Brian Raftery
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Brian Raftery has written for Wired, GQ, SPIN, New York, and Esquire. His first book, Don’t Stop Believin’: How Karaoke Conquered the World and Changed My Life, was released in 2008 by Da Capo Press.
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It Came From New Jersey
Click for Full-Sized Image In the 40 years since Bruce Springsteen signed… more »
Interview: Cloud Nothings
Just over two years ago, Dylan Baldi was a bored Cleveland teenager livin… more »
Cloud Nothings, Attack on Memo…
For the last few years, 20-year-old Cleveland native Dylan Baldi has been… more »
Louis CK, Hilarious
On his first album since 2008's profane game-changer Chewed Up, stand… more »
Janet Jackson, Control…
By the time 19-year-old Janet Jackson stepped into the studio to record C… more »
Elastica, Elastica
For those of us in the U.S., the '90s Britpop explosion often felt le… more »
Queens of the Stone Age, Rated…
Released during a particularly low-brow, low-watermark period in rock his… more »
R. Kelly, Untitled
Once you've taken listeners to a Sex Planet, where do you possibly go… more »
R. Kelly, Untitled
Once you've taken listeners to a Sex Planet, where do you possibly go… more »
Oasis, Definitely Maybe…
By the mid-'90s, most Americans had given up on British rock, which w… more »
Future Islands, In Evening Air…
As any practiced insomniac will tell you, the human body can go for about… more »
Carnival Season, Misguided Pro…
About halfway through Carnival Season's brief 21-track canon, you sta… more »
Tame Impala, InnerSpeaker…
The debut album from this Australian quartet begins with pure static … more »
The Monkees, Pisces, Aquarius,…
Though it features only one genuine hit - "Pleasant Valley Sunday," an in… more »
The Monkees, Pisces, Aquarius,…
Though it features only one genuine hit - "Pleasant Valley Sunday," an in… more »
Van Halen, Van Halen
It's hard to remember now, but long before the off-stage tantrums and… more »
Oasis, [What's The Story] Morn…
If you really want to enjoy Oasis' gargantuan-selling sophomore effor… more »
INXS, Kick
Much like U2's The Joshua Tree and Prince's Sign o' the Times… more »
Van Halen, 1984
One can only imagine how bewildering it was to hear 1984 in 1984: After y… more »
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By J. Edward Keyes, Editor-in-Chief
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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