Guides Archives Country / Folk
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Discover: Finders Keepers
An enthusiasm for sounds lost, unknown, ignored or brain-meltingly weird … more »
Free eMusic Samplers
It’s easy to get stuck in a musical rut. The amount of new music th… more »
Discover: ATO Records
It can be difficult keeping up with the weekly avalanche of new music, bu… more »
Discover: Warner Music Classi…
For years, Warner Brothers Records has been home to musicians who want to… more »
Going Through Changes
One of the great, long-running mythologies in popular music is the one su… more »
Discover: Greatest Debuts
You know what they say about first impressions: a second to make, a lifet… more »
Discover: Essential Best-Of A…
Where to start? That’s a question we field often, whether someone… more »
Icon: Willie Nelson
Country music has created its fair share of superstars, icons and tragic … more »
Discover: Willie Nelson
Country music has created its fair share of superstars, icons and tragic … more »
eMusic Essentials
From timeless classics to today’s leading trendsetters, eMusic is t… more »
Guide: Johnny Cash’s Am…
While Johnny Cash wasn’t exactly forgotten when he and Rick Rubin t… more »
A Musical History of Muscle S…
You’ve seen how the Muscle Shoals ghost reacted to the music of Sch… more »
Label Profile: Light in the A…
File under: Revitalized funk, folk and rock records from the States and a… more »
The World of Wilco
It’s a tribute to leader Jeff Tweedy’s enduring commitment to… more »
What We’re Listening To…
Remember, during the halcyon days of the video store, the “Staff Pi… more »
Icon: Merle Haggard
There’s never been a country music career anything like that of Mer… more »
Loretta Lynn
Listening to Loretta Lynn’s burly, swinging voice as it bounces thr… more »
Icon: George Jones
Certainly there have been greater all-around artists, writers/singers/per… more »
Icon: Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash, who would have been 80 on February 26, is still everywhere i… more »
Icon: Simon and Garfunkel
Maybe it’s the duo’s indelible association with The Graduate … more »
A User’s Guide to Pete …
Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie stand alongside each other, incontrovertibl… more »
A User's Guide to the Voi…
If you want to understand a country, look at its folk music. Not the new … more »
A User's Guide to Martin …
You can't travel far into British folk music without bumping into Mar… more »
A User's Guide to June Ta…
June Tabor is a name spoken in hushed, revered tones in folk circles as o… 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 »