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Discover: New York Hip-Hop

Photo: Jay-Z While we’re usually cruising down 8th Street in a cab,… 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: Jamie Records

Harold Lipsius was perfectly positioned to take advantage of the integral… more »

Discover: Greatest Debuts

You know what they say about first impressions: a second to make, a lifet… more »

eMusic’s Guide to Pitch…

Since it began in 2006, Pitchfork Music Festival has been one of the most… more »

Discover: Essential Best-Of A…

Where to start? That’s a question we field often, whether someone… more »

Lords of the Underground: A G…

“Underground” is one of those tantalizingly vague terms that… more »

eMusic Essentials

From timeless classics to today’s leading trendsetters, eMusic is t… more »

25 Bands to See at Coachella …

There is every other music festival and then there is Coachella, the Cali… more »

It Came From New Jersey

Click for Full-Sized Image In the 40 years since Bruce Springsteen signed… more »

Discover: Coachella 2012

It’s a tradition by now, isn’t it? It being the annual debate… more »

Icon: The Roots

The more the Roots face the bright stage lights, whether on tour or Late … more »

2012 GRAMMY® Nomin…

The 2012 GRAMMY® nominations are in, and frankly, we’re … more »

A Musical History of Muscle S…

You’ve seen how the Muscle Shoals ghost reacted to the music of Sch… more »

Icon: Mary J. Blige

Mary J. Blige sometimes refers to herself in the third person, which you … more »

Label Profile: Light in the A…

File under: Revitalized funk, folk and rock records from the States and a… more »

Label Profile: Mello Music

File under: Measured, day-in-the-life musings set to crisp boom-bap beats… more »

Discover: Minneapolis, 1980-1…

At the end of 1984, 240 American rock critics voted in the Village Voice… more »

Video Q&A: DJ Shadow

When DJ Shadow decided to call his long-awaited fourth album The Less You… more »

What We’re Listening To…

Remember, during the halcyon days of the video store, the “Staff Pi… more »

Icon: Jay-Z

As he is fond of pointing out, by the time he released his debut album, R… more »

Icon: James Brown

Every James Brown show began with a hypeman introducing the star of the s… more »

Discover: Motown Records

Smokey Robinson stresses this in interviews: Motown billed itself “… 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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