Shaking Through Vol2 Ep8: Family Band from Weathervane Music on Vimeo. The awesomely talented eMusic Selects alum Family Band took a trip to Philly a few weeks ago, teaming up with Grizzly Bear‘s Dan Rosen to arrange and record a new song live in the studio. The resulting song, like all things Family Band, is [...]

Here are 10 of our favorite videos from this week, including recent clips from the Coathangers and Battles, and an early look at Justice‘s long-awaited second album. Check back every Friday for eMusic’s complete rundown of what you need to be watching right now…

As we head into the holiday weekend and kids across the country get ready to head back to school, eMusic thought we’d hold a crash course of our own — one that covers the entire spectrum of rock music, from riot grrrls to heavy metal heathens, from punk legends to icons who don’t need an [...]

Now that our YouTube channel is up and running, eMusic is now the place for everything from exclusive interviews to carefully curated playlists that make sense out of the Web’s pixelated trash heap. As part of the latter, we’ll be bringing you a breakdown of our favorite videos every Friday, starting with Washed Out gone [...]

I have not been paying enough attention to this band. Alaskan band’s Atlantic Records debut after a formidable indie career finds them trying to imagine what it would be like if Butch Walker produced T. Rex. Or if every Spacehog song sounded like “In the Meantime.” For $6.99, if you have a soft spot for [...]

Tyler, the Creator. Pusha T. And a trunk-throttling Neptunes beat. Do you need any other details? Grab “Trouble On My Mind” here.

EAR PWR – “National Parks” from SAL on Vimeo. About a month ago, we got the newest record from EAR PWR, a great, laid-back psych duo with a fondness for spiralling analog synths and soft, cooing vocals. I was instantly hooked — there’s something not unlike Kate Bush in their dreamy, expansive music, otherworldliness that [...]

The only thing better than a metal band is a metal band with a sense of humor. Enter Mastodon and a gaggle of pissed-off puppets. Backstory: Since their inception, the group has gradually drawn out the artier inclinations that were always at the center of their storming songs. Though not everyone agrees with me, I [...]

While a new Tinariwen record is reason enough to rejoice, the band’s Anti- debut (Tassili, due out August 30th) rounds out their hypnotist hooks with session work from members of Wilco (Nels Cline), TV on the Radio (Tunde Adebimpe, Kyp Malone), and Dirty Dozen Brass Band (their entire horn section). Check out the album’s first [...]

(this guy!) If you’re anything like us, you like reality television programs that are structured around some kind of competition — and even moreso when the competition in question is musical. Enter Platinum Hit, the new Bravo show hosted by American Idol expat Kara DioGuardi and four-time Alaskan yodeling champion Jewel. Jewel! Dreams last so [...]

There are few things I enjoy as much as combing the stacks in record stores, and sometimes I’ll be faced with a dull Saturday night where I’m outside New York City with nothing but time and not much to do — except to go diving through the eMusic stacks. I had just such a night [...]

U2 brought the latest leg of their U2 360 Tour in Seattle Saturday night, but I’m betting the drunk guy hilariously captured at the right side of the screen, starting at about 40 seconds in, doesn’t remember a minute of it.

While Ryan Kattner’s currently busy donning his Honus Honus guise on the road with Man Man, the singer/multi-instrumentalist will show a poppier side later this summer, as his Sub Pop supergroup Mister Heavenly release their debut record. Due out August 16th, Out of Love features the dueling vocals of Islands mastermind Nick Thornburn and Modest [...]

“If you’re in a studio making an album you can easily say, “Fuck everyone, I’m making this music for me” … but if you are going to start standing up and inviting people to come and see you … You have to at least something that’s worth being there for.” So says acclaimed electronic musician [...]

Kissing Cousins-You Bring Me Down-Official Music Video from Kissing Cousins on Vimeo. A few weeks ago, th LA band Kissing Cousins released their latest EP, Unfortunate End. Broadly speaking, the cousins traffic in the same kind of doomy, ’50s-inspired neo-garage as Dum Dum Girls and the Raveonettes, but there’s something about them that’s more haunting [...]

My hero and his band, destroying it in France. After the jump, “Disco 2000″

We’ll let this one speak for itself. Still no word on exactly when Justice‘s second album will actually drop on Ed Banger, but we’re told sometime “later this year.”

Battles | Wall Street | A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo. On June 7, Battles will end a four-year hiatus with the release of highly-anticipated second record Gloss Drop. So what’s the logical thing to do? Go to Paris with filmmaker Vincent Moon and record inside a room that looks, more or [...]

Happy Birthday, you fabulous asshole.

(barely does it justice) Last night at New York’s Bowery Ballroom there was a concert in celebration of the 10th Anniversary of Michael Azerrad’s seminal work on independent music, Our Band Could Be Your Life. And it was great. The concept was clever and worked perfectly: a who’s who of today’s indie all-stars (including eMusic [...]