eMusic Archives: May 2011
Remembering Gil Scott-Heron
"You can go into Ginsberg and the Beat poets and Dylan, but Gil Scot… more »
Death Cab’s Chris Walla …
Chris Walla is best known as the guitarist for Death Cab for Cutie, but t… more »
Gorillaz, Gorillaz
The premise of the "virtual band" Gorillaz came to Albarn and h… more »
The Decemberists, The Crane Wi…
It seems quaint now, but in 2006, after the long-independent Decemberists… more »
Jukebox Jury: Analog Africa…
There are crate-diggers, and then there is Samy Ben Rajab. The compilatio… more »
Seapony, Go With Me
Telling someone they're so pretty you'll forgive them for just ab… more »
The Reatards, Teenage Hate / F…
Teenage Hate was first released in 1998, and was the first full-length re… more »
Various Artists – Tompki…
At first glance, this three-disc, 80-track collection seems dauntingly sp… more »
My Morning Jacket, Circuital…
On Circuital's pedal steel-laced fifth track "Outta My System,… more »
Dark Castle, Surrender to All …
Dark Castle's Surrender To All Life Beyond All Form may deliver the s… more »
Record Store Day Revisited
Still crying yourself to sleep over the OOPOA (out of print on arrival) s… more »
Kid Loco, Confessions of a Bel…
Jean-Yves Prieur, aka Kid Loco, is underappreciated amongst his trip-hop … more »
Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Coton…
American and European fans of African music often become that way via com… more »
My Morning Jacket, At Dawn …
Originally presented as part of a limited At Dawn pressing — 2,500 … more »
Submotion Orchestra, Finest Ho…
Leeds, the restive capital of the People's Republic of West Yorkshire… more »
Six Degrees of Joseph Conrad…
No book is a perfectly self-contained artifact. Books are more permeable … more »
Six Degrees of Lady Gaga…
It used to be easier to pretend that an album was its own perfectly self-… more »
Black Lips, Arabia Mountain…
"I've been looking in a new direction," Black Lips bassist … more »
Frank Turner, England Keep My …
When Frank Turner quit the U.K. hardcore band Million Dead in 2005 and la… more »
Frank Turner, England Keep My …
When Frank Turner quit the U.K. hardcore band Million Dead in 2005 and la… more »
Elias Krantz, Night Ice…
Despite garnering rave reviews in his native Sweden and fitting the same … more »
Ford & Lopatin, Channel P…
If Ford & Lopatin's bio is to be believed, Channel Pressure is a … more »
Cults, Cults
Cults aren't the first group to rise from anonymity to buzz-band stat… more »
Jean Grae, Jeanius
Talent has never been Jean Grae's problem. When she first emerged as What… more »