eMusic Archives: January 2009
From the Vaults: The Volcano S…
When a remarkable band breaks up at its peak, its fans rarely look to the… more »
Who Is … Little Boots
"If you listen to my pop, you can tell it comes from a slightly weird pla… more »
Behold the Shoes: A Brief Hist…
No, it's not a great name: "shoegazing." Very few artists who've actually… more »
Lee “Scratch” Perr…
Legends come no more legendary Lee "Scratch" Perry. He is quite probably … more »
Telefon Tel Aviv, Immolate You…
The Chicago-based, New Orleans-originated Telefon Tel Aviv are respected,… more »
The Phantom Band, Checkmate Sa…
In "The Whole Is On My Side," the final song on Glasgow fivesom… more »
Pt. 2: Iran
Can you explain John Dwyer's (Pink & Brown, Coachwhips) guest appeara… more »
2008 Innovators: Blu
When Johnson Barnes was growing up in Southern California, he could have … more »
Eddie Daniels, A Duet of One…
The clarinet has made a fairly significant return to jazz in the last dec… more »
A User's Guide to Anticon
For many, the anxiety of influence often results in something like imitat… more »
dälek, Gutter Tactics…
As audacious agit-prop moves go, metal-gazing Newark undie-hop duo D… more »
Anne Akiko Meyers & Akira…
A typically interesting album from violinist Anne Akiko Meyers — wh… more »
Lithops, Ye Viols!
Jan St. Werner's interests when working solo as Lithops range from pl… more »
Janice Y. K. Lee, The Piano Te…
A vivid, soaring debut that shows plainly how profoundly war can break a … more »
Andrew McKenna Lee, Gravity an…
Classical guitar never reaches too far beyond its devoted niche audience … more »
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez (Mars Vol…
With all the elements figuring in Mars Volta's cut-up cornucopia … more »
Ran Blake, Driftwoods
Though he has often worked in duets, with small groups, and (less often) … more »
Loney, Dear, Dear John…
Loney Dear, aka Emil Svanängen, has a few overlapping attributes wit… more »
Cara Dillon, Hill of Thieves…
Cara Dillon's Hill of Thieves, the first album on her own label, is a… more »
Inside the Cathedral of Guilla…
When I first heard the music of the early Renaissance composer Guillaume … more »
Muhal Richard Abrams Updates t…
Muhal Richard Abrams is likely best known as a driving force behind the h… more »
Outre Limits (And Then some)
The Concept Album, enshrined in such epic meisterworks as Tommy and The W… more »