New This Week: Autre Ne Veut, Sally Shapiro, Emmylou Harris & More!
Autre Ne Veut, Anxiety: A new one from Arthur Ashin aka Autre Ne Veut. eMusic’s Andrew Parks says: So while Anxiety features more than its fair share of Timbaland-vis-Timberlake tropes and unironic Top...
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25 Must-See Bands at SXSW 2013
Do we even need the preamble? You know what next week is and, like any right-thinking person, you’ve probably put off working out a schedule until the very last second. So as you start to hammer out...
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Discover: Don Giovanni Records
[Introduce yourself to Don Giovanni's roster with a free 11-track sampler, featuring Screaming Females, Waxahatchee, Shellshag and more.] A handful of the most impressive labels in the history of...
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Discover: Finders Keepers
An enthusiasm for sounds lost, unknown, ignored or brain-meltingly weird is the principle behind Finders Keepers, the reissue label Andy Votel founded in 2005 with Doug Shipton. A mainstay of...
View ArticleRe-Documenting the Blues
Austrian collector Johnny Parth launched Document Records in 1986 in order to reissue the complete works of early 20th-century American roots musicians, mostly blues artists. Document’s modus operandi...
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Discover: Vampisoul
For Vampisoul founder Iñigo Pastor, it all began as a fanzine that mutated into a label with global aspirations. At age 15, Pastor began publishing La Herencia de los Munster (The Legend of the...
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A Beginner’s Guide to Donald Byrd
“I knew damn near everybody,” the late trumpeter and bandleader Donald Byrd joked during a 1987 Pacifica Radio interview, reeling off names like Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Miles...
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Discover: Burger Records
Hear the sound of Burger Records while you read: Download our free 20-track sampler here, featuring tracks from White Fang, The Go, Jaill and more. Before you even got inside the sprawling, ramshackle...
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My Life In Philly Soul
I was born into the Sound of Philadelphia family in 1974. My father, Larry Gold, was a cellist in TSOP’s house band, MFSB (the letters stand for Mother Father Sister Brother, or Motherfucker Son of a...
View ArticleESP-Disk’: International Avant-Garde
ESP-Disk’ might be the most revered and reviled of historically important jazz labels: revered for the free/avant classics it issued; reviled for its business practices. The leader of one mid-1960s ESP...
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Beards: A Guide
In 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...
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A Skeptic’s Guide to ZZ Top
Is it the gimmicky, sheepskin-covered guitars? The movie appearances? The beards? Why haven’t contemporary rock audiences, with their seemingly insatiable craving for anything resembling “authentic”...
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Summer Soundtrack: EMI’s Balearic Compilations
Like Krautrock and Northern Soul, Balearic Beat is a genre not recognized by those who created it. And, like the aforementioned musical categories, it was the Brits who bestowed this name on the sound...
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Free eMusic Samplers
It’s easy to get stuck in a musical rut. The amount of new music that’s released, at this point, on a daily basis can feel overwhelming, and the deluge can cause you to run panicked to old favorites...
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Label Profile: Northern Spy
[Get a taste of Northern Spy's catalog with this free 16-track sampler — Ed.] Northern Spy Records is the baby of co-owners Tom Abbs and Adam Downey, birthed after both left their jobs at the legendary...
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Discover: The Dungeon Family
Before there was a family, there was the Dungeon — otherwise known as Rico Wade’s mom’s basement. It was in the magically stank Dungeon — described by Cee-Lo as “a crawl space with a bench that held a...
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Discover: Paradise of Bachelors
In April 1855, Harper’s New Monthly Magazine published a curious short story by Herman Melville titled “The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids.” It’s one of his more experimental pieces, a...
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Discover: Cascine
[Dive into Cascine's catalog with this free sampler, featuring tracks from Keep Shelly in Athens, Shine 2009, Selebrities and more. — Ed.] Originally founded in 2010 as an arm of Service, the now...
View ArticleDiscover: Mexican Summer
[In celebration of Mexican Summer's fifth anniversary, eMusic is proud to offer a free Mexican Summer sampler, featuring tracks from Autre Ne Veut, the Fresh & Onlys, and more.] Though they...
View ArticleThe Strange And Powerful World of Roky Erickson
“Sing this song all together! Tap your toe and see what happens!” That’s Roky Erickson admonishing his audience halfway through a live performance of “Before in the Beginning.” The year is 1977, and...
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