Kicking at the Boundaries of Metal
As they age, extreme metal merchants often inject various non-metallic styles into their songs in order to hasten their musical growth. Sometimes, as with Alcest and Jesu, they develop to the point...
View ArticleAll Things Electronic
Whether you prefer to wave your hands in the air like you just don’t care on the super-club dance floor or to drift into reverie while listening to headphones, electronic dance music’s infinite variety...
View ArticleFreshly Ripped Radio
Looking for the newest and best on eMusic? Look no further than Freshly Ripped Radio. Every week, our editorial team combs through the crates and pulls out the best of the best, all the better to help...
View ArticleThe Mixtape
This Month: Satanic Folk Songs The dark (but not explicitly Satanic) songs of Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen and Tom Waits inspired a wave of British ’80s martial folk bands, which incorporated elements of...
View ArticleFresh Jazz: Beneath the Underdog and Across the Spectrum
A selection of the standout tracks from the best new releases in jazz on eMusic. From the oldest school to the newest thing, torch songs to Cubop, this first edition takes an open-minded but...
View ArticleRock: Today and Yesterday
When radio was rock’s gatekeeper, before everything got hyphenated, sliced and diced by genre and sub-genre, there was always one mainstream station you could rely on to play the music you liked — most...
View ArticleThe Finest in New & Old Country
Sidle on up to the bar and have a few rounds with the finest in fresh-faced folk and oak-aged country tunes. Turnstyled and Junkpiled will soundtrack the tears in your beers as well as letting the good...
View ArticleBass, Beats & Bars
Hip-hop’s spectrum is broader than ever, with a scene in every city and a thousand ways to control a mic. Bass, Beats & Bars ties it all together — the hustler opulence of Rick Ross, the...
View ArticleGimme Indie Rock!
Calling all poseurs, dilettantes and part-time punks: Check your head and check your cred at the door. From Buzzcocks to Iceage, from dream-pop to chillwave, Gimme Indie Rock gives you the sickest...
View ArticleBop ’til you stop: Bebop, Hard Bop and Post Bop
Bebop is the fundamental vehicle by which the carbohydrates of modern jazz—harmony, melody and rhythm (starch, sugar and fiber) — are churned and burned into the fuel of life. Since it first emerged...
View ArticleClassical Music For A Modern World
Sure, we play Bach, Beethoven and Mozart — though we also dig the early music of Tallis, chance works by Cage, arias from Verdi and John Adams, as well as the composers on New Amsterdam records....
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