What is an eMusic Takeover?

Charles Bradley

All this week, we’ve invited Charles Bradley and his co-writer and co-producer Tom Brenneck (also of the Menahan Street Band) to “Take Over eMusic.” The “eMusic Takeover” is a special honor we extend to artists we feel are true visionaries — forward-thinking, aggressively committed to their art, and unwavering from expressing their unique point of view in song. All it takes is even a cursory listen to Bradley’s second record, the slow-smoldering Victim of Love, to realize that he meets all of these criteria and then some. We are honored to have him as our honorary editor-in-chief for the week.

Any artist we ask to take over eMusic gets control over our editorial for that week: They assign interviews with artists they like and they handpick albums to run as Reviews of the Day that week. Past eMusic Takeovers have been conducted by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Jens Lekman, Edwyn Collins, John Lydon and Bjork. We are thrilled to add Charles Bradley to that esteemed list.

We’re always on the lookout for artists to add to this roster. So we turn the question to you: Which artist would you most like to see take over eMusic in the future?