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Blouse, Blouse

The debut full-length by the Portland trio Blouse is full of aural tricks… more »

Kelly Clarkson, Stronger…

It's been nine years since Kelly Clarkson was crowned as the inaugural Am… more »

Kelly Clarkson, Stronger (Delu…

It's been nine years since Kelly Clarkson was crowned as the inaugural Am… more »

Mother Love Bone, Mother Love …

Listening to the scant amount of material recorded by the Seattle glam-pu… more »

PJ Harvey

PJ Harvey's Let England Shake is an explicitly political album, but "expl… more »

P.J. Harvey, Dry

Eighteen years on, the debut album from PJ Harvey still sounds fairly ast… more »

Icon: P.J. Harvey

Polly Jean Harvey was a notable figure in rock music almost from the exac… more »

Six Degrees of Janet Jackson…

It used to be easier to pretend that an album was its own perfectly self-… more »

Guns N’ Roses, Use Your …

A Wings cover, a 10-minute mini-opera that recalls Bloodrock's "… more »

Jazmine Sullivan, Love Me Back…

Philadelphia soul singer Jazmine Sullivan has a lusty, untameable voice, … more »

P.J. Harvey, Rid Of Me…

The cover of PJ Harvey's second album shows her in the shower —… more »

P.J. Harvey, 4-Track Demos…

Many attributed the hostile sound of Rid of Me to Steve Albini's engi… more »

P.J. Harvey, To Bring You My L…

Like its studio predecessor Rid of Me, To Bring You My Love fades in slow… more »

P.J. Harvey, Is This Desire?…

On Is This Desire? Harvey utilizes more machine-generated beats than on p… more »

P.J. Harvey, Uh Huh Her…

After the relative splendor of Stories from the City, Stories from the Se… more »

P.J. Harvey, Stories From The …

Perhaps PJ Harvey's most accessible record (complete with Thom Yorke … more »

P.J. Harvey, The Peel Sessions…

PJ Harvey had a particularly fruitful relationship with the tastemaking R… more »

P.J. Harvey, White Chalk…

The cover of White Chalk shows a harshly lit Harvey sitting in a white dr… more »

Guns N’ Roses, Use Your …

Use Your Illusion II feels like more of an odds-and-sods collection than … more »

Stone Temple Pilots, Core…

Many people blame the influence of Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam when runnin… more »

Muse, Origin Of Symmetry…

Muse's 2001 follow-up to its debut, Showbiz, had a long road to the U… more »

Black Mountain, Wilderness Hea…

Rock music in 2010 is in an odd place. Commercial radio is being pulled s… more »

Marnie Stern, Marnie Stern…

In years past, Marnie Stern's shorthand description usually involved … more »

Screaming Females, Castle Talk…

The New Jersey power trio Screaming Females was walloped by a ton of logi… more »

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At eMusic, we take pride in being the place you hear about artists first. Whether it's through our eMusic Selects program - which brought you the first releases by Best Coast, Crystal Stilts, Strand of… more »

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