3.20.2012

“Shit ain’t easy without a label.” Richard Edwards isn’t bitter over his decision for his band Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s to part ways with...

Although it might not come across in the band’s mellow demeanor or songs—actually, if you’re talking to the band, they’re called “jams”—Caveman wasn’t messing around when they came to Austin’s South...

Being a guy alone at a party, bar or even just walking down the street is hard. Especially if you look like DC Pierson. It’s a joke he told the crowd at the modestly sized Esther’s Follies in Austin...

Before February 7, the closest I’d ever come to meeting an NBA player was 1993 when I attended the graduation of a family friend at the Naval Academy...

From the title of this post, you might assume I’m writing about a particularly terrible sitcom debuting on network television next fall about a wacky prisoner and his scuffles with the curmudgeonly...

A column questioning the assumptions of popular music The recent memorials and tributes for Whitney Houston reminded us once again what a huge influence religious song has had on Anglo-American pop...

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...

Five years: That’s how long it’s been since The Shins released their last record. It’s not necessarily an exorbitant amount of time, but a lot can change in five years. Five years ago, I was in the...

The woman who stares out at you from the cover of Lost in the Trees’ second album resembles a Renaissance muse more than a photographed subject. She is the mother of the band’s frontman Ari Picker,...

A dour precision creeps through the synthy layers of Rhine Gold. On his second record, Jannis Noya Makrigiannis, the Danish Grammy-winning musician behind Copenhagen’s Choir of Young Believers, plays...

For the culmination of their four-volume Nomad series, the Cowboy Junkies provide a satisfying set that is aptly reflective of the 18-month journey, and their 25-year career. The series represents a...

Memphis Americana group Lucero’s ninth studio album Women & Work is a parachute of interwoven themes of working women, work and men who work and love their women. It’s been a long time since 1998, and...

Natural Selection starts with a boner. It’s an old boner, and it belongs to Abe (John Diehl), a Christian zealot who’s refused sex to his 40-year-old wife for nearly 25 years. So it’s an old, unused...

Based on the series of not-Tarzan novels first written by Edgar Rice Burroughs in 1911, Andrew Stanton’s John Carter is a disappointment over 100 years in the making. And considering how many...

The Kid with a Bike continues the Belgian writing-directing brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s extraordinary run of charting the lives of European down-and-outers navigating difficult moral and...

Imagine you’re watching a romance develop on screen between two sublimely understated actors. They avoid the contrivances of the clichéd way these...

Remember To see in my eyes The sun which I will now cover for ever With black butterflies… —Ingrid Jonker The tragic and mysterious story of a writer—oft described as the South African Sylvia Plath—is...

In December 2010, renowned Iranian director Jafar Panahi (Offside) was sentenced to six years in prison and banned from making films for 20 years. His crime? Supporting the opposition party during...

Like the rest of you, I’ve been impatiently waiting for Community to return. There’s been an incredible amount of support from its fanbase, as well as a smaller, but perhaps equally vocal, amount of...

On New Girl, no one has garnered more laughs from me than Schmidt. He’s a cocky, organized, control freak who is prone to making himself more so with every episode and unusual Schmidt witticism. Out...

As we reach the last few episodes of Alcatraz for its premiere season, I must say I like the direction the show has been heading. It is not a show that goes for too much change from week to week, but...

While this comedy/drama often features the sad and tragic, the show never quite reaches the extremely horrible stage of sad and tragic, as in the death of a child or a primary character, although this...

After a riotous episode that left us with memorable catchphrases like “monsterating” and “Satan’s trifecta,” Modern Family returned this week with a new episode, “Send Out the Clowns.” Yes, we...

Reviewing the first part of a two-part episode usually can have its problems. You have all the action building and building, then…you have to wait till next week. Imagine watching Titanic, then...

This week’s episode of How I Met Your Mother was intense. Excuse me, Marshall’s right: it was Quinn-tense. After a few weeks off, the show returned with an episode written by the creators, which...

With last week’s episode of Awake, the show presented us with the idea that there may be more going on than meets the eye, beyond the show’s already interesting premise. With “Guilty,” Awake deepens...

The First World War demonstrated humanity’s capacity for self-destruction on a scale never before seen. The introduction of aerial combat, trench warfare, and chemical weapons, among other cruel...

Waking MarsPlatform: iOSDeveloper: Tiger Style GamesRelease Date: 03/01/2012Price: $4.99 Thousands of video games ask you to take life, but very few ask you to create it. Waking Mars, the new release...

When I opened my mail in January of 2011 and found the galley of One Hundred and One Nights and accompanying blurb request from Benjamin Buchholz’s...

Wild Beasts’ music delves into the cathartic and the reclusive, the visceral and the calculated. But rather than stirring up more raw emotion, the group’s mission for its their most recent record...

Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s have become quite rowdy on their two previous albums. Both 2010’s Buzzard and today’s release of Rot Gut, Domestic...

DeLuna Fest went down in Pensacola Beach, Fla. from Oct. 14-16, where Paste recorded and filmed takeaway sessions throughout the weekend. We met up with Adam Granduciel and David Hartley of The War on...

Lost in the Trees were one of our favorite acts that played our 2011 SXSW day parties. During their set last year, the North Carolina orchestral-pop group previewed “Garden”—a track that would...