So, I’ve been using eMusic for about a month now. As it’s turned out, I like it a lot. Although my expectation was that I’d use it primarily to get stray cuts (singles, comps, EPs) by bands I already know, I’ve ended up doing a fair amount of random browsing, picking up a lot of music by bands I’d never heard of. Which is what I really like about it — I’ve found some pretty good new music, and because I poke around and sample so randomly, the music I’ve downloaded has been pretty diverse. Right now, the new music playlist on my MP3 player has shoegaze, britpop, indie rock, twee pop, Swedish indie pop, and power pop on it. In the past it usually just had one or two genres in it, whatever I happened to be into the last time I went music shopping.
Their coverage is pretty good, too, to the point that I find myself getting unfairly annoyed when they don’t have some obscure indie recording that I’m interested in (for example, it’s pretty unfair to expect them to have the new EP by local band Shuteye Unison, which I was trying to find after I saw them open for Asobi Seksu last week).
So yeah, eMusic is pretty cool.
