6.27.2011

Bright Eyes’ latest album, The People’s Key, plays like some strange transmission beamed from deep space. In other words, it’s nothing like its tethered-to-earth 2007 predecessor, Cassadaga.“I think...

“Come on, boys!” Karin Bergquist shouted, her three dogs running through the snowy fields beyond the fence of the Ohio farm where she lives with husband/Over the Rhine bandmate Linford Detweiler....

“Oh no! I left it up there.”Backstage at Atlanta’s Variety Playhouse, Dawes has just wrapped up their set—their seventh in three days—when frontman Taylor Goldsmith, pulling up a chair to join his...

Remember when Pepsi and Coke cans still had a classic design? It wasn’t all that long ago. There was a time when folks in the marketing departments of certain brands didn’t spend the greatest chunk of...

Joe Allen, up on West 46th Street, is as New York City as it gets. A visitor descends out of the cold rain down a little stairway and enters Manhattan’s inside game. A finely dressed gent at a front...

A New Orleans documentarian talks to the city’s new storyteller David Simon is cranky. Not rude, mind you. Not even ungracious. Just spent and exhausted and cranky. For the first few questions, he...

When Nick Purdy, Tim Regan-Porter and I launched Paste magazine in July of 2002, one of our goals was to enable you to listen to the music we covered, instead of just imagining what it sounded like....

Much literary celebrity came to a 29-year-old North Carolina writer named Edward Reynolds Price in the wake of the auspicious first sentence of his first novel, A Long and Happy Life.Here’s that...

Back in February, The White Stripes officially called it quits. Unlike with Jay-Z, this retirement seems legit. But don’t fret, Stripeheads. If there’s one thing frontman Jack White loves, it’s a good...

When Cults first received recognition for their summer anthem “Go Outside” last year, it created a relentless hype around them and painted them as an easygoing, carefree duo with an irresistible indie...

“Some girls are bright as the morning, some girls are blessed with a dark turn of mind”If you’re an artist who plays music that sounds as if could have been written a century ago, what difference does...

I love when a big deal band comes to town, sporting a local opener clearly breast-fed on their landmark albums. One example: indie-experimentalists Dirty Projectors, who turned heads at a recent...

Drinking champagne out of Mark Ronson’s Grammy Award may be the best move that the Black Lips have ever made. In addition to continuing their badass reputation, it sparked a collaboration between the...

Director: Mike MillsWriter: Mike MillsStars: Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, Mélanie LaurentStudio: Focus FeaturesOliver wanted to continue the conversation. So he did, well after Hal had died....

Director: Paul FeigWriters: Kristen Wiig, Annie MumoloStars: Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Rose ByrneStudio: Universal Success as a comedy AND a movie Kristen Wiig is brilliant. This remains true...

Director: Nathan ChristCinematographer: Robert L. GarzaStars: Black Joe Lewis, Bill Baird, Ghostland Observatory, Cari PalazzoloStudio/Running Time: Reversal Films, 90 mins. Austin, Texas, shamelessly...

(Another night in the rain-soaked city. Smoke fills the bar on 3rd street as the band wraps up its introductory number. One man sits in the audience, draped in a trenchcoat, drink in hand. It’s Sinan...

I’ve never been a particularly good dancer. I like dancing—well, whatever approximation of it exists on the kaleidoscopic floor of an electro synthpop show or at hipster house parties, anyway—but try...

“Johanna who?” Many Canadians scratched their heads on receiving word that The Sentimentalists, by Johanna Skibsrud, had won their country’s prestigious Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2010. It wasn’t only...

The portrait of a zombie as a young man One night, after watching an episode of Frank Darabont’s Walking Dead, I dreamt that my daughter had been bitten. Her infection was only partial—and included a...

It was with a heavy heart that I loaded this screener DVD into my player — we’re down to the last four episodes of Friday Night Lights, and I’m down to my very last DVD.Hold me. You know we’re in for...

Dawes stopped by the Paste offices last month to perform the new album Nothing Is Wrong live in its entirety. Check out one track from the performance, “The Way You...

Directed by Aaron Stewart-Ahn, The Decemberists’ video for “This Is Why We Fight” heads into Lord of the Flies territory in a dystopian future. For more children getting thrown into battle, check out...

Directed by Tim Nakashi, Rye Rye’s latest video, for “Never Will Be Mine” features guest vocals—and guest hippie dancing—from Swedish dance-pop artist...

True Blood is part fantasy and part melodrama, but it’s the show’s small-town Louisiana characters which have kept it engaging through three seasons, using vampires, werewolves and other creatures of...