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2012 in Review: The R&B …

At the beginning of December, the song perched atop the Billboard’s… more »

It Came From New Jersey

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

New This Week: Sharon Van Ett…

OK! Are you guys ready to get bummed out? Because it’s the week bef… more »

New This Week: Lana Del Rey, …

Hey, have you guys heard anything about this Lana Del Rey person? I feel … more »

New This Week: Kathleen Edwar…

Hello! Welcome! It starts with a trickle, but always ends in a deluge: th… more »

New This Week: Keepaway, The …

HELLO! Welcome back! 2012! Here we are! Doing it in the 0-1-2! This will … more »

Hip-Hop’s Future Shock

Thumb-tacked to the wall of my room in my parents’ house is a list … 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 »

Top 20 Profoundly Meaningless…

Lil Wayne was the first rapper of the new millennium who dared to improve… more »

Active Child Talks Classic Hi…

With his strident falsetto and taste for grandiose, imposing production, … more »

Remembering Amy Winehouse

It used to be that when America fought a war, we’d see on TV the ca… more »

Aretha Franklin Sings the Pho…

Amidst the thousands of words attached to Columbia Records ‘massive… more »

Remembering Teena Marie

According to reports, Teena Marie died peacefully in her sleep the day af… more »

Sam Cooke: Soul and Inspirati…

Possessed of a purity of voice and an unerring sense of pop metaphysics, … more »

Camu Tao: The Cancer Diaries

Camu Tao knew he was sick long before he was diagnosed. The Definitive Ju… more »

Lost Soul Singles of the …

Jackie Moore‘s “Precious, Precious” is an amazing singl… more »

eMusic Yearbook: 2007

There’s really no debating that 2007 will be remembered, first and … more »

eMusic Yearbook: 2004

James Joyce wrote that his weapons as an artist would be “silence, … more »

Band Aid

On September 7th, a federal appeals court in Cincinnati, Ohio, all but cl… more »

Wordpower

First there was the word. Thousands of years later, legendary city planne… more »

KRS-One, Scott La Rock and B-…

Before they were legends, they were just two dejected young men trying to… more »

The Outer Limits: Kool Keith …

It was 1988 and space was, indeed, the final frontier. A brief history of… more »

Lost and Found: The Mystery o…

For those of us who regard art as an index of ideas, hopes and anxieties … 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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