10.25.2011

Before Sleigh Bells, Parisian electronic duo Justice took distortion and compressed volume to the cracking point on its debut album †, even though the music consisted of film-score string swoops, slap...

Hometown: London, EnglandAlbum: Creatures of an HourMembers: Tessa Murray, Greg Hughes, Leon Dufficy, Luke Jarvis, and Paul MayhewFor Fans Of: Beach House, Lia Ices, The xx It’s mid-afternoon and the...

One of the best-known aphorisms about writing, “Write what you know,” has led to plenty of terrible screenplays by self-absorbed Hollywood hopefuls. But David Rosenthal turned personal experience into...

Without divulging any sensitive or personal information, this morning in Los Angeles in late October was a heart-wrenching, unfair and odious morning that should have been any other way than the way...

On October 26, 2006, while I waited on Ludlow Street to interview Justin Rice, my stomach was boiling with nerves. This was going to be my first major interview, and it was with someone I considered,...

If burlesque-rockabilly-beach pop wasn’t already a genre, multi-instrumentalist siblings Kitty, Daisy & Lewis’ new album will definitely push to make it one. On their third official album the Durham...

John McCauley’s career in music has been fixed on a path of steady evolution ever since the release of Deer Tick’s studio debut War Elephant in 2007. With each subsequent record, his band has risen to...

Tarot Classics, Surfer Blood’s new palette-cleansing EP, finds the Florida-based indie-rock quartet in a winsome state of flux. Recent Warner Bros. signees, transplanted from their original label, the...

For his 20th studio album, Tom Waits’ wife and longtime musical collaborator, Kathleen Brennan, advised the gravelly voiced Rock and Roll Hall of Famer to keep it simple. No long, winding epic songs...

Coldplay have always wanted it both ways. Since they arrived on the scene back in the early, early 2000s, they’ve (somewhat awkwardly) balanced two aspirations: being mega-pop titans and the next...

Christmas Albums. Being as I’ve never actually made one myself, I can’t be too certain, but I imagine it’s a fun and rewarding enterprise for everyone involved, especially for those musicians wrapped...

It’s telling that for their second album, Queens, N.Y.’s The Beets chose Stay Home as a title, both alluding to and contradicting their self-proclaimed idols The Ramones. Likewise The Beets’ lo-fi...

Margin Call has been described as a thriller, but you could also call it a chamber drama. It contains thrills and suspense, yes, but not from chases or murder plots. The only gun barrel that the...

In the opening scene of Oranges and Sunshine, social worker Margaret Humphreys (Emily Watson) removes a baby from its mother’s care. She’s calm and methodical, talking to the parent and child in...

Big on suspense and cross-referencing various classics from Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry material to David Fincher’s Seven, Texas Killing Fields is in many ways the little film that could, offering...

Despite a confusing opening sequence and a disappointingly anticlimactic ending, Klitschko makes for a thrilling boxing documentary. Profiling Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko, the Ukrainian-born, German...

It’s hard to say which character has had it the worst in The Walking Dead. Is it Carol, who, while initially surviving with her family intact, was abused by her husband (now dead) and has just lost...

It’s a little early in a series to have grand-scale flashbacks, but that’s exactly what Up All Night tackled with last night’s episode. It’s not a plot where Reagan, Chris and Ava are sitting around...

Some of the best How I Met Your Mother episodes are the ones that show us flashbacks from before 2005 (season one) or that explore the past of the characters’ lives. Think about the episode where Ted...

During this episode of The League, an advertisement for Buffalo Wild Wings aired, which fully emphasized the sports bar chain’s slogan: ‘Wings. Beer. Sports.’ Buffalo Wild Wings makes its demographic...

In the opening pages of his new novel, North Carolina writer Charles Frazier describes the arrival of two mysterious children into the care of his protagonist, Luce, a lonely single woman caretaking a...

This war really doesn’t change.Gears of War 3 is like learning how to play football through a poorly written stageplay. The fantastic multiplayer murder-fests make up the actual game, and the single...

A few weekends ago, Paste traveled down to DeLuna Fest in Pensacola Beach, Fla., where we recorded takeaway sessions with several artists performing at the beach-side festival. Watch lighthearted...

Paste headed down to Pensacola Beach, Fla. for DeLuna Fest a couple weeks ago, where London-based band Still Corners got cozy in a hotel room by the beach to play a couple of songs for us. You might...

JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound describe themselves as a post-punk soul band, but their sound is so much more expansive than that. Uptown Sound is on par...

Sometimes you can gain perspective by simplifying something. That’s what Ozark-rooted Annie Williams did for her video for “Midnight Window,” an acoustic-led ballad that features only Williams and her...

From the preliminary planning stages of Crosby, Stills & Nash, the musicians had always planned to pursue solo projects in conjunction with working together. Following the monumental success of the...