9.6.2011

Hometown: Reykjavik, IcelandMembers: Ragnar þórhallsson (acoustic guitar, vocals), Árni Guðjónsson (accordion, keys), Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir (acoustic guitar, vocals), Arnar Rósenkranz Hilmarsson...

Hometown: Bergen, NorwayAlbum: Program 91For Fans Of: Reel Big Fish, Less Than Jake, The Strokes There isn’t much of a ska scene in Norway, where the male-dominated black-metal genre reigns supreme....

Hometown: Lagos, Nigeria; London Album: Africa For AfricaFor Fans Of: Fela Kuti, Tony Allen, Antibalas Over the course of the past 30-plus years, Afrobeat musician Femi Kuti has fully emerged from a...

Dr. Patrick McGovern looks nothing like Harrison Ford. The 66-year-old Scientific Director of the Biomolecular Archaeology Laboratory for Cuisine, Fermented Beverages and Health at the University of...

Robin Hessman doesn’t have a quick and easy answer to your questions about what it was like living through the fall of the Soviet Union. “Whenever a Russian expresses any kind of nostalgia,” she...

I’ve been fortunate in my life to have the opportunity to travel fairly extensively. I had to get pages added to my previous passport as I visited every continent except Antarctica. With every new...

One of my problems is that I always want to blame things on the night. I want to cast aspersions on the evening in question, citing an unbalance somewhere as the reason for things not working out....

The only time I visited Korea, I was 11 and my parents hadn’t yet divorced. My brother and I stayed in my dad Eun’s tiny apartment in Seoul, which was walking distance from a park, a bowling alley and...

Over the past 25 years, no American album has changed the world-music landscape more than Paul Simon’s Graceland. Initially lauded as the folk singer’s comeback record, it made a cultural impact far...

Send your letters to feedback@pastemagazine.com and service concerns to mplayer@pastemagazine.com. GOOD BREAKING BAD REVIEWS I’m loving the weekly reviews of Breaking Bad! I watched the first episode...

Dance music icon Grace Jones has been setting trends since she was a regular at Studio 54, and much of the gender-bending dark glamour of today’s Gaga moment can be credited to her. Jones is smart...

The silly title of Eponymous, the debut album from Roberts & Lord, suggests the goofy nature of the disc, but it provides some misdirection, too. Rafter Roberts (of Rafter) and Simon Lord (formerly of...

Let’s face it, hillbillies and their ilk have been getting the short end of the pitchfork in movies since the strains of banjo music faded in 1972’s Deliverance. And whether due to radiation (The...

Guillermo del Toro has made it his duty to reintroduce the modern film audience to vintage horror. Like some twisted cheerleader, he’s promoted,...

Aesthetically, The Debt hardly fails to satisfy. The urgent plot, convincing performances and sudden spurts of violence saturate it with an overwhelming amount of suspense that makes it far more...

Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life is certainly one of the strangest biopics to ever be made, but that’s certainly not a bad thing. For starters, there’s that...

Shut Up Little Man!: An Audio Misadventure is a documentary account of a series of viral, pre-Internet tape recordings of Raymond Huffman and Peter Haskett, two raging alcoholics who engaged in...

It’s a weird choice for season six of Futurama to wind down (despite having one more episode next week) with a plotline it’s largely done before. Not just done and had largely forgotten, either;...

Scottish indie rockers Frightened Rabbit have been favorites of the Paste staff for quite some time now. So when Scott Hutchinson and his bandmates stopped by last month to film and record a session,...

Israeli synth-pop duo Hank & Cupcakes caught off us guard. Their first two questions for our Paste staff were as follows: 1) Where’s the nearest liquor store? 2) Do we have to wear clothes for the...

Afie Jurvanen, known by the stage name Bahamas, couldn’t have picked a less apt name to reflect his musical and personal background. Hailing from Toronto, the songwriter’s minimal, harmony-laden folk...

Last March, Icelandic folk singer-songwriter Ólöf Arnalds play at Paste’s Party in Austin. Check out “Crazy Car” from her performance...

For this week’s selection from Wolfgang’s Vault archive, check out Toots & the Maytals performing their classic single “Pressure Drop” at the Winterland in San Francisco, Calif. on Nov. 15,...