By eMusic Editorial Staff, eMusic ContributorEvery week, eMusic's editorial team assembles a newsletter called The Crib Sheet, which features the five new records we think are essential listening. This is your chance to tell us what you think of the… more »
By Douglas Wolk, eMusic ContributorElvis Costello and the Roots' drummer/majordomo Questlove have a couple of big things in common: For one, they're both the children of professional musicians. (Quest's parents were in the Philly soul group Congress Alley; Costello's… more »
By Douglas Wolk, eMusic ContributorElvis Costello and the Roots' drummer/majordomo ?uestlove have a couple of big things in common: For one, they're both the children of professional musicians. (?uest's parents were in the Philly soul group Congress Alley; Costello's… more »
By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorThe Roots and Elvis Costello have unveiled their first collaborative record, Wise Up Ghost. Due out next Tuesday through Blue Note, it's available to stream below via The Guardian. Don't expect a mashup album along… more »
By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorAs if ?uestlove wasn't busy enough promoting his new memoir and leading The Roots in their nightly Fallon gig, the drummer recently wrapped an entire Roots record with the one and only Elvis Costello. Due… more »
By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorGov't Mule have lined up quite a guest list for their first studio record in four years. Due out September 24th through the the band's new label, Blue Note, Shout! features an entire LP of… more »
By Douglas Wolk, eMusic ContributorElvis Costello and the Roots' drummer/majordomo ?uestlove have a couple of big things in common: For one, they're both the children of professional musicians. (?uest's parents were in the Philly soul group Congress Alley; Costello's… more »
By Jayson Greene, Managing EditorThe internet is currently resplendent in Fiona love, so apologies if these feels like an SEO pile-on. But sometimes we can use the SEO pile-on effect for good. Like here. Â "I Want You" is my favorite… more »
By Dan Hyman, eMusic ContributorIs it the song or the singer? Hunker down with a Bob Dylan song -- or 50 -- and where's the debate? Brilliant songs are open books; singers can be replaceable. It's hardly shocking then,… more »
By eMusic Editorial Staff, eMusic ContributorThe only thing ardent music fans seem to enjoy more than watching artists unquestionably succeed is getting to see them fall flat on their faces. It's reassuring to know that our heroes are fallible, even… more »
By Douglas Wolk, eMusic ContributorSmart, angry and mercurial, Elvis Costello is one of the greatest living songwriters; for better or worse, he knows it. The man with the big spectacles (born Declan MacManus) is an exile everywhere he goes:… more »
By Douglas Wolk, eMusic ContributorIt took Costello a good long while, but he finally addressed the legacy of that other King Elvis — on a regally assured, uncharacteristically relaxed and expansive album on which his rotating backup included several… more »
By Douglas Wolk, eMusic ContributorIt takes all of five seconds for Elvis Costello's second album to kick into high gear. "I don't wanna kiss you, I don't wanna touch," he sneers. (You were expecting a love song?) Then Pete… more »
By Douglas Wolk, eMusic ContributorThe legend goes that when the London independent label Stiff Records announced that it was open for business and accepting demo tapes, a struggling young songwriter named Declan MacManus (formerly of the not-very-successful pub-rock band… more »
By Douglas Wolk, eMusic ContributorThe legend goes that when the London independent label Stiff Records announced that it was open for business and accepting demo tapes, a struggling young songwriter named Declan MacManus (formerly of the not-very-successful pub-rock band… more »
By Douglas Wolk, eMusic ContributorCostello's second collection of B-sides and miscellany is his most scattered album — spanning eight years' worth of sessions, it was originally released as a "Various Artists" record (with individual tracks credited to the Coward… more »
By Douglas Wolk, eMusic ContributorIt takes all of five seconds for Elvis Costello's second album to kick into high gear. "I don't wanna kiss you, I don't wanna touch," he sneers. (You were expecting a love song?) Then Pete… more »
By Douglas Wolk, eMusic ContributorCostello's always had a thick strain of "don't you tell me what to do!" running through him, and perhaps the quickest possible way to convince his new wave audience that he wasn't interested in toeing… more »
By Douglas Wolk, eMusic ContributorBy the time Costello recorded his fifth studio album, he'd been on the music-biz treadmill for four years — apparently, a lot of its songs were reworked from fragments that had been sitting around for… more »
By Douglas Wolk, eMusic Contributor"Probably the worst record that I could have made of a decent bunch of songs," Costello's called this one, and though it's not entirely a stinker, he's close. (Some of the arrangements are better than… more »
By Douglas Wolk, eMusic ContributorFrom the utterly perfect opening line of "Accidents Will Happen" on down, this is Costello and the Attractions' big new wave record, and the first of many albums he's made with a conceptual framework: the… more »
By Douglas Wolk, eMusic ContributorAfter the rococo extravagance of Imperial Bedroom and the country detour of Almost Blue, Costello and the Attractions shifted gears again, working with hit producers Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley in an attempt to work… more »
By Douglas Wolk, eMusic ContributorElvis Costello's always recorded more material than there's room for on his albums, and for the first few years of his career, he was really cranking 'em out. Shortly after his fourth record, the 20-song… more »
By Douglas Wolk, eMusic ContributorIt takes all of five seconds for Elvis Costello's second album to kick into high gear. "I don't wanna kiss you, I don't wanna touch," he sneers. (You were expecting a love song?) Then Pete… more »