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 »