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Rachael Maddux

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Rachael Maddux is a writer and editor living in Decatur, Ga. Her music-related stuff has appeared in Paste, the Oxford American, New York Magazine and Bust.

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Laura Stevenson, Wheel…

A question lurks in the background of Laura Stevenson’s Wheel like … more »

Iron & Wine, Ghost on Gh…

The seven studio LPs and EPs Sam Beam has made as Iron & Wine have u… more »

Jessica Pratt, Jessica Pratt…

Jessica Pratt’s self-titled debut is the kind of record that tends … more »

Lady Lamb the Beekeeper, Ripe…

The first two minutes of Lady Lamb the Beekeeper’s Ripely Pine seem… more »

TORRES, TORRES

The debut album by this woman who calls herself Torres (real name: Macken… more »

Martha Wainwright, Come Home …

“There are fewer and fewer people to complain to/ so I built a ship… more »

Beach House, Bloom

On Bloom, the fourth record by Baltimore duo Beach House, there aren… more »

Interview: Andrew Bird

Six albums into his career, Andrew Bird has established himself as a man … more »

Q&A: Kathleen Edwards

“Looking back, it was such a dumb idea,” Kathleen Edwards sin… more »

Colin Meloy, Wildwood

The Decemberists rocker sets his sights on C.S. Lewis territory A murder … more »

Six Degrees of Wildwood by Co…

No book is a perfectly self-contained artifact. Books are more permeable … more »

Peter Wolf Crier, Garden of A…

The first Peter Wolf Crier record, 2010′s Inter-Be, was the result … more »

The Horrible Crowes, Elsie…

It’s easy to peg Elsie — the first record from Gaslight Anthe… more »

Marissa Nadler on Wordless Si…

Marissa Nadler often seems like a woman out of time. She’s barely 3… more »

Bon Iver, Bon Iver

In the three years since Justin Vernon became known beyond the local scen… more »

The Decemberists, The Crane W…

It seems quaint now, but in 2006, after the long-independent Decemberists… more »

Iggy Pop, Lust For Life…

The years leading up to the release of Lust for Life, Iggy Pop's seco… more »

Joan Baez, Joan Baez, Vol. II…

When Joan Baez made her first album in 1960, she essentially put to tape … more »

Joan Baez, Joan Baez

These days, we tend to imagine a young Joan Baez in certain tableaus: her… more »

Six Degrees of The Beach Boys…

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

Who Is…Little Scream

Laurel Sprengelmeyer, who makes music as Little Scream, named her debut a… more »

The Rural Alberta Advantage, …

When woozy Canadian indie-rock act Rural Alberta Advantage released its f… more »

Iron & Wine

Sam Beam has been making music as Iron & Wine for nearly a decade now… more »

Who Is…Lia Ices

Lia Ices was born and raised in a beach town on the coast of Connecticut,… more »

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Kicking at the Boundaries of Metal

By Jon Wiederhorn, eMusic Contributor

As they age, extreme metal merchants often inject various non-metallic styles into their songs in order to hasten their musical growth. Sometimes, as with Alcest and Jesu, they develop to the point where their original… more »

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