Congrats to eMusic for hitting the 100 million download mark. They also now have a catalog that’s 2 million songs strong.
LMM has been pleased with the emusic subscription, as we continue to discover great music every month….and it’s all independent music, downloadable as MP3s, at a reasonable monthly subscription rate. Seemed a like a winning strategy when I originally heard about it, but it’s nice to see it’s still going relatively strong!
In honor of the occasion, I thought I’d take a look at all the downloads I’ve nabbed over the last several months(?). These are all solid picks, but I’ve highlighted a few for extra special attention:
- 120 Days (dark, indie electro from across the pond)
- Augustus Pablo
- Booka Shade (great, EDM that makes me groove)
- Broken Social Scene (what can I say, they had me at Lollapalooza)
- Calexico (ditto)
- Carey Ott
- Centro-Matic
- Diblo Dibala
- Glenn Brown and King Tubby (DUB-nasty!)
- Isaac Hayes
- John Brown’s Body (my long-time reggae favs from Ithaca)
- Johnny Cash
- Lotus
- Of Montreal (love the psychedelic weirdness)
- Ratatat (fav new instrumental indie crew)
- Ray Charles
- Secret Machines
- Supersuckers
- The Benevento-Russo Duo (let’s stop with the jamband label and just say these two rock…punk-jazz!)
- The Congos (great dub/reggae find!)
- The Disco Biscuits
- The New Deal (new addition to eMusic – live and groovin from Canadia)
- The Raconteurs (slightly over-hyped, but hard to not love a J. White side-project)
- The Stills
- The Whigs (these guys RAWK!)
- The White Stripes (Jack White, again, rocks)
- Thievery Corporation (see above DUB-Nasty reference and update for 2006)
- Tortoise (recent find on eMusic and very happy about adding to my “post-rock” collection)
- Umphrey’s McGee
- Various Artists
- Yo La Tengo (a bit of everything with these guys; not sure what it IS but I dig it)
- Zero 7
I could have commented on everything, but that might have to wait for an update. Cheers to emusic for offering an indie biz model that works. I would love to see other labels open up their catalogs to emusic, so here’s hoping they take notice. If anything, maybe the Majors will start to see that the DRM battle is basically over and they’ll need to start offering MP3s to us consumers so they can work on our iPods, computers, Zunes, or other players. Maybe then I’ll start diggin into their archives and spending some real money.
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