eMusic Archives: July 2011
2011′s Overlooked Gems
Every year, a mountain of records is unleashed on an unsuspecting public.… more »
Hearts On Fire: The Underbelly…
Alt-Country | Country / Folk Nina Simone, Howard Tate, Clarence Reid, Judee Sill, Betty Padgett
No Such Thing As a Guilty Plea…
Hip-Hop | Pop Beyoncé, Kelly Clarkson, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, R. Kelly
Broadway Baby
Film Soundtracks | Soundtracks / Other Original Broadway Cast, Various Artists, Bernadette Peters, Various, Various Artists
Eric Alexander, Don’t Fo…
Tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander is to hard bop what James Lee Burke (of … more »
Ruth Rendell, Some Lie and Som…
It's hard to decide what's more fun in Some Lie and Some Die, Ruth Rendel… more »
Tana French, The Likeness…
Dublin is one of the great literary cities, so it is surprising that rela… more »
Henning Mankell, The Troubled …
For those of us who have followed Kurt Wallander, Sweden's most morosely … more »
Alexander McCall Smith, The No…
McCall Smith's novels have become something of a cottage industry (there … more »
Pictureplane, Thee Physical…
Pictureplane's Travis Edgy hails from Colorado, where a dubstep scene has… more »
Kate & Anna McGarrigle, T…
It's not often that bonus material provides the ideal intro to an artist'… more »
International Mysteries
High summer. The best time of year for traveling to foreign lands —… more »
The Magnetic Fields, Distortio…
Stephin Merritt seems to function best within self-imposed confines, whet… more »
Percussion Group Cincinnati, J…
John Cage's percussion works are hard to pull off. First, you have the no… more »
Eternal Tapestry, Beyond the 4…
This Portland, Oregon, rock trio has been soundtracking imaginary Jodorow… more »
The Men, Leave Home
In the spirit of disorder, Brooklyn's The Men (not the Le Tigre offshoot … more »
Deniz Kurtel, Music Watching O…
The past couple years have seen a remarkable surge of women coming into p… more »
(etre), Inferno From My Occult…
It requires a bent mind in a weird mood to become simpatico for these sou… more »
Purling Hiss, Lounge Lizards…
If you're a devotee of New Choogle (contemporary blues-rock a la Endless … more »
Sallie Ford and the Sound Outs…
In "I Swear," the opening track of Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside's Di… more »
Bill Carrothers, Excelsior…
Carrothers is that rarest of creatures — a rural jazz artist. He th… more »
Grouper, AIA: Alien Observer…
If you blinked, you missed the vinyl version (in runs of 1,000 copies) of… more »
No Joy, Ghost Blonde
This Montreal quartet's sumptuously shrill wall-of-noise debut came out t… more »
Killer Mike, Pl3dge
Though Killer Mike got his break as a tough-guy OutKast guest, he has inc… more »