eMusic Archives: October 2009
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James Joyce wrote that his weapons as an artist would be "silence, exile … more »
High Places, I Was Born…
In the Ozu film I Was Born, But... a young boy gets angry at what he perc… more »
Steven D. Levitt, SuperFreakon…
More unlikely numbers from the rogue economics super-sleuths As of this w… more »
Sarah Lee Guthrie's Kids M…
Sarah Lee Guthrie didn't grow up playing, writing or performing music… more »
Vandermark 5, Annular Gift…
With its precise balance of compositional rigor and improvisational fire,… more »
Chuck Prophet, ¡Let Free…
Roots-rocker Chuck Prophet has 10+ albums and Let Freedom Ring sticks to … more »
Dave Douglas, A Single Sky…
Trumpeter-composer Dave Douglas assays his first big-band outing with an … more »
Pink Martini, Splendor in the …
A cult success in the States but a bona fide mainstream hit in France, Ca… more »
The Mother Hips, Pacific Dust…
Their home state of California looms larger than ever on the Mother Hips… more »
Various, A Christmas Gift For …
Not since singing cowboy Gene Autry lassoed a batch of holiday songs did … more »
Dolly Parton, Dolly
Ardent Dolly Parton fans may be well aware of all the ground the iconic s… more »
Ultra Violent Lights, Here in …
Ultra Violent Lights write the kind of sweet-yet-discordant songs that we… more »
John Hodgman, More Information…
The world's most famous resident expert bestows more world knowledge … more »
Horse Feathers, Cascades 7…
Portland's Horse Feathers play a crushingly pretty brand of pastoral folk… more »
The Avett Brothers, I And Love…
For years, North Carolina's Avett Brothers were a scrappy, genre-scra… more »
John Hodgman, More Information…
The world's most famous resident expert bestows more world knowledge … more »
Diamond District, In the Ruff…
In a year that's seen no shortage of attempts to revive the golden er… more »
Junk Culture, West Coast…
Deepak Mantena is Junk Culture, another ADHD artist on the sample-plunder… more »
Texas Guitar
Postwar, electric blues guitar in Texas all derives from T-Bone Walker, s… more »
Coltrane in the 1950s: Late Bl…
In May 1956, when Sonny Rollins and guest John Coltrane locked horns on t… more »
Coltrane in the 1950s: Late Bl…
In May 1956, when Sonny Rollins and guest John Coltrane locked horns on t… more »
Marin Alsop, ADAMS, J.: Nixon …
Composer John Adams, librettist Alice Goodman and director Peter Sellers … more »