By J. Edward Keyes, Editor-in-ChiefThe only thing I love more than listening to music is talking about it, so when the opportunity came up to partner with the BuzzMedia family of blogs to obsess over the finer points of… more »
By Dave Sumner, eMusic ContributorGood grief, what a drop this week. There’s really no commonality among all or even a majority of this week’s Jazz Picks. A couple of veterans have new, and sublime, straight-ahead recordings. … more »
By Dave Sumner, eMusic ContributorRecent Jazz Pick, Beats & Pieces Big Band has been nominated for Ensemble of the Year in the 2012 Parliamentary Jazz Awards. A process of public voting got things started, and a selection committee… more »
By Jason Diamond, eMusic ContributorAs a Jewish guy, I've sometimes had to defend my love for old gospel records. If you're a fan of old soul, jazz or funk, you have to have some sort of appreciation for the stuff. Maybe… more »
By Jason Diamond, eMusic ContributorSo I tried this thing on my wife where I played the  song "Propagation" by Lower Dens and I asked her "If I told you this was a new Beach House song, would you believe… more »
By J. Edward Keyes, Editor-in-ChiefIt began simply enough: I got obsessed with Wax Idols' excellent full-length debut No Future last year, and decided to follow the woman behind the band, Hether Fortune, on Twitter. I had no idea what… more »
By Jason Diamond, eMusic ContributorOver the years there have been almost a dozen young bucks attempting to attain the mythic Next Springsteen status, formerly known as The Next Bob Dylan status that Springsteen himself captured in the 1970s. The… more »
A few weeks ago, I sat down with Laura Stevenson to talk about her brash, Crazy Horse-inspired new record Wheel. We talked about a lot of things: her strained relationship with her mom, her battles with depression as an adolescent and her teenage love of ska. But one stray comment has generated more chatter than anything else in the entire, several-thousand word interview: the fact that Stevenson suspects the footage of the moon landing was… more »