3.27.2012

By the time he got behind the wheel of his car, Rob Delaney had long since blacked out. At his friend’s apartment in Hollywood, he’d drank beer until the keg went dry. Then he switched to wine, then...

There’s a giant hole in the press room wall. Movable panels, yards high, separate this fluorescent-lit room from the presentation next door. I don’t know what’s going on—convention center employees...

I’m finally listening to “Port of Morrow,” the Shins album that came out last week, and though it’s too early to form an impression worth putting down in words, the mere act of listening to a new...

Recorded in 1987 for the King Biscuit broadcast from David Bowie’s Glass Spider Tour this is a formal sit-down with Bowie aimed at promoting the tour. He talks in depth about the tour’s production, as...

If you still haven’t listened to Harlem River Blues, Nashville heir-to-the-Americana throne Justin Townes Earle’s 2010 album, go do that first, before you get into Nothing’s Gonna Change the Way You...

On one hand, we all should have seen this shit coming. Damon Albarn, veteran songwriter-chameleon behind Blur’s classic Britpop stylings and the...

“I went to prom with the Octomom,” raps Chicago absurdist Serengeti toward the end of Beak & Claw, a batshit collaborative project featuring indie-pop heartthrob Sufjan Stevens and Anticon producer...

Within the first few notes of opener “Love That’s Gone”—before a single word is uttered—it’s pretty clear that Sees the Light is a breakup record. In fact, Vivian Girls bassist Katy Goodman’s second...

The Mars Volta have made a career out of creating intricate, highly conceptual music that confounds just as much as it intrigues. The group’s records are usually intended to be examined as a whole...

awE naturalE is an album without floors or ceilings. It neither begins nor ends. It doesn’t announce its existence with grand intentions or furrowed severity—it prefers to adroitly hover in the air....

Ray Wylie Hubbard’s scrappy sound contains parts of everything that have made both rock and country albums from the ‘70s withstand the test of time. Grifter’s Hymnal may have been released in 2012,...

For her seventh album, Kentucky-born singer-songwriter Joan Osborne returns to her roots—the soul, blues and R&B she sang while coming up in New York. But perhaps she shouldn’t have waited so long....

Despite bigger budgets and higher-profile casts, writer-directors Jay and Mark Duplass (The Puffy Chair, Cyrus) have stayed true to their lo-fi, improvisational aesthetic, and Jeff, Who Lives at Home...

In the Swedish film, Sound of Noise, directed by Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjärne Nilsson, six rogue, experimental musicians coordinate four guerilla performances throughout their city in an attempt...

Kiwi director Mike Wallis clearly had both Sergio Leone’s spaghetti western classics and the down-and dirty HBO series Deadwood in mind when he came up with the idea for his debut film, Good For...

Director Michael Knowles aptly delivers a lighthearted comedy sure to become an indie favorite. It is, however, refreshing that The Trouble With Bliss (based on Douglas Light’s novel, East Fifth...

Claustrophobia at its finest, Gabe Torres’ Brake stuffs audiences into the trunk of a car, along with a kicking and screaming Jeremy Reins (Stephen Dorff), for nearly the entire duration of the 88...

Directed by Tony Kaye (American History X), Detachment tells the story of an emotionally withdrawn substitute teacher, Henry Barthes (Adrien Brody), whose world is turned upside down as his...

“If this is the way the good lord wants it to end, I consider myself prepared.” -Shelby The end is coming. It’s so close now that I can smell it, and it smells like blood. During the first two seasons...

Every once in a while, New Girl deals with the idea of differing classes, mostly because Schmidt makes an untold amount of money, while Nick is usually struggling to pay for drunken poker bets and has...

When watching Alcatraz, I like my criminals to be as weird as possible. I don’t mind the occasional bank robber or innocent guard, but I’m always more keen to a crazed man sniping women at an...

All things considered, Up All Night is a good show. However, while the first season has had a lot of great moments, it’s also been littered with uneasy scenes or even full episodes that fell flat. At...

The world of Mad Men, much like the characters who live in it, has never been overly concerned with the past. That might seem like an odd thing to say about a series that wows us every week with spot...

“How much time do we have?” -Nina Sharpe There’s a strange part of me that has started hoping that these last eight episodes of the fourth season of Fringe turn out to be the end of the series. This...

In what is easily the most emotional episode of the series, everything breaks loose when Karen has her baby, Monica attempts suicide, Steve goes back to being Jimmy and Carl shoots a bald eagle with...

And the garage is for cars.It all makes sense now. Almost everything that makes Kenny Powers (Danny McBride) who he is — the arrogance, belligerence, deceitfulness, vulgarity and vanity — springs...

Archer is a show that knows its strengths. People love to see the spy parodies, the drunken antics of Archer and the overall insanity that occurs at the ISIS offices. But one thing that Archer...

When Fox decided to premiere the pilot of its new show Touch two months ago, it was an odd way for the network to debut its newest drama. Airing your pilot separate from the rest of the series can be...

Where’s the fan outrage over this ending? Oh, right, sometimes a game is just a game. There is a story to Kid Icarus: Uprising, and characters talk to one another with real human voices, but that...

Adventure Bar StoryPlatform: iOSDeveloper: RideonRelease Date: 03/08/2012Price: $2.99 Japanese games have been in a state of flux for the past few years. Here in the states, gamers and critics have...

Mike Cooley, one of the two songwriting powers behind the Drive-By Truckers, isn’t the first thing you notice onstage when watching his band. His counterpart Paterson Hood usually steals the...

Last year, Paste met up with Justin Townes Earle at the Hangout Music Festival in Gulf Shores, Ala. before his captivating set on the festival’s final day. Watch him perform of a cover of Lightnin’...

27 years after beginning his noise-rock group The Wedding Present, David Gedge treks as one of the most underrated rock frontman of the past quarter-century. The Leeds-based act released Valentina...

The Belle Brigade’s Ethan and Barbara Gruska released their self-titled album last year. The California folk-pop album features the uplifting anthem “Losers,” a song that reveals how sick the...

An interesting study in contrasts, The Ramones: an oft’ acclaimed first punk rock band whose nom d’ play paid homage to those slicked back, t-shirt sleeved greaser rockers of the ’50s. Fifties in name...