9.27.2011

Katie Herzig didn’t learn guitar until she entered college, but she’s been making up songs for almost as long as she can remember. “My parents had music in their blood, and I always felt connected to...

“I don’t know if I regret not quitting music for a year.” When I first spoke to Dum Dum Girls frontwoman Dee Dee (née Kristin Gundred) last February leading up to the release of the group’s He Gets Me...

“Sorry, I think a bird just shat on me.” Sally Timms wipes at her blouse, utterly nonplussed. Interrupting Jon Langford’s story about visiting a cemetery in North Wales, she is neither upset nor...

The Coathangers have their little come-ons. They have those sweet nothings that they flaunt, that they place out as bait, right in the middle of their dangerous steel-jawed traps. It’s the honey...

It’s an impossible task, but what the hell: Let’s define a generation. If I asked you to string together some adjectives to describe young American adults (call us Gen X, Gen Y or whatever you want),...

Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow have captured imaginations since the Great Depression, when their historic string of Midwestern bank robberies, shooting sprees, and a stash of film and poems found in...

For a while, Van Hunt was a well-connected industry type, writing and producing for pop singers like Dionne Farris, Joi and Nikka Costa. He’s even managed by Randy “Pitchy Dawg” Jackson. But beneath...

Even in the afterglow of chillwave’s crest, nostalgia continues to be pervasive as a theme and aesthetic construct in contemporary indie pop. The warped and faded sound, loosed from its bedrock of...

The popularity of the “small ensemble” is quickly becoming one of the most exciting and progressive developments in art music today. With ensembles like Victoire (who released their debut LP last...

The early decades of the 19th century, known in the UK as the Edwardian Era, were years of great industrial innovation. The proliferation of rail and assembly lines allowed corporations to grow to...

“I’ve sold five million records. Somebody calls it singing,” Elvis quips to a reporter questioning what it is he actually does. It’s an odd moment, but it gives a slight hint at what 1956 must have...

So much about In Heaven, the full-length debut from Long Island quintet Twin Sister, could be boring as hell: The music flirts with all those annoying genre buzzwords (i.e. “chillwave”); the songs get...

Rod Lurie’s remake of Sam Peckinpah’s 1971 Straw Dogs is everything that the trailer suggests. Some viewers unfamiliar with the original will find Straw Dogs (2011) to be a socially conscious horror...

These days elegiac Westerns are the only kind anyone seems interested in making anymore. But when the result is a film as moody and beautiful as Mateo Gil’s Blackthorn, that’s not a bad thing at...

By far the most ambitious TV show of the new season, Terra Nova came with both dinosaur-sized budget and expectations. While every other spiritual successor to Lost has fallen well short, the networks...

Whitney Cummings has big shoes to fill. Her show Whitney is fourth in a lineup that features the funny, but under-appreciated Community, Emmy-nominated Parks and Recreation and the long-loved The...

Whenever The Gang from Paddy’s Pub decide to leave the comfort of their home Philadelphia, things go even worse than when they stay put at their bar....

One of the things Breaking Bad has always been great at doing is making its audience feel uncomfortable. And more so than previous seasons, season four has really pushed the limits of what we can...

Last week’s cliffhanger left How I Met Your Mother’s audience wondering why Victoria, Ted’s pastry chef love interest that he cheated on with Robin while she was in Germany way back in season one, has...

Saturday Night Live began its 37th season exactly as expected, with a skit about the Republican debates. There might not have been any recurring characters in last night’s episode, but the debate...

Every month videogame developer Darius Kazemi reviews outsider videogames — games that are created by people outside the mainstream of videogame...

If you’ve ever sat in a diner at 3 a.m. after a concert and hashed over the set list minute by minute, song by song—or marked the events in your life...

Wilco released a new video today for The Whole Love track “Born Alone.” A press release from the band says the video was created by Mark Greenberg, a Chicago-based videographer, musician and audio...

Singer/songwriter and geek humorist Jonathan Coulton, who was in town for this month’s Dragon*Con festivities, stopped by the Paste offices to perform several songs off his new record Artificial...

While many folk artists draw from the genre’s longstanding traditions, early 20th century revivalists Carolina Chocolate Drops stand as one of the best modern-day acts recreating antiquated styles....

Watch New Jersey folk outfit River City Extension continue their Newport experience well after their main set at the festival ended, performing inside the Paste ruins inside the walls of Fort...

“Every time I’d pick up a guitar, I’d get frustrated,” said Sarah Jaffe said about having writer’s block, which she said came from an awareness of writing for her audience. So instead of returning to...

Each week, Paste reviews the most intriguing comic books, graphic novels, graphic memoirs and other illustrated books. Green River Killer: A True...