Each month we roll out a new Best New Music hub collecting notable recent additions to the site, and the new one just went up. Anyone reading 17 Dots is an old pro at all of this now — we learn from you as much as you from us — but if you slept through [...]

There are an alarming number of new releases today, from both big names and new discoveries. It’s to the point where I cannot even fathom how long this post is going to take me to write. I will try my hardest not to bail halfway through.
But, you know, no guarantees.
And awayyyy we go…

A couple of great new arrivals — beyond Selected & Collected, of course, that are worthy of mention!

So I just keep staring at my list of albums to highlight from today (in the neighborhood of thirty) and feel incredibly daunted. Can we crowd-source this stuff? I’m going to start a list of links to albums that seem interesting and then from there we all figure out what we like? I dunno how [...]

Dig deep enough and you’ll find some gems. That’s not my motto, but for now let’s pretend. Really though, there were some interesting things that came through this week, and so let’s run through a few.
Various Artists, Dirtybeatbreakinfunkandhiphop: Maybe the best album that’s been added to eMusic in 2009. I mean that. We came across [...]

Nothing super big name today, but a bunch of little nuggets. Here’s a rundown of some of the notables and nice surprises new to the site this week.
Awesome Wells, The Highs and Lows of De Witt a Stanton: Surprise #1 and probably the most exciting one of today’s lot. “Hard to classify” gets thrown around [...]

We’ve been looking forward to this day for a very long time, and it was worth it. Oh, and some records came out, too! Andrew Bird, Bon Iver, Antony and the Johnsons and so many more. For those looking for Animal Collective, Telefon Tel Aviv or AC Newman, here’s the deal: AC goes up tomorrow; [...]

Not a lot happening today. Here’s what we got, along with one title that came in a while ago that I want to tease:

If you like to dig, the weekend haul is a great one.
Aziza Brahim, Mi Canto: Aziza Brahim comes from Western Sahara, a non-sovereign area situated among a few North African nations filled with nomadic people and refugees, the same place as Terakaft and Tinariwin, two groups that she is aligned pretty closely with, musically speaking. [...]

(Courtesy of Alex. I actually had this comic when I was a kid)
New on eMusic today: weirdness. Lots and lots of weirdness.

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 [...]

Sometimes two weeks can feel like a lifetime, and in the time I’ve been gone, it seems quite a few great records have hit the site. I want to look at a handful of them today, but first, let me share where my time away took me:

Me, my girlfriend and two friends of ours went [...]

A real heavyweight available in the US today: Omaha mega-indie Saddle Creek. It’s not all the titles, but just about all of the frontline names: Bright Eyes, The Faint, Cursive, Rilo Kiley, Tokyo Police Club. A quick rundown of the goods, and some nerdy reminiscing, after the jump.

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A few notable titles in today’s New Arrivals, so let the rundown begin!

The year is winding down and so there aren’t many marquee new releases to discuss. However, there are a few notable new additions worth checking out. Here they are.
Obits, 7″: Maybe you’ve heard of Obits and maybe you haven’t. But my post on Obits’ first-ever show is still one of the five most-read posts in [...]

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Lots of interesting new releases today, so without further ado —

New on eMusic today is a record that’s particularly close to my heart — mostly because it’s a record I worked with the Arena Rock label to get reissued. It’s one of my favorite records of all-time: Darn Floor — Big Bite by the group Daniel Amos. We’re giving a track away free, and I’ll [...]

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Some odds & sods in the last few days of new releases. Here’s a quick rundown of stuff that seemed exciting:

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A new day, new arrivals — nothing as awesome as yesterday’s haul, but still a few choice finds:

So obviously the massive, massive news from today is the arrival of the Black Saint and Soul Note catalogues. There are, so far, about 350 titles to choose from. By tomorrow afternoon, there will be upwards of 500.
We’re holding off on posting our guide to essentials from the two catalogues until tomorrow — and this [...]