I signed up last year for an eMusic subscription. Actually, it was through a promotion I found in Paste Magazine…something like 50 free tracks as a test of the service. One year later and I have downloaded music from 76 artists, nearing 800 individual tracks. I don’t think I have ever consumed so much music, not even during my angst ridden teen years. The result?
- In addition to the rest of my music collection, I now have 3429 track representing 13.54 GB of music in iTunes
- I am much more aware of newer music trends across an array of genres
- Sometimes I find myself consuming to consume…mostly due to eMusic’s subscription model and my desire to get what I paid for
- I had the realization that I really dig DRM free music
- I wish that Last.FM worked with eMusic because the former is a much better tool for getting music recommendations than the latter
Here is the list of artists and albums I have become acquainted with over the past year (if we ever share a wifi connection, give these things a listen):
A Girl Named Eddy – A Girl Named Eddy
Andrew Bird – Listen – Armchair Apocrypha
Archer Prewitt – Archer Prewitt Live at Schubas 08/14/2004
Bad Religion – Suffer
Badly Drawn Boy – Hour of Bewilderbeast
Bebel Gilberto – Bebel Gilberto
Belle and Sebastian – The Life Pursuit
Big Ass Truck – Who Let You In Here?
Bob Marley and the Wailers – Capital Records Rehearsal 1973
Broken Social Scene – Broken Social Scene
Broken Social Scene – Live at Radio Aligre FM in Paris
Califone – Roots & Crowns
Camera Obscura – Let’s Get Out of This Country
Cat Power – The Greatest
Charles Mingus – Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus
Cold Play – Brothers and Sisters
Colin Hay – Man @ Work
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Chronicle Volume One
Damien Jurado – On My Way To Absence
Dogs Die In Hot Cars – Please Describe Yourself
Eels – Blinking Lights And Other Revelations
Field Music – Tones Of Town
Gomez – How We Operate
Half-Handed Cloud – Thy Is A Word And Feet Need Lamps
Iron And Wine / Calexico – In The Reins
Ivy – Guestroom
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros – Global A Go-Go
John Coltrane – Lush Life (Remastered)
John Coltrane – Fearless Leader
Johnny Cash – The Complete Sun Singles, vol. 1
Josh Ritter – The Animal Years
Marian McPartland / Elvis Costello – Piano Jazz
Mates Of State – Team Boo
Mike Doughty – Haughty Melodic
Miles Davis Quintet – Relaxin’ With The Miles Davis Quintet (Remastered)
Moby – Hotel
Modern Skirts – Catalogue of Generous Men
Modest Mouse – The Fruit That Ate Itself
Moonbabies – Moonbabies At The Ballroom
My Morning Jacket – The Tennessee Fire
Nancy Sinatra – Boots
Neko Case – Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
Neko Case – Blacklisted
Neutral Milk Hotel – In The Aeroplane, Over The Sea
Ornette Coleman – The Music Of Ornette Coleman: Something Else!!!
Panda Bear – Person Pitch
Patty Griffin – 1000 Kisses
Robbie Fulks – Georgia Hard
Ryan Adams – Heartbreaker
Sergio Mendes – Timeless
Spoon – Gimme Fiction
Spoon – Telephono/Soft Effects
Spoon – Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Spoon – Sister Jack
Stephen Malkmus – Face The Truth
Sufjan Stevens – Illinoise
Sufjan Stevens – Greetings From Michigan: The Great Lakes State
Sufjan Stevens – Songs For Christmas
Sun Kil Moon – Tiny Cities
The Broken West – I Can’t Go On I’ll Go On
The Chameleons – Live at The Academy Vol. 2
The Clientele – Strange Geometry
The Decemberists – Picaresque
The Kinks – Come Dancing With The Kinks
The Mountain Goats – The sunset Tree
The New Pornographers – Twin Cinema
The Pixies – Surfer Rosa / Come On Pilgrim
The Raconteurs – Broken Boy Soldiers
The Rakes – Ten New Messages
The Twilight Singers – She Loves You
The White Stripes – White Blood Cells
The White Stripes – Get Behind Me Satan
The White Stripes – Elephant
Thelonious Monk – Riverside Profiles
Thievery Corporation – The Mirror Conspiracy
TV On The Radio – Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
Ursula 1000 – Kinda’ Kinky
Dressed In Black: A Tribute To Johnny Cash
The Late Great Daniel Johnston: Discovered Covered (Disc 1 : The Covers)
Independent Music Awards Winners 2007
Monterey International Pop Festival
Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland Soundtrack
Voxtrot – Raised By Wolves EP
Voxtrot – Your Biggest Fan
Voxtrot – Mothers, Sisters, Daughters & Wives
Yo La Tengo – I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass
Zuco 103 – Tales Of High Fever
