Engine Room Records has released the third volume in their series of indie bands covering guilty pleasure tunes, and this time they're all taking on hair metal classics. How does it fare? Very, very well.
Halloween is over (if you missed the Halloween mixes go here) , and the holiday season (is it too early for Christmas mixes?) is revving up. Isn't it crazy that 2011 is almost over? In addition to the holiday season, this is the time of year when 'best of' lists; see IRC's Best Songs of [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe

Alternative folk artists Kara Suzanne headlines the Lounge at Gramercy Theatre this Thursday July 28th ( tickets ). The intimate show will also feature sets from The Prigs, Steve Lewis, Putnam Murdoch & My Cousin, The Emperor. We always love exposing you to new music and we think that this show will be an excellent chance for you to listen to something other than the same Spotify playlist over and over. Check out a few songs below and email us <a...
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This week we'd like to turn your attention to Brooklyn's My Cousin, The Emperor. They'll be opening for Kara Suzanne at Gramercy Theatre July 28th, and now's the perfect time to get them on your radar. Check out their offerings, The Subway EPs Vol. I-II, A Long Way From Home, and a number great of [...]
FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD of "NOTHING LEFT FOR US TO FIND" http://mycousintheemperor.band camp.com/My Cousin, The Emperor have returned to NYC after a tour down to SXSW and back with Caitlin Cary's (Whiskeytown) THE SMALL PONDS. They made plenty of fans on the road, with Knoxville's Metro Pulse declaring, "My Cousin, The Emperor comes off like a shiny 21st-century update of The Basement Tapes." The
Wow, what a bang-a-lang week for new releases! For reals; it's almost difficult to know where to start. This week's new releases is like a never-ending gravy train of kick-ass music from a spectacular line-up of artists. And just in time as the first signs of spring begin to spread across the northern hemisphere. The [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
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Alt-country Brooklynites MY COUSIN, THE EMPEROR release their single disc, double EP entitled, THE SUBWAY EPs on March 29, 2011. Next week, they begin a string of shows with Caitlin Cary and Matt Douglas as THE SMALL PONDS. The two groups will head down to Austin, TX for SXSW and back, hitting Raleigh, Charlotte, Asheville, Knoxville, Little Rock and Houston before turning around to come back through Atlanta, with more dates to be added. My Cousin, The Emperor's SUBWAY EPs are separated into two volumes; Volume I being the acoustic PROSPECT PARK WEST [...]

DOWNLOAD : My Cousin The Emperor - "Nothing Left for Us to Find" Alt-country Brooklynites My Cousin, The Emperor release their single disc, double EP entitled, THE SUBWAY EPs on March 29, 2011. Next week, they begin a string of shows with Caitlin Cary and Matt Douglas as The Small Ponds. The two groups will head down to Austin, TX for SXSW and back, hitting Raleigh, Charlotte, Asheville, Knoxville, Little Rock and Houston before turning around to come back through Atlanta, with more dates to be [...]
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Hammer No More the Fingers : "Steam" [mp3] from Black Shark (out April 11th) search for more Hammer No More the Fingers posts at Largehearted Boy The Idle Hands : [...]

DOWNLOAD: My Cousin, The Emperor - Live Acoustic Set @ Rockwood Music Hall, Jan. 5, 2010 DOWNLOAD: My Cousin, The Emperor - "Montevideo" Brooklyn-based Americana band, My Cousin, The Emperor is playing WNYC's Battle of the Boroughs this Friday at The Greene Space, 44 Charlton Street (on the corner of Charlton and Varick). My Cousin, The Emperor is the latest project of North Carolina-to-Brooklyn transplant singer/songwriter Jason Reischel. Jason has joined forces with guitarist Terry Quire, bassist Chris Gogan and drummer [...]

Half the country music we call country music today doesn't quite fit. The sentiment is often "throw an alt- on that country and let it lie." Sure, there may be a twang or a heartbroken lyric here and there, but where's the desolation, the loneliness, and most importantly, the barn-stomping, string breaking fury? Seems like all that pent up country music has been hiding in a band from, of all unlikely places, Brooklyn. The band's called My Cousin, the Emperor ; the album is A Long Way From Home [...]
Auteur de 2 albums solo passés plutôt inaperçu, Jason Reischel aura peut-être plus de chance avec son groupe récemment formé, My Cousin, The Emperor - même si avec un nom pareil c'est pas gagné d'avance. Ce songwriter originaire de Caroline du Nord (encore un!) et exilé à Brooklyn parle de "country R&B" pour définir sa musique. C'est en effet assez approprié à l'esprit de ces morceaux évoluant

My Cousin, The Emperor is the latest project of North Carolina-to-Brooklyn transplant singer/songwriter Jason Reischel. In My Cousin, The Emperor, Jason has joined forces with guitarist Terry Quire, bassist Chris Gogan and drummer Alex Wyatt and the band has their debut CD coming out on October 20th. This disc caught my ear right away as the band captures some musical styles that are atypical to indie alt-country. The disc starts with some 'Country R&B' tunes that are stylistically similar to work from Jools Holland and similar artists. From there, Jason Reischel takes the [...]