(it never stops watching you) A few days ago, we asked you to submit questions for My Morning Jacket to be asked in our first-ever eMusic Twitter Interview. And ask you did! And answer they did! And now the truth can be told! Below the jump: the transcript of the inaugural eMusic Twitter Q&A! Spoiler [...]

As we head into the 4th of July weekend with firecrackers in one hand and a frosty six-pack in the other, the eMusic staff thought we’d help soundtrack your next barbecue by offering some of our favorite reissues and best-of compilations — revolutionary records, if you will — for just $4.99 or less. As the [...]

Happy Birthday, you fabulous asshole.

April was a phenomenal month for new releases here, and of course when the influx is so great many fantastic albums end up falling through the cracks.  Here are a few of the most criminally overlooked albums of April, please to be sharing your lists as well!

What’s that you say? 50 million new releases are not enough? You need something beardier? Something that smells vaguely of weed and hot tar? LOOK NO FURTHER, FRIENDS. Ye Olde Thunderstealers My Morning Jacket have arrived today to distract you from the Foo Fighters and TV on the Radio and poor old Paul Simon with [...]

Well, SNL was on again this past Saturday and, despite the best efforts of Dame Helen Mirren, it was kind of a dud. This season is stuck in a strange spot, pairing a genuinely good cast with some genuinely terrible writing. Real People Problems! One thing that didn’t suck, though, was the Foo Fighters, whose [...]

Greil Marcus interviews D.A. Pennebaker about filming Bob Dylan from New Video Digital on Vimeo. If you find yourself looking for a good reason to hate Bob Dylan and also have not seen D.A. Pennebaker’s legendary Don’t Look Back, well, my friend, let me introduce you to a little saying I like to call “two [...]

Marc Bolan’s musical career began as Tyrannosaurus Rex, a moniker under which he created a handful of whimsical folk records in the late 1960s, attracting influential fans and collaborators such as Tony Visconti and John Peel. With a new decade came a new sound and a shortened band name: 1970′s T. Rex introduced Bolan’s glam [...]

“He would fucking hate this comparison, but reading Christgau the first time was exactly like hearing Bob Dylan for the first time.” –Rob Sheffield To mark the publication of rock critic Rob Sheffield’s second book, an “I Love the 80s”-style tribute to the music of his youth called Talking to Girls About Duran Duran, eMusic’s [...]

More arrivals from the WMG vaults today, sure to satisfy no matter what your personal tastes. And be warned: this is just the first of many Wednesday catalog drops, as we slowly bring the rock and pop legends to eMusic. Today sees the arrival of two artists who couldn’t be further apart on the stylistic [...]

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 [...]

My friend Ben’s obsession with the perfect-spring-music pop album that Phoenix is about to release (I am late on the Phoenix train by at least three years, but hoo boy I’m on board now) led him to Google the term “Lisztomania,” the title of the first track off of the upcoming Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. Lisztomania, [...]

“I like new Sonic Youth the best.” It was an innocuous-enough sort of thing to say, I figured. In the canon of “stupid stuff I say in the office,” I figured it wouldn’t even be top five (today’s winner was “I never really ‘got’ The Stone Roses”). The link to a Thurston-edited snippet/preview track from [...]

Meet Kurt Vile. His Constant Hitmaker is one of my sleeper faves of 2008, but for some reason I haven’t ‘Dot’d him yet. The procrastination paid off, though — Hitmaker seems tailor-made perfect to soundtrack the onset of the (so far beautiful) New York City fall. The short of it: Philly-based lo-fi guitar pop guy [...]

When the Perfect Unpop comp hit the site a few months ago, it went relatively unmentioned around these parts. I’ve been loving it — and re-loving it each time I return. For reasons unknown/unexplainable, I haven’t big up’d it here, but that all changes today! Coming from the essential Cherry Red, Perfect Unpop is billed [...]

The “Goth will never die” piece in the NY Times the other day, besides offering the profoundly jarring mental picture of a NY Times fashion reporter joining “I’m a Goth!” Facebook groups to conduct research/interviews, did manage to get me thinking about the two or three poor souls in the extremely blue-collar town where I [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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.

It’s the small touches I like best about Latitude, like finding a full living room set, mantelpiece included, when wondering through the woods at night. I like the art works hanging from the trees, the pastel-coloured sheep and the ballet dancers and gondoliers on the lake. The festival took place last weekend in the grounds [...]