eMusic Loves Honest Jon's

By eMusic Editorial Staff, eMusic Contributor

Has any musician ever demonstrated more impeccable taste than Blur's Damon Albarn? When it comes to finding strange, vital, compelling, and indelible new sounds, Albarn is like a coolness divining rod, and the label he formed in tandem with several highly influential UK record-shop owners, Honest Jon's, is one of the most reliably head-turning in existence. From the compilations they curate, which unearth unheard seams of funk, soul, and indigenous music from the world's must… more »