By Jayson Greene, Managing EditorEvery year, hardcore music fans wrestle with the same wonderful problem:There are too many records. Even if we listened to nothing but new records, non-stop, the numbers just don’t add up; we’re going to miss… more »
By eMusic Editorial Staff, eMusic ContributorOur editors Joe Keyes and Laura Leebove have departed for Chicago's Pitchfork Festival, where they'll be issuing daily reports on all the best stuff they see. R. Kelly? Bjork? White Lung? Foxygen? The festival has… more »
By Andy Beta, eMusic ContributorIn most other cultures, the beard is a sign of maturity, wisdom, an indicator of "yang" energy; but in America, the bearded are pushed to the fringe, to the brambled outskirts of a well-groomed, highly… more »
By eMusic Editorial Staff, eMusic ContributorWhat Ariel Pink does for sunshine-bright AM-radio 1970s pop, Sean Nicholas Savage does for cool-bleu French pop and sea-breezy faux-tropicalisms – basically, he turns to all the moldering corners of used vinyl not covered by Pink and renders them fascinatingly new and strange. His breathy, emotive vocals have a hint of air-quotes in them, but are unmistakably beautiful; ditto the quavery, feather-light sounds, which mix up you memories of cheese from the 1950s and the 1970s into something piquant and pretty. more »
By eMusic Editorial Staff, eMusic ContributorBrisbane singer Emma Louise has a sleepy, caramel-tinged coo of a voice that she pours languidly over tracks built from wispy, gently smudged electronics and softly lit piano. The sky-blue, slightly medicated vibe will be manna for Beth Orton fans, and "Boy" pipes itself in coolly like a heavy-rotation video from late-90s VH1. Check out her full-length, <i>Vs Head Vs Heart</i>, to bask in an album full of these plaintive, gorgeous sounds. more »
By Jayson Greene, Managing EditorKate Bush is so remote a cultural presence that it can be hard to imagine her doing things like, say, sitting down to watch the UK version of "The Voice" and getting outraged when her… more »
By eMusic Editorial Staff, eMusic ContributorThe prolific Portland, Oregon-based Matthew Cooper has recorded six full-length records of blooming, glacially moving post-rock as Eluvium; Nightmare Ending, his seventh, might be his grandest and possibly his best. This long-worked-on double album condenses all of his strengths as a musician and inflates them; try "Don’t Get Any Closer," today's Daily Download, to get a sense of his music's enormous, alpine scope: This is music spanning endless vistas, footage of rainforests shot from helicopters. more »
By Anna Bond, eMusic ContributorThe Psychic Paramount are currently halfway through a month-plus-long US tour, and you should go see them. Why? Because this Brooklyn-based instrumental metal trio are impressively heavy and mercilessly loud, but also creative, accomplished players and… more »
By Anna Bond, eMusic ContributorPortland, Oregon’s Tender Loving Empire is a record label featuring the likes of Typhoon, Y La Bamba, Radiation City, and Loch Lomond, but also - in true Portlandia-gone-right fashion - it’s also a silk-screening studio… more »
By Anna Bond, eMusic ContributorWe don’t have the space here for a complete history of Olympia, Washington’s legendary K Records, founded thirty years ago by Calvin Johnson (of Beat Happening, The Halo Benders, Dub Narcotic Sound System, et al.)… more »
By Kameil Sattar, eMusic Contributor It’s Monday morning the stereo is on and the Full Time Hobbyists are a busy lot, working in a large open plan office, near Edgeware Road, London. Forthcoming from these enthusiasts are projects from The… more »
