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 Daniel Miller, eMusic Contributor2012 has been a brilliant year for independent label Mute. As well as acclaimed releases from Liars, Can, Cold Specks, Yeasayer, Carter Tutti Void and Beth Jeans Houghton, label boss Daniel Miller was recently awarded… 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 »

By Jason Diamond, eMusic ContributorFor those keeping count: "Brats," the second single off Liars latest, WIXIW, is about an 8 1/2 on the Total Banger chart. It sounds like it's influenced quite a bit by techno from the 1990s, but upon closer… more »

By eMusic Editorial Staff, eMusic ContributorSome artists just have it: the ability to lead us around by the nose. We happily let them do anything; they have passports to go anywhere, try whatever crazy idea pops into their head. Wear… 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 Andy Beta, eMusic ContributorA decade into their career, it's becoming hard to remember that, at the dawn of the 21st century, Liars were once labeled a post-punk band in the vein of Gang of Four and PiL, right… more »

By Brandon Soderberg, eMusic ContributorWith every release, invigorated both by self-imposed limits and half-baked experiments, Liars discover new aesthetic worlds. Consider the 30-minute dance-punk-to-drone closer "This Dust Makes That Mud" off their 2001 debut They Threw Us All in… more »

Liars

By Jason Diamond, eMusic ContributorIt's strange to think of that brief period in the early '00s when Liars was considered a buzz band mostly due to associating with Yeah Yeah Yeah's and TV on the Radio, band members living… more »

By Philip Sherburne, eMusic ContributorSisterworld, Liars' fifth album, is dedicated to alternate universes — not quite parallel, perhaps, but timelines threaded through our own world, dipping in and out like needlepoint. So it seems fitting that the record should… more »

By Philip Sherburne, eMusic ContributorSisterworld, Liars' fifth album, is dedicated to alternate universes — not quite parallel, perhaps, but timelines threaded through our own world, dipping in and out like needlepoint. So it seems fitting that the record should… more »

By Christopher R. Weingarten, eMusic ContributorOne of the most important records of the '00s nearly slipped through our fingers. Seemingly without warning, Brooklyn's party-punk pin-ups transformed into abrasive, hypnotic, weird-as-fuck noise-punk terrorists. Critics recoiled: Liars fell from Pitchfork's favor ("impenetrable… more »