4.17.2012

Warning: Audio and video contains profanity and coarse humor. Kate Micucci didn’t swear “at all” until she started working with Riki Lindhome. Then they wrote a song called “Fuck You.” (To be fair,...

Warning: Audio and video contains profanity and coarse humor. The sordid and the fabulous become one on Natasha Leggero’s debut stand-up album, 2011’s Coke Money. Leggero appears on the cover wearing...

By his own admission, H. Jon Benjamin is not an especially good voice actor. For starters, he doesn’t have much range, which means almost all of his characters speak in his signature low-key bass...

Warning: Audio and video contains profanity and coarse humor. The last time Paste spoke with Hannibal Buress, he had just started writing for 30 Rock, making good on years of stand-up work, not to...

It’s no secret at this point: the comedy-podcast market has become completely over-saturated. Podcasting is a format that’s entirely free, and in 2012, there are simply too many options to choose...

Before Parks and Recreation, before Randy, even before Human Giant, there was Clell Tickle, Indie Marketing Guru. Aziz Ansari’s viral video as promoter of the band Tapes ’n Tapes paved the way for his...

It is a distinct honor and privilege to be running for my life in the burned-out ruins of a post office on Chicago’s South Side. My prized boiler suit...

Dylan Brody is an award winning playwright, humorist, thrice-published author and a regular contributor to The Huffington Post. His fantastic new album, Chronological Disorder, is out now on Stand Up!...

Portlandia is obviously written by two musicians. The Joanna Newsom cameo isn’t the only way to tell; Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen play jumpcuts and repeated sound cues like they’re guitar or...

In 2006, two friends—Seth Romatelli and Jonathan Laroquette—began the first episode of a podcast called Uhh Yeah Dude with a heavy sigh and the words, “12:14 am, February 10th…10th? 11th. As of now....

The title of Reggie Watts’ lone record is Why Shit So Crazy? and, if we really wanted to, we could amend it so that it addressed the root of the situation. We could ask, “Why is Reggie Watts so...

This is essential listening for any fan of film, comedy, or, of course, Woody Allen himself. Taped in his New York City office just months before the release of Annie Hall, this interview captures...

Modeling himself after the comedic stylings of Bob Newhart, Jack Benny and Woody Allen, 29-year-old John Mulaney, Saturday Night Live writer/producer and creator of viral sensation Stefon Zolesky, is...

On the final album he recorded before he passed away last year, Patrice O’Neal says as he gets older his mind gets dirtier. Uh, bro, we could tell that already. Mr. P finds O’ Neal in uproariously...

We’re the holdouts. Every married couple we know has kids or is having kids or is trying to make kids. My wife and I were one of the first couples we...

Spencer Krug, one of indie-rock’s most prolific and schizoid songsmiths, has always displayed a knack for channeling broad emotions through fucked-up sentiments. But I’m not sure anybody was prepared...

Since when is it a sin to be both artful and catchy? On Beware and Be Grateful, their sophomore full-length, oft-lauded Chicago math-rock quartet Maps & Atlases have suffered the slings and arrows of...

Matthew Stephen Ward’s Cottage Industry of Traveling Song is doing pretty damn brisk business these days. His prolific personal brand, which has averaged an album a year since the mid-2000s, between...

Deeply rooted in ‘60s harmonies and foreign drum beats, Dinosaur Feathers’ Whistle Tips puts the Brooklyn quartet in line with a recent slew of pop bands who pull inspiration from everywhere and...

Dan Griffin has detailed Arkells’ sophomore album Michigan Left with the sonic complexity of a live performance. While recording at legendary Bathouse Studio in Kingston, Ontario, the...

Blue Like Jazz represents Steve Taylor’s sophomore outing as a feature director. A riotous adaptation of Donald Miller’s book of essays reworked by Taylor, Miller and co-writer Ben Pearson into a tale...

For a movie chock-full of twists, perhaps the biggest is that despite all appearances to the contrary, The Cabin in the Woods is a heartfelt love story. Mind you, not between any of the young and...

Part The Ring and part Hugo, Playback takes a potentially intriguing concept and punctuates it with extreme gore rather than thrilling suspense. Throw in some uninspired writing and nonsensical plot...

It seems unfair to demand air-tight plotting from the sci-fi thriller Lockout. Co-written and produced by Luc Besson, France’s leading pulp-film purveyor, Lockout takes place in 2079 and depicts a...

In her new HBO series Girls, writer/director Lena Dunham plays a young writer who hopes to publish a book of essays. Perhaps Dunham should pursue that direction in real life. Her smart and...

The moral dilemmas of Game of Thrones are a little different than those faced by its audience. We rarely have to choose between allegiance to our father and to the family who held us captive and...

After a large-scale theme episode like “Pillows and Blankets,” it’s nice to have a little bit of breathing room with a more normal week from Community (especially when there’s another one just waiting...

It’s been nearly a month since the last new episode of ABC’s Modern Family, and we welcomed its return over the boundless network TV reruns of late. (And sorry, we just can’t bring ourselves to watch...

Touch is a series that week to week treads a very fine line. In an hour every week, the show tries to connect people from all over the world and make their connections engaging, touching and exciting,...

In “Ricky’s Tacos,” Dr. Lee, one of Michael’s two therapists, mentions the idea of pentimento, where an artist has the intention of drawing one thing, then draws over that idea with another image....

For the second half of this season of New Girl, the show has refined its ability to give all of its characters worthwhile, fleshed-out storylines. But sometimes, it is fun just to watch the cast...

Good dramas need one thing above all else to be successful: being tightly wound. In the first season of The Killing it looked like everything fell so neatly into place, even with all of the red...

“Don’t judge him. No one can be certain exactly what they’re capable of, how far they’ll go to save the ones they love. I know this more than most.” -Walter Bishop With only a few hours left this...

The South has always considered itself a storytelling nation—an independent and misunderstood country of citizens who balk at belonging, cling to...

In videogames, we have to interact with surfaces, and use trial and error to construct a mental model of what lies below—how high we can jump, how far we can fall. The game knows this information to...

Five A DayPlatform: iOSDeveloper: LlamasoftRelease Date: 04/9/2012Price: $1.99 Should we just go ahead and rename this feature “Jeff Minter’s Weekly Ego-Boost”? Last week Luke Larsen raved about the...

Although Punch Brothers are named after a short story that’s over a century old, their music is as forward-thinking as it gets. Combining bluegrass instrumentation with brilliant progressions and...

Chicago’s Maps & Atlases stirred up plenty of buzz in 2006 with their debut EP, Tree, Swallows, Houses which featured a new, fast-fingered approach to guitar rock in indie music. Since then, the band...

For their second full-length album, Canadian rockers Zeus went back to the garage. Created at the Ill Eagle Studios in East Toronto, proved to be the perfect place to record Busting Visions, the...

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...