting “Playing Dead,” [...]

I don’t dare try to fill the (dancin’) shoes of the legendary-’round-these-parts Todd L. Burns, but I will try from time to time to share some electronic music I find of interest. This week has actually been incredibly fruitful for electronic music, not least in part because of the (US) arrival of Domino Records. First, [...]

On Saturday night I brought a few trusting friends out to see Selector Dub Narcotic, DJ Ian Svenonius and DJ Jonathan Toubin lay down a very serious dance party at Glasslands in Brooklyn. On Monday night, Alex attended the Santos Party House version.

So a whole bunch of Barsuk titles dropped today, but I fear that lost amongst the John Vanderslice and Mates of State will go one of my all-time favorite Barsuk releases, Aveo’s Battery. I’m probably going to work up a proper review of this sometime soon, but I strongly encourage you to check this album [...]

Let’s run through some quick news you can use:
#1 The new Selects albums, from Blackblack and Sprengjuhöllin are spectacular. Really, really great, and I wholeheartedly recommend both. We are, yet again, proud of these albums — as we have been with all of our choices, naturally — and I hope you trust us enough to [...]

Today, we’re thrilled to bring you two brand new eMusic Selects artists: from Iceland, marauding pop group Sprengjuhöllin and L.A.’s ramshackle, endearing, mysterious Blackblack.

Something funny’s happened to “Teenage Kicks” in the last few years. The Undertones’ first single has always been a strange beast, combining punk’s jittering attack with pop’s shiny-shiny – after all “Teenage Kicks” crystallised the weird adolescent state where even boredom feels anticipatory, but it was also the one punk song your mum liked. But [...]

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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 [...]

New today on eMusic: Kompakt! Along with some swinging ’60s Spanish pop on Tam-Tam.

Not all of the best bands tour or even put out records. Some of them don’t even exist. As it’s Friday, take some time out from reality and have a look at a selection of fiction’s finest musicians.
The Good
Dr Teeth and the Electric Mayhem - The Muppet Show

The best-non human rock band in the [...]

I’ve reached the age where my friends are starting to have babies. After feeling slightly freaked out at first, I’m now pretty keen on spending time with my friends’ sprogs – after all they’re basically a smaller, version 2.0 of someone I already like and I get to do all the fun, rolling on the [...]

Last night, a group of us from eMusic headed over to the Damrosch Park Bandshell at Lincoln Center for a show that I hardly believed possible: Extra Golden, Alemayehu Eshete and Mahomoud Ahmed with the Either/Orchestra and saxophonist Getatchew Mekurya backed by The Ex. If someone asked me to design my fantasy bill, it [...]