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 [...]

Hello Europe! Good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome to Belgrade and the 53rd Eurovision Song Contest!
Bonjour l’europe! Bonsoir Mesdames et Messieurs et bienvenue à Belgrade et la 53e Concours Eurovision de la chanson!
Okay, I’l stop this now, cheesy presenter-ese is too much for me even in a text format, but Eurovision is on us again. [...]

A few fantastic titles turned up on the site over the weekend, so I wanted to take a few minutes to point ‘em out. Before I do, though: your day will not be complete until you download tracks 17 & 18 from Life Goes in Circles. I re-discovered these two over the weekend. [...]

So you’re not into IDM, eh? That’s cool. We’ve still got some indie rock, African music, comedy and other goodies for you.

I discovered Bollywood musicals at a very young age. When her house was empty, my nextdoor neighbour Sharnveer and I would delve into her mum’s wardrobe, pulling out high heels that were too big for us and chunis, large scarves made of chiffon or silk: bright pinks and orange for her, deep greens and turquoise [...]

The music policy in the eMusic Europe office is usually dictated by whoever gets to the stereo first (and it’s right by my chair, so I have a natural advantage here) but when we can’t agree on anything we listen to FIP.
FIP is a French radio station, based in Paris (the initials stand for [...]

When I first heard Lio’s ‘Housewife of the Year’ I thought about a future where robots would do all of our menial chores and decided this would be the listening of choice for your AI-enhanced Domestibot XR4. It’s a rushing piece of 1980s electro-pop, with truly deluded vocals from a cute, but unreliable narrator. And [...]

Yes, I am bitterly disappointed with Carla Bruni. Not musically, not with her music in the slightest. More with her choice in men. Last Saturday she became France’s first lady. She’s gone and married the French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Oh dear.

Okay, Daniel, you win. Above is a 10-minute video (incredibly well edited, btw) of Tinariwen performing live at Other Music here in NYC. It is, to put it mildly, pretty damned good.
Elsewhere, I updated that best-selling albums of the year hub with the final tally, and the list expanded to 100 titles. A few things [...]

As a way of discovering music, fiction is often overlooked. True, a band you read about in a novel will never be the newest undiscovered big thing and there aren’t too many books out there with music at their heart, but fiction excels at giving you a flavour of what’s gone before and at giving [...]

Today, find out which album our critics picked as the best record of 2007 (UK subscribers, your Top 10 is here).
Also, check out the next installment in our series of interviews with ‘2007 Innovators.’ Today’s subject: Gogol Bordello’s Eugene Hutz. Choice quote: “Try to find me another live band that kicks our ass. Try [...]

Sharon Jones, Thom Yorke, John Fogerty, Dashboard Confessional, blah, blah, blah. All great records in their own little way. But let’s talk about some sure-to-be underappreciated stuff that came in yesterday.

Lots and lots of great stuff came in over the weekend. Here are just some of the highlights…

So not to stoke the Kala fire even further, but Maya did a session on KCRW yesterday in which she performed several songs from the Best Record of 2007, and also answered a few of Nic Harcourt’s questions (thanks to Gorilla Vs. Bear for the heads-up on this). also, if you haven’t seen it yet, [...]

Scrolling through the Aladdin’s Cave of curiosities and strange delights that is eMusic’s soundtracks/ other section; I came across this collection of British Pub Songs. They’re not presented in the best way here – far too much evidence of electronic input and bad production for songs best sung whilst having ‘a bit of a knees [...]

The new M.I.A. record, Kala (out in the US Aug. 21, Aug. 20 in the UK), is
a) absolutely ridiculous
b) some crazy-ass back-to-the-future-music time-warp kinda deal
c) a country mile better than the already-great Arular
d) the smartest/sickest/slickest pastiche/homage/collage/mélange of pop music I have ever heard

I just came back from the Museum of Modern Art and a screening of Fabricando Tom Zé, a documentary about the brilliant and idiosyncratic Brazilian composer, one of the founders of the fantastic and fascinating Tropicalia movement of the ’60s. (eMusic has a lot of his incredible music, and I suggest you check out [...]

Close, but…
As the production editor at eMusic, I get the unique chance to see nearly every piece of writing before it makes its way to the site. And, if I’m being honest, the stuff that really gets me excited is music that I’ve never heard of.

Part of the thrill of tooling around online is the ability — limited though it may be — to experience countries and cultures that are whole worlds away. I’ve got a bit of incurable wanderlust (despite the fact that I hate to fly), and I tend to spend hours on Flickr searching for photos tagged [...]

Three extremely good new records for everyone to check out today. All highly recommended.