eMusic Archives: October 2011
Patrick DeWitt, The Sisters Br…
"I do not regret that the man is dead, but I wish I had kept better hold … more »
Erin Morgenstern, The Night Ci…
An old-world circus that truly transports What kind of circus is open onl… more »
George Pelecanos, The Cut…
A post-modern detective novels set in D.C.'s tumultuous underworld Spero … more »
eMusic Q&A: Van Dyke Park…
Van Dyke Parks is a man of two identities. To the mainstream, he's a supp… more »
Hannah Pittard, The Fates Will…
A Eugenides-esque debut charting suburbia and prolonged adolescences Hann… more »
Ron Suskind, Confidence Men…
A fly-on-the-wall look at Obama's first two years The title of Pulitzer-w… more »
Mr. Mellifluous: A Listener…
Most jazz fans recognize Benny Golson's tunes, even if they don't know wh… more »
The Smile Sessions: The Story …
Over the course of innumerable sessions in 1966 and 1967, the Beach Boys … more »
Ready Player One Radio
'80s | Alternative / Punk Twisted Sister, Greg Kihn, Bon Jovi, Tommy Tutone, Pat Benatar
Six Degrees of Tom Waits…
It used to be easier to pretend that an album was its own perfectly self-… more »
Elissa Schappell, Blueprints f…
Stories that dissect the familiar tropes of womanhood The title of Elissa… more »
Jane Lynch, Happy Accidents…
It is impossible not to root for her "Like any good, closeted young lesbi… more »
Roger Ebert, Life Itself…
The beloved critic is more vocal than ever For decades, Roger Ebert has b… more »
Chad Harbach, The Art of Field…
A campus novel that spends more time in the locker room than the library … more »
Charles Frazier, Nightwoods…
Frazier's smooth, elegiac style is at its finest Charles Frazier's third … more »
Sebastian Barry, On Canaan…
A ghost-ridden autobiography of an Irish woman's tumultuous life Lilly Be… more »
Grigorij Zhyslin, Penderecki: …
Antoni Wit's Naxos Penderecki series is the most important current, long-… more »
Bill Frisell, All We Are Sayin…
Frisell releases records at such a rapid fire clip that it's necessary to… more »
30 Shocking Albums
Alternative / Punk | Death Metal Slayer, Slayer, Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan, Judas Priest
The Scariest Characters of 201…
It's been a big year for monsters. While vampires continued to dominate p… more »
Discover: 14 Essential Tom Wai…
It's been seven years since Tom Waits last graced us with that growl, del… more »
30 Shocking Albums
Now that Halloween's over, we decided to shift the conversation away from… more »
Wax Idols, No Future
Like fellow Oakland band Hunx and His Punx, Wax Idols belong to a next-wa… more »