By eMusic Editorial Staff, eMusic ContributorEvery year, when eMusic's editorial staff compiles our annual best-of list, the goal is never to come to some kind of academic determination of the year's best records via a series of complicated formulas and… more »

By eMusic Members, eMusic ContributorWe asked, you answered. And the results were as varied and eclectic as we've come to expect from eMusic members. Here are the results of our Member Poll for the Best Albums of 2012, along… more »

Beach House's "Wild" video

By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorJust when you thought listening to Beach House couldn't get any more depressing, one of Sweden's most disturbing directors (Johan Renck, who's worked with everyone from Madonna and Fever Ray to Walking Dead and Breaking… more »

By eMusic Editorial Staff, eMusic ContributorSince it began in 2006, Pitchfork Music Festival has been one of the most consistently forward-looking festivals of the summer season. Where other fests follow a time-tested pattern of Popular Headliner plus thousands of other… more »

By Marissa G. Muller, eMusic ContributorOn their fourth album Bloom, Alex Scally and Victoria Legrand present a stronger picture of the overcast dream-pop aesthetic they've maintained since their 2006 debut. And, much like an abstract painting, Teen Dream's glossier older… more »

By David Greenwald, eMusic ContributorD.I.Y. and hi-fi have rarely gone hand in hand. From the muscular crackle of Black Flag to the basement anthems of Guided by Voices, the sound of indie rock has long been the proudly noisy… more »

By Rachael Maddux, eMusic ContributorOn Bloom, the fourth record by Baltimore duo Beach House, there aren't hooks so much as sultry tendrils perpetually beckoning towards some smoky, purple-lit back alley that never entirely materializes. Alex Scally's guitar ribbons and… more »

By Jason Diamond, eMusic ContributorSo I tried this thing on my wife where I played the  song "Propagation" by Lower Dens and I asked her "If I told you this was a new Beach House song, would you believe… more »

By Mike Powell, eMusic ContributorIt's easy to hear the Baltimore duo Beach House as victims of prettiness. Their songs — mid-tempo puffs of teary indie-pop flecked with old soul and country — wouldn't dare intrude on a mellow mood… more »

By Caryn Ganz, eMusic ContributorIn the summer of 2010, Katy Perry revealed her vision of a Teenage Dream: top-down drives in convertibles, cotton-candy clouds, and perky, sexed-up pop. Baltimore duo Beach House unveiled their version of the Teen Dream… more »

By Yancey Strickler, eMusic ContributorBeach House is a lovely, unassuming straight pop record played as drone by Alex Scally and Victoria Legrand, two nice folks from Baltimore. On a strictly aesthetic level, Beach House fits neatly into the well-heeled… more »

By Todd Burns, eMusic ContributorNo offense to eMusic's previous Selects artists, but I get the sense that the only one of the bunch that could become a genuine pop star is one Randolph Chabot. Under the name Deastro, Chabot… more »