5.8.2012

It was while Rufus Wainwright was on the road after his mother’s first cancer diagnosis in 2006 that the ritual started. At tour stops, the songwriter lit candles at churches for his ailing mother,...

“We’ll take the 2 to the 5 to the 134 and we’ll hop on the 101.” Alexander Ebert’s directions aren’t the path to the enlightenment he and his band, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, are seeking....

Whether you’re an avid churchgoer or you haven’t touched a book of scripture in years, it’s hard not to notice the rising temperature—and rising volume—surrounding the discussion of religion in...

Sometimes a misheard lyric, an inaccurate memory, or a misunderstood idiom can lead to some pretty great creative breakthroughs that lead in surprising directions. The title of this week’s wonderful...

Hometown: New York, New YorkMembers: Jocelyn Mackenzie (vocals, drum, melodica), Emily Hope Price (cello, vocals), Jeremy Styles (guitar,vocals)Album: Killing the DarlingsFor Fans Of: Dirty...

On the left side of the iTunes interface, beneath the Playlists category, is an icon for Top 25 Most Played. Click here, and you can see a list of your most frequently played songs since you first...

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 pretty ladies in the young Los Angeles band HAIM were practically glowing when they found Gary Clark Jr. sitting on the front porch of Good Danny’s in Austin, Texas, as they were arriving for...

“I wish this summer was my last summer,” warbles PS I Love You frontman Paul Saulnier on the glorious fuzzbath that is “Future Dontcare,” his cracking, Tom Verlaine-esque chirp engulfed in radiant,...

Damon Albarn’s got his eye on David Byrne’s career, and though he’s far less arch and brittle than Byrne, he’s unfortunately far less of an innovator. Albarn’s more like Byrne the taste-curator than...

Being a member of Bon Iver is equal amounts blessing and curse. The positives are obvious: success, fame, Grammys, critical acclaim oozing out your ass. But the biggest negative (particularly for...

When OFF! collected their first handful of 7" singles onto 2010’s The Four EPs, they perhaps unknowingly proved that hardcore’s ideals were timeless and regenerative—at least as much as those of SoCal...

It’s not like she took her Grammys and ran with ‘em: Ever since she took over the pop charts back in 2002 with her smooth-ass jazz-pop smash Come Away With Me, angel-voiced vixen Norah Jones has been...

Too often, a superhero film is an exercise in missing the point. This can have as much to do with a failure in basic, dramatic execution as it does with the oft-challenging prospect of translating...

Let’s talk about Richard Linklater, the man who just doesn’t seem to care what you think. Or, to be more specific, what his critics think. And that’s a good thing. How else could an unknown director...

In Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope, Morgan Spurlock gazes directly into the Heart of Dorkness—the annual Comic-Con in San Diego that began in 1970...

In spite of an original storyline and the amazing talent of Juliette Binoche, Elles fails to deliver on a perceived promise to deconstruct, re-define, or re-imagine notions of female sexuality....

The production company that brought us An Inconvenient Truth, about global climate change, and Food, Inc., about the American food industry, now tackles the international water crisis with this...

“Listen to the color of your dreams It is not leaving It is not leaving”-The Beatles, “Tomorrow Never Knows” “When did the music become so important?” If Don Draper could see what we’ve been seeing...

Never underestimate a son’s desire to win approval from his father. Game of Thrones plays like a treatise on selfish ambition, whether conniving (Lord Baelish) or forthright (King Joffrey). It stems...

Frustration. It’s a word used a lot with The Killing, and this week’s episode produced a lot of it. “Keylela” could have been, and should have been, an important episode. Yet, somehow it slipped...

Community‘s third season has been interested in setting up long, serialized stories for the gang rather than allowing things to work as episodically as they did in previous seasons. And while this...

Modern Family is in a bit of a slump. In last week’s “The Last Walt” episode, which we thought would play tribute to the Dunphys’ late, grumpy neighbor, the show chose to focus on other things—like...

The cast of New Girl feels like it has grown a great amount since the show premiered in September. Nick’s ex Caroline seems like forever ago, and with the exception of a perfectly placed Happy...

Maybe it’s just me, but these days it seems like a lot of video game protagonists have become — well, kind of a bunch of whiny d-bags. From Marcus Fenix’s incessant droning on about his old man, to...

SpellswordPlatform: iOSDeveloper: Everplay Interactive Release Date: 04/26/12Price: $0.99 Let’s be honest: It’s hard to talk about Spellsword without talking about Super Crate Box. But it’s not...

“My story is recalled and written from my perspective on the drum stool, which I’ve always felt was the best seat in the house. From there you can see...

They emerged in the throes of their twenties—homeless, booze-driven and in the shadow of a fever dream that compelled Eric Earley to drop school with the intention of chasing a sound that would...

Since signing with Merge Records late last year, Hospitality has been turning heads with their layered, synth and horn-laden take on pop music. While the band’s sound isn’t easily definable, the...

Built To Spill’s career has been an exercise in consistency. Over the past 20 years, the Boise indie rockers have churned out seven albums filled with melodic noise and hook-laden numbers. Along the...

Los Angeles group PAPA recorded a faithful cover of Nick Lowe’s hit “I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass” from 1978 album Jesus of Cool with a little help from their fellow Angelinos at Little Videos....

Carlos August Santana Alves was born on July 20, 1947 in Autlán de Navarro, Jalisco in southwestern region of Mexico. His family moved north to Tijuana when he was eight, and they crossed the border...