By eMusic Editorial Staff, eMusic ContributorHeaded to Tennessee but still not sure who you want to see? Fear not: We've boiled the brain-busting Bonnaroo schedule down to 20 essential sets. more »

Boiler Room heats up

Photo: Andrew Parks

By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorHey, at least it didn't happen earlier in the week; that's the first thought that sprang to mind last night, as I bookended South by Southwest with a boot to the face —and broken glasses!… more »

James Hetfield appears to be enjoying himself

By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorMetallica have confirmed the lineup for their second annual Orion Music + More Festival. Set to hit Detroit's Belle Isle Park the weekend of June 8th and 9th, it features both obvious (Red Hot… more »

Bonnaroo 2012

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By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorIn yet another move away from its dirty hippie roots, Bonnaroo has tapped such pleasant surprises as Swans, Death Grips, Purity Ring, Earl Sweatshirt and, um, Billy Idol for this summer's festival. As for who's… more »

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 Ryan Reed, eMusic ContributorIt's not as if Björk, Iceland's avant-pop electro-princess, really needed to put out a remix album. Biophillia, her eighth studio LP, is remembered more as a multimedia experiment than a collection of songs – with… more »

Pitchfork Music Festival Paris

By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorThanks a lot Pitchfork. No really; it's bad enough that Paris already makes better croissants than us. But then you had to go and book a better version of your annual music festival for our… more »

The latest Death Grips video

By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorJust in time for their first proper shows in what feels like forever — Death Grips canceled a national tour on the cusp of completing their new album, No Love — the Sacramento-based trio has… more »

By Jayson Greene, Managing EditorWhen Death Grips signed to Sony last year, it was one of the weirder underground punk band/major-label bigwig marriages in several years. The band, led by virtuosic drummer Zach Hill, played an improvised-explosive-device punk music… more »

By eMusic Editorial Staff, eMusic ContributorWe're about halfway through the year, which means even if you're behind on new releases, there's still plenty of time to catch up on what you might've missed. Here are some of our editors' favorites… more »

By Arye Dworken, eMusic ContributorIf somehow, in the year 2012, you're still looking for evidence of the changing face of the record industry, consider that the Sacramento noise/punk-rap trio Death Grips was recently signed to Epic Records by L.A.… more »

By Nate Patrin, eMusic ContributorThe first impulse after listening to Death Grips' The Money Store might scan similarly to the initial take of their debut Exmilitary: hip-hop as skater thrash, the more aggro strains of both worlds fused in… more »

By Jason Diamond, eMusic ContributorThere's a very good reason why rap + rock ='s run for the hills. It has been awful since somewhere in-between the release of Faith No More's video for "Epic," and the Judgement Night soundtrack.  So that… more »

By Hua Hsu, eMusic ContributorThumb-tacked to the wall of my room in my parents' house is a list I printed out in the year 2000. Hiphopsite.com, an online hip-hop record store had produced a list of the 100 most… more »