eMusic Archives: December 2007
Quartetto Cassoviae, Dvorak / …
Contained on this disc is a mini-history of the string quartet itself: an… more »
Young Guns of Britfolk
Through much of the 1980s, British folk was in a fairly moribund state. T… more »
Es, Sateenkaarisuudelma…
Es is the group name for Sami Sankpakkila, a Finnish psych-folk kingpin w… more »
Lovemusik: Kurt Weill and Lott…
The fourteen fertile and treacherous years of the Weimar Republic, which … more »
Les Amazones De Guinée,…
A 46-year West African institution that's endured as many lineup shif… more »
Monoton, Monotonprodukt 07 20y…
When Basic Channel and Pan Sonic turned techno upside down in the early … more »
Nellie McKay
"Oh," "um," "uh," "Jesus," "Lord," "Christ." These were the words most co… more »
Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild…
Jon Krakauer once again transforms tragedy into American myth. In 1990, C… more »
Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air…
The remarkably raw story of a tragic Mt. Everest climb. I remember buying… more »
Alan Tyler & The Lost Son…
Alan Tyler is as close as the UK alt country scene comes to boasting an a… more »
Crescendo-core
At its essence, post-rock can be defined by four universal rules. First, … more »
2007 Rewind: The Year in Dance
Many will undoubtedly look back on 2007 as the year that dance broke. Daf… more »
2007 Innovators Q&A: The …
A tiny, subtle diamond in a field of ten-foot neon exclamation points, Bo… more »
2007 Rewind: The Year in Reiss…
By now the narrative has been repeated so often it's hardened into place:… more »
2007 Innovators Q&A: Simo…
One of the most remarkable stories in the classical music world in 2007 —… more »
2007 Innovators Q&A: Gogo…
Eugene Hütz is the towering, bare-chested, outlawishly mustached ringmast… more »
Christian Scott
Still in his mid-twenties, Christian Scott has already taken his place in… more »
Overlooked Albums of 2007
For every National and Arcade Fire who manage to break the bonds of indie… more »
Heavy Tunes: Burial
If I'm writing about dubstep, then it's officially over as a trend. I don… more »
Sitar God: Ravi Shankar
My first Ravi Shankar concert took place outdoors in Portland, Oregon's C… more »
A User's Guide to Martin C…
You can't travel far into British folk music without bumping into Mar… more »
About the [Double] Album: Live…
It doesn't seem like 22 years ago that Leeds, England, foursome the W… more »