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Melissa Maerz

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Unpublished Album with ID #11…

Long before Ziggy Stardust, the closest thing kids had to a glam-rock ico… more »

Interpol: The Fame Monster

Somewhere in Manhattan, hidden in a very dark corner of a Mexican restaur… more »

Dead Confederate, Sugar…

There's a reason why this Athens, Georgia, quintet is called Dead Con… more »

Jon Langford, Old Devils…

It's tough being an old curmudgeon in punk, which feels like a young … more »

Ray LaMontagne And The Pariah…

You can tell by his scruffy beard and his Deadwood vests that Ray LaMonta… more »

Atmosphere, Seven’s Tra…

With a head full of freshly inked rhymes and a backpack full of self-help… more »

Crowded House, Intriguer…

"Let's admit that the world don't turn around us," sings Crowded … more »

Macy Gray, The Sellout…

In a world of slick, Autotuned, hair-shellacked R&B divas, Macy Gray … more »

Sleigh Bells, Treats

The hip-hop beats sputter like someone dropped a boombox in a swimming po… more »

Blank Dogs, Under and Under…

In certain New York circles, everyone knows about Mike Sniper, but no one… more »

Bettye Lavette, Interpretatio…

Bettye LaVette doesn't just cover other people's songs — sh… more »

Broken Social Scene, Forgiven…

A few years back, when the ever-growing Broken Social Scene reached an al… more »

The Cars, Candy-O

When New Wave began, it belonged to the punks in the U.K. underground. It… more »

Six Degrees of The Cars…

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

Kelly Clarkson, My December…

From all the controversy surrounding Kelly Clarkson's second album, y… more »

Laura Veirs, July Flame…

You might know Laura Veirs as this year’s Folk-Singin’ Hot Gi… more »

The Traveling Wilburys, Trave…

Remember the days when record labels still believed that middle-aged dude… more »

Modest Mouse, No One’s …

Isaac Brock's never been the most optimistic guy. When life gives him… more »

El Perro Del Mar

Sarah Assbring sounds like the saddest 1960s girl group of all time … more »

eMusic Yearbook: 2001

Was September 11, 2001 really the day the music died? It sure seemed like… more »

listenlisten, Hymns From Rhod…

Call it Songs in the Key of Death: after finding an old book of church hy… more »

Who Are…Listenlisten

Banjo-picking, protest-singing, back-porch-rocking citizens of Texas, hav… more »

Box Elders, Alice and Friends…

Go ahead, call 'em goofballs, but no one in Omaha is having more fun … more »

Desolation Wilderness, New Un…

There's two kinds of beach music: the warm Tropicana pop that's b… 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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