By J. Edward Keyes, Editor-in-ChiefThe biggest incentive to get up early and wait in line on Record Store Day -- besides the satisfaction of supporting your local record retailer -- is the spate of limited edition pressings labels ship… more »
By Mikael Wood, eMusic ContributorAndrew Bird first got notice playing violin with the Squirrel Nut Zippers, but over the last decade he's developed his own following with a series of acclaimed solo albums on which he sings, bows and… more »
By Jayson Greene, Managing EditorAfter the listening session for Watch The Throne, Jay-Z stood up and revealed to the assembled crowd that he and Kanye had recorded, and scrapped, an earlier version of their much-hyped, long-rumored collaborative rap album.… more »
By Jayson Greene, Managing EditorAfter the listening session for Watch The Throne, Jay-Z stood up and revealed to the assembled crowd that he and Kanye had recorded, and scrapped, an earlier version of their much-hyped, long-rumored collaborative rap album.… more »
By Jayson Greene, Managing EditorAfter the listening session for Watch The Throne, Jay-Z stood up and revealed to the assembled crowd that he and Kanye had recorded, and scrapped, an earlier version of their much-hyped, long-rumored collaborative rap album.… more »
By eMusic Editorial Staff, eMusic ContributorIt's one of popular music's stranger mysteries that often the author of a song isn't the person best suited to deliver it. The caliber of the writer isn't the issue: One only needed to watch… more »
By Hua Hsu, eMusic ContributorThis November, the hip-hop community lost two towering figures of the '90s: Ol 'Dirty Bastard and Mac Dre. Ever since ODB first stepped out with Staten Island's Wu-Tang Clan in 1993, the gifted, combustible rapper… more »
By Ann Powers, eMusic Contributor"If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time," wrote that magic cookie nibbler Marcel Proust. His advice may not… more »
