4.24.2012

The readymades of Marcel Duchamp elicit some pretty strong emotions. In the early 20th century, the French surrealist artist took ordinary objects—most notably, a urinal he entitled...

For a noisy, guitar-rooted Brooklyn band that’s lately been the subject of plenty of blog entries, tweets, mentions in South By Southwest roundups and what will probably be high-ranking spots on...

The Muses Parade, which always rolls the Thursday evening before Fat Tuesday, is one of the most beloved of all Mardi Gras parades in New Orleans. On February 16 this year, I found myself on Napoleon...

Hometown: Los Angeles, Calif.Members: Ty Taylor (vocals), Nalle Colt (guitar), Rick Barrio Dill (bass), Richard Danielson (drums)Album: The Bomb Shelter SessionsFor Fans Of: Alabama Shakes, Otis...

Welcome to the first installment of …Recommends, where some of our favorite people tell us about an album, movie, TV show, book, game and drink they think Paste readers should know about. First up is...

Paste has long believed that videogames are a vital part of pop culture. We’ve expanded our games coverage with a new essay column called The Leaderboard. Twice a month we’ll be running an essay or...

It’s a good thing the White Stripes broke up. If they hadn’t, we’d still be suffering through overblown, overrated albums from a band that hit its peak sometime between 2004 and 2006. Instead, we get...

On “What Kind of World,” the opening title track of his latest solo album, Brendan Benson laments about being, “So looked over, so underrated” over a somber organ and appregiated guitar chords, and...

The phrase “indie supergroup” gets bandied about a fair amount these days, pretty much any time musicians from one relatively well-known band decide to get together and cut some tracks with the...

Justin Ringle and his band of merry musicians collectively known as Horse Feathers have put forth a very inspiring baroque pop album for their fourth release. Cynic’s New Year is filled with layer...

Allo Darlin’s sunny twee-pop has always been cinematic, but very approachable. The London quartet’s self-titled debut was filled with enthusiasm and sweet melodies. Their follow-up, Europe continues...

Like an M-80 in church, Vintage Trouble lands with a hiss and then blows apart what’s come to define modern soul, blues and rock. Taking pages from Lenny Kravitz, The Stones and The Black Crowes, The...

Sarah Jaffe’s 2010 debut full-length Suburban Nature began with simple measured strums on her acoustic guitar. The album wasn’t completely spare—eventually slow pulls on the violin colored that...

For 24 years, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has opposed Burma’s oppressive military regime and advocated for true democracy for her people—at great personal cost, including 15 years of...

Lawrence Kasdan’s Darling Companion, which he co-wrote with his wife Meg, is a perfectly serviceable family drama centered on a dog. It’s unclear, however, who its audience is. Although it features an...

The Moth Diaries takes another hapless bite out of the popular high school vampire saga, attempting to provide an interesting twist on a genre we should all have overdosed on by now, fans of fangs or...

Game of Thrones’ first season often felt more like historical fiction than fantasy if we could just imagine a history quite different than our own. But then came the dragons, and slowly more and more...

Well, huh. I don’t think any of us ever thought we’d see an episode of Mad Men where Roger Sterling comes out looking like the mature, level-headed one. We’re just six episodes into this season (about...

With a title like “The Last Walt,” we were expecting a lot from this week’s Modern Family episode. We imagined the possibilities of exploring Luke’s friendship with his crotchety neighbor Walt (played...

Huge revelations helped move The Killing along this week. Last week’s main suspect, a young Alexi who lost his father at the hands of Rosie’s father, helped unravel more of the building mystery...

I’d already watched this episode of Girls when I wrote last week’s review of the pilot. Much of what I wrote there applies to this episode, and to next week’s as well. “Vagina Panic” improves on the...

After its brief hiatus, Parks and Recreation jumped right back to the thick of things, with Leslie Knope’s campaign and the hard choices it entails. Due to some budget problems we don’t really get to...

Since its first appearance, the dreamatorium—which may seem like a fixture of the show at this point, but actually just arrived nine episodes ago—has functioned as a way of compartmentalizing Abed’s...

On the most basic level, Analogue: A Hate Story is a visual novel, the kind normally filled with attractive anime-inspired characters and the promise of romantic entanglements. It’s much more than...

CrowPlatform: iOSDeveloper: Sunside Inc.Release Date: 04/12/2012Price: $2.99 Crow’s fairly serious tone is refreshing compared to all the cute and cuddly games that fill the App Store today. The dark...

In dystopian novels, we often find ourselves cheering on a protagonist’s desperate escape. We want our hero to not only question the beliefs that have so deeply brainwashed his or her society, but to...

Robert Nesta “Bob” Marley may be simultaneously the most idolized and least understood superstar in music history. A deep thinker and mystic, he’s been too often relegated to pro-marijuana rallies and...

Vintage Trouble is bringing a jolt of electricity back to rock ’n’ roll. The Los Angeles quartet got noticed for their opening slot on Bon Jovi’s stadium tour last year, but Vintage Trouble’s classic,...

Husband-and-wife duo Patrick Riley and Alaina Moore are joined live by drummer James Barone as they tour behind their latest effort, last month’s Young & Old. While their debut, Cape Dory, was...

Scottish quintet Admiral Fallow has released its first proper music video from their forthcoming sophomore effort, Tree Bursts in Snow. The clip for “The Paper Trench,” directed by Greg Davenport, was...

The Band drummer/mandolinist/vocalist Levon Helm passed away last week, ending a long fight with throat cancer. In honor of Helm, we’ve combed through the video archives of Wolfgang’s Vault, selecting...