Spotlights Archives
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 »
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 »

















