eMusic Archives: Icons
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Icon: Sleater-Kinney
From their formation in Washington State in the mid-1990s to their amicab… more »
Icon: Kraftwerk
Like many German bands of the early 1970s, Düsseldorf's Kraftwerk aimed t… more »
Icon: Pulp
Some artists take a while to find their mature voice, and few have taken … more »
Icon: The Roots
The more the Roots face the bright stage lights, whether on tour or Late … more »
Icon: The Kronos Quartet
"Music is a huge place," violinist David Harrington once said, and no ens… more »
Icon: Mary J. Blige
Mary J. Blige sometimes refers to herself in the third person, which you … more »
Icon: Tom Waits
Tom Waits's career can be easily split into halves: the barfly crooner an… more »
The World of Wilco
It's a tribute to leader Jeff Tweedy's enduring commitment to artistic re… more »
Icon: Pearl Jam
When Pearl Jam finally compiled a catalog-skimming greatest hits collecti… more »
Icon: Queen
It's not often that a single band features one charismatic showman, two v… more »
Icon: Youssou N’Dour
Your first exposure to Youssou N'Dour's soaring tenor keen likely came on… more »
Icon: Death Cab for Cutie
You can imagine Ben Gibbard's late-'90s Bellingham, Washington, bedroom; … more »
Icon: Patti Smith
A singular artist in an era where female musicians were most often kept u… more »
Icon: John Adams
Whenever a new composer "arrives," a portion of the ensuing excitement co… more »
Icon: Fugazi
"Beautiful, funny people. Generous to and respectful of the people they w… more »
Icon: Wire
One way of describing Wire is to say that they've effectively been three … more »
Icon: Merle Haggard
There's never been a country music career anything like that of Merle Hag… more »
Icon: The Beach Boys
This year, the Beach Boys celebrate their half century - silver surfers a… more »
Icon: Brian Eno
Surely few could have foreseen, watching the Top of the Pops in 1972, tha… more »
Icon: Bryan Ferry & Roxy M…
It was early 1976. Roxy Music was coming to town, and if I couldn't see t… more »
Icon: Tina Turner
Over an extraordinary career that spans six decades, Tina Turner has pers… more »
Icon: Radiohead
Radiohead notice how we're increasingly staring into unreality - on the c… more »
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eMerging Artists
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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