2.14.2012

By now, you’re probably aware of the story behind Tennis’ Cape Dory album: the husband-and-wife duo of Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley sold their possessions, bought a boat, sailed the Eastern Seaboard...

It’s safe to say that music brought Linford Detweiler and Karin Bergquist together. They were in a band before they were friends and friends before they became husband-and-wife. But from that first...

Washed Out began a few months before Ernest and Blair Greene tied the knot in 2009. While Ernest primarily writes songs of the Georgia-based electronic act, his wife is every bit a part of the group....

We have a dumpster behind a Whole Foods in Raleigh, N.C. to thank for the sweet pop melodies that Bowerbirds creates. Two-thirds of the band happens to be dating and have been together for a very long...

Seattle hip-hop producers Catherine Harris-White and Stasia Irons are set to release their debut album awE NaturalE next month, a culminating work that’s been five years in the making for this musical...

Derek Webb now has more than a dozen albums under his belt—split almost equally between his former band Caedmon’s Call and a solo career—quietly...

If Blonds’ recently released, super NSFW video was any indication, the band isn’t shy about putting their relationship in the public eye. The duo, which is Cari Rae and Jordy Asher, released the EP...

Erika Simonian and Steve Curtis of the New Jersey group Little Silver recorded their first album in 2010 and that debut, an EP entitled The Stolen Souvenir, represented the musical conjoining of the...

Sometimes fate has a lot to do with love and forming a band. Hannah Hooper knew Christian Zucconi was the one for her the moment she laid eyes on him in New York City. “I fell madly in love with him,”...

All it takes is a viewing of Brown Bird’s live performance to tell there’s more than music between the duo. Dave Lamb and MorganEve Swain are the core of the group, with Lamb on lead vocals and Swain...

As a member of the Wolfgang’s Vault family, Paste has access to a rich archive of historic audio interviews from a variety of sources. Many of these interviews have never existed in text form. Our new...

The assassination of a president seems like an unlikely source of comedy, but two recent events reminded me that there is always an exception to prove every rule. The first of these circumstances was...

If vocalist-mandolinist Chris Thile and his merry band of prog-grass virtuosos decided to record an album crammed with foot-stompin’ breakneck noodling, I’d be first in line to carry their cases to...

In the midst of all the indie “beach pop” bands emerging in 2010 and 2011, the unassuming boy-girl duo that is Tennis felt like a great light-hearted break from all the melancholy of bands like Real...

When Mitch Ryder growls out the line “Thank you, mama, everything you said came true,” on opening track “Thank You, Mama” it is more than clear that the Detroit rock ‘n’ roll legend’s first album of...

It’s said that Phil Collins would never have left Genesis and ventured out on his own if his relationship with his first wife hadn’t crumbled. If Adele’s boyfriend hadn’t smashed her heart, her hit...

On their fourth album, the Ohio minimalist rockers haven’t made any drastic changes to their aesthetic or approach to songwriting, but there is a discernable increase in the quality and strength of...

Over the course of its decade-long life, Jonathan Meiburg’s Shearwater has excelled in developing atmosphere and texture within an indie-rock context. With Animal Joy, the band doesn’t drop that...

“Somewhere over the rainbow, skies will be blue,” sings Rosie Thomas on her sixth full-length, surrounded by canned strings and modest fingerpicking. “Somewhere over the rainbow, dreams will come...

Dropping the Harpoons and seeking a sound.When Ezra Furman and the Harpoons’ first record came out, there was a good argument to be made that the scene could actually use a dead-on Violent Femmes...

Perfect Sense is a film certainly worthy of appreciation, but a struggle to love. It promises an exciting premise—people around the world are starting to lose their senses, beginning with the sense of...

Part of the fun in An Idiot Abroad‘s second season comes from the surprising way Ricky and Stephen—or whoever it was that actually planned out Karl’s agendas—go about getting him to his bucket list...

The more I think of this week’s episode of Archer, I realize it is somewhat of an anomaly for the series. Usually with Archer the show builds to a third act that is an excellent combination of action...

Up All Night has had the ability to turn classic sitcom fare into something clever without ever going over the top. It’s something I’ve said before and will continue saying until this overlooked...

“You must be the one they call Devil.” -Quarles Without the capitalization, it would be difficult to tell from that quote just which Justified character Quarles is talking to. Harlan County has devils...

While it has seemed like Nick and Jess have been predetermined to end up together at some point in New Girl, it’s not so much because they are the show’s two main stars, but rather because they are...

Quick…how many Internet memes and bourgeois trends can you spot in this week’s episode of Portlandia? Cats. Check. Kickstarter. Check. Pitchfork and Polyphonic Spree mentions. Check and double check....

You know when a movie is the middle segment of what will be a trilogy, so it doesn’t really have a wholly independent narrative arc of its own (see The Empire Strikes Back and The Matrix Reloaded)?...

“We have to get out of this town.” -Peter Bishop Hey Fringe, your influences are showing. It has been no secret that Fringe draws from a long list of sources, Lost and The X-Files being the two...

To live up to its reputation as fresh and inventive, Shameless continuously brings in new characters and new subplots. The downside is having to be patient while these multiple stories develop. Last...

A SoulCalibur fan considers the brand new SoulCalibur V.Forward, forward Y. The katana flashes out of its scabbard, slicing into my opponent and knocking her into the air. X, X. Before she lands, I...

Crazy HedgyPlatform: iOSDeveloper: cybertimeRelease Date: 12/20/2011Price: $4.99 Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCgtFHRWHSE Crazy Hedgy is an action-platformer about a hedgehog who rolls...

The past couple months have been quite busy for indie-pop outfit Mates of State. Coming off release of their latest album Mountaintops, the husband-and-wife partnership of Kori Gardner and Jason...

The dream-pop outfit Radiation City, originally composed of Cameron Spies and his girlfriend Lizzy Ellison, first released the recordings on their own cassette-only label Apes Tapes. After an...

While preparing to record a private session for Paste’s film crew at the DeLuna Fest in Pensacola Beach, Fla., Grouplove looked longingly at the water as we walked down the beach. They cracked jokes...

Atlanta orch-pop ensemble Oryx and Crake found a sweet spot through their combination of traditional pop songwriting, orchestral arrangements and sound-design techniques back in August 2010 when they...