eMusic Archives: November 2011
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Daptone Radio
Alternative / Punk | Blues Bobby Bland, Ruby Andrews, Various Artists, Ella Washington, Barbara Lynn
A Musical History of Muscle Sh…
You've seen how the Muscle Shoals ghost reacted to the music of School of… more »
Various Artists, Fifteen Years…
Dance compilations are less essential than they once were, so it takes a … more »
DJ /rupture: A Post-Digital Gu…
No disc jockey transports me back more reliably to the free-form radio tr… more »
David Lang & Andrew Zolin…
This is the first non-soundtrack album by post-minimalist Lang since the … more »
Discover: 50 Holiday Favorites
Believe it or not, there's more to holiday music than department store dr… more »
Dave Douglas, GPS, Vol 2: Oran…
It may not seem kind to refer to a man still in his 40s as an "elder stat… more »
Alan Wilkinson, Practice…
Practice is Alan Wilkinson's State of the Union saxophone précis. It take… more »
The South Trio, Elegy for a Ra…
Whenever a piano trio employs electronic effects on a recording, as The S… more »
Swod, Drei
The nebulous zone between classical and electronic music seems to be more… more »
Mr. Oizo, Stade 2
There's always been more to Mr Oizo than "Flat Eric," though that track's… more »
eMusic Q&A: Jeanne Darst
Jeanne Darst incriminates herself in all sorts of ways in her memoir, Fic… more »
eMusic Q&A: Dave Douglas
The career of jazz composer and trumpeter Dave Douglas has been prolific … more »
RIP Jazz Great Paul Motian, 19…
The jazz world mourned a great loss on Nov. 22, when legendary drummer Pa… more »
Who Is…Oneohtrix Point N…
Despite his stoner demeanor, Oneohtrix Point Never's Daniel Lopatin is as… more »
Rihanna, Talk That Talk …
In the '50s, Elvis and Sinatra spit out multiple albums a year; it was a … more »
David S. Ware, Organica (Solo …
A few decades can make a world of difference in how a jazz musician's pla… more »
The Rolling Stones, Some Girls…
Some Girls, considered by some the last great Rolling Stones album, is no… more »
John Lithgow, Drama
A meditation on theater as a way of life, told by someone fully steeped i… more »
Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in th…
How history confounds and contains us all The term "historical fiction" c… more »
Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously…
Funneling DeGeneres directly into a listener's head Regardless of a viewe… more »
Eddy Current Suppression Ring,…
Culled from across their seven-year lifespan, So Many Things offers a non… more »
Helen Oyeyemi, Mr. Fox…
One of the more delightfully unconventional narratives in recent memory H… more »
Pete Hamill, Tabloid City…
A thoroughly modern noir in both theme and tone If, in noir, atmosphere c… more »
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By Jess Sauer, eMusic Contributor
The idea that diverse languages are a form of divine punishment, serving only to separate us, is a popular one in numerous mythologies and religious traditions. In Genesis, humanity is unified by a common tongue… more »
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