eMusic Archives: December 2011
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We Are Augustines, Rise Ye Sun…
In the summer of 2009, Billy McCarthy lost his brother James to suicide a… more »
eMusic Members’ Favorite…
We asked, you answered. And over the course of the next week, we'll be ro… more »
eMusic’s Best Albums of …
It was a year full of surprising breakouts and breathtaking discoveries, … more »
Sepalcure, Sepalcure
Sepalcure prove that reinvention counts as much as much as innovation in … more »
Cass McCombs, WIT’S END…
Make no mistake, WIT'S END is a profoundly depressing record, and if you … more »
Real Estate, Days
Real Estate sound unambitious to the point where it's actually kinda risk… more »
Laura Marling, A Creature I Do…
Four years ago, Laura Marling sang on the brutally twee debut album by Lo… more »
John Maus, We Must Become the …
If Ariel Pink was the godfather of chillwave, his CalArts pal John Maus m… more »
What Sophomore Jinx?
The sophomore jinx. It's a trope as old as rock criticism itself: Band ro… more »
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stage Wh…
As an actress, Charlotte Gainsbourg has remoulded herself with startling … more »
Ghostpoet, Peanut Butter Blues…
Perhaps the most self-effacing, machismo-free MC Britain has ever produce… more »
Why Dance Music is Bigger than…
In 2010, the unthinkable occurred. I was 35, and I had never been so exci… more »
City and Colour, Little Hell…
City & Colour, a side project of ex-Alexisonfire songwriter Dallas Green,… more »
Owiny Segoma Band, Owiny Segom…
Take five British musicians raised on soul and hip-hop to Kenya, team the… more »
Youth Lagoon, The Year of Hibe…
The debut EP by early-20-something Trevor Powers was a blithely complicat… more »
Nicolas Jaar, Space is Only No…
Nicolas Jaar is a full-time student at Brown, head of the up-and-coming C… more »
DJ Quik, The Book of David…
Consistency is usually a tough sell in hip-hop — DJ Quik's career h… more »
Vijay Iyer with Prasanna …
Pianist Vijay Iyer had a breakout year in 2009, with his trio album Histo… more »
Kendrick Lamar, Section.80…
Most of the time, a hip-hop record quick to indict the influence of pop c… more »
G-Side, The ONE…COHESIVE…
Shock-rappers Odd Future may have been the hip-hop rookies of the year, b… more »
2011: I Shall Be Released
May 23, 2011, was a small landmark for pop music. Lady Gaga had announced… more »
Iceage, New Brigade
If the Ramones had grown up under the influence of hardcore — and a… more »
Dave Douglas, GPS, Vol. 3: Bad…
In 2011, trumpeter Dave Douglas released three short albums (by modern st… more »
Aram Shelton’s Arrive, T…
A cool extension of the legacy of Eric Dolphy's Out to Lunch. The beautif… more »
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At eMusic, we take pride in being the place you hear about artists first. Whether it's through our eMusic Selects program - which brought you the first releases by Best Coast, Crystal Stilts, Strand of… more »
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