eMusic Archives: Dozens
Alt/Punk Essentials
Alternative music takes the risk of running against the flow of pop, and … more »
Southern Indie
The West produces punk rockers screwed up by perfect weather and soul-cru… more »
Sarah Lee Guthrie's Kids M…
Sarah Lee Guthrie didn't grow up playing, writing or performing music… more »
Philly Soul, Pt. 2
The Sound of Philadelphia is the sound of home to me. I grew up in Philly… more »
Spiritual Roots of the Mountai…
For the last 18 years, John Darnielle has built a career on writing stori… more »
Kids Music
I'd like to think that my nine-year-old daughter's impeccable tas… more »
Sonic Youth Side Projects
After 28 years of fuzzy drug ballads and noisy guitar freakouts, it's… more »
Operatic Sopranos
When Paramount Pictures recruited the Met's new Wagnerian sensation K… more »
Singing Songwriters
As Sammy Fain says on one of these albums, the old adage about children c… more »
Philly Soul
I was born into the Sound of Philadelphia family in 1974. My father, Larr… more »
Smith vs. Jones
What's in a name? When I did the Big vs. Little and Slim vs. Fats doz… more »
Criss Cross
The biggest hurdle when compiling a Dozen devoted to the Criss Cross labe… more »
Brass Bands
"New Orleans is the hippest city on the planet," wrote a DJ for… more »
…Trail of Dead Dozen
For the last ten years, ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead have… more »
A Dozen of Funk
Funk used to be a bad word. Today, though, it denotes a rhythmic continuu… more »
Women of World Music
Good -- even great -- singers are everywhere. But true icons are very few… more »
Underrated Female Jazz Vocalis…
Lately it seems that female jazz singers come in two flavors. There's… more »
Saddle Creek Dozen
In an era where big labels are bleeding money while playing internet bad … more »
New Orleans Piano Professors
They played for (often lavish) tips in the bordello parlors of turn-of- t… more »
The New Sound of Scotland
Not since the revival of the 1960s has Scottish folk music been as strong… more »
Righteous Babe Dozen
Like many indie record labels, Righteous Babe offers an undiluted distill… more »
Go-Go Music!
Once upon a time Washington D.C.'s go-go and New York hip-hop were bo… more »