5.15.2012

Anxiety is the fizzy new Modular sophomore set from Ladyhawke, the nom de plume of one quirky New Zealand keyboardist/guitarist named Pip Brown. And the 10-track album opens with the synth-buttressed...

Hometown: Minneapolis, Minn.Members: Channy Leaneagh (vocals), Ben Ivascu (percussion), Drew Christopherson (percussion), Chris Bierden (bass)Album: Give You The GhostFor Fans Of: Gayngs, The xx,...

“She’s wanted to be a professional singer ever since she could speak,” says Hannah Layfield’s mom, Tammy. But when Hannah was five-years-old, the music seemed to stop. She was diagnosed with Acute...

The Character-Content Divide “Let me start at the very beginning. I did a vodka ad, that’s the first important thing. A big vodka company wanted to do a prestige ad, and they wanted to get Noël Coward...

Psst! Hey, you, buddy? Yeah, you, the guy in the green shirt, come on over here. So, you look lost. What are you up to tonight? What are you looking for? It seems like you could use a little guidance,...

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...

Ufabulum abandons Squarepusher’s usual 1 : 1 ratio of electronic : jazz in favor of 1 : 1, electronic : space adventure. I cannot find in any press release or quote anywhere confirming that Tom...

Dust off your pagers and dial-up internet connections. On AlunaGeorge’s You Know You Like It, the nostalgia crescendos to a fever pitch so deafening, you can make out every vestige of circa-1999 R&B...

It’s been five years since Carina Round released her last full album—2007’s Slow Motion Addict— but the L.A.-via-England singer/songwriter hasn’t been idle in the interim. She released the Things You...

J Mascis’ new side project Heavy Blanket is packaged with a backstory, one that began in the summer of 1984 involving a hero who chose to shed the elitism surrounding his upbringing. Together with his...

Coming off their much-lauded Teen Dream, indie-pop duo Beach House return from two years of touring with their highly anticipated fourth full-length album, Bloom. It’s another solid output from the...

The prospect of Shirley Manson singing “This Little Light of Mine” certainly has wicked potential. The Garbage frontwoman folds that child’s hymn into the final minutes of “Beloved Freak,” the last...

Hazy synth-pop trios may be a dime a dozen, but there’s something really special when an album like Violens’ True finds its way into the world. From the very first note of the Brooklyn-based band’s...

A Bag of Hammers is like the funny guy at parties. He’s not perfect, maybe a bit of a lush and flabby around the middle, but you love having him around. The feature debut from Director Brian Crano...

Tim Burton and Johnny Depp had made seven films together prior to the release of this week’s Dark Shadows. When Burton’s expert lens found Depp’s fantastic acting, they produced some of the most...

Headhunters is a shocking, macabre suspense thriller/action/drama/semi-slasher hit all in one. Blood and gore freely abound, but this is no Kill Bill: Vol. 1. Director Morten Tyldum’s characters are...

Director Joe Berlinger’s fascinating, immersive documentary Under African Skies celebrates the 25th anniversary of Paul Simon’s landmark Graceland album and also examines the firestorm of controversy...

Director David Mackenzie’s rock ’n’ roll rom-com Tonight You’re Mine is a prime example of a movie whose setting must compensate for an absence of any actual merit. While Mackenzie’s story of boy-girl...

In the pilot of Awake, there’s a moment that defines Michael Britten’s view of his new reality. He wakes up and can’t find his wife or son. Britten freaks out. He screams, he cries, he even gets a...

“Paradigms of Human Memory,” Community‘s flashback episode that never went back to anything the audience had seen before, was one of the best parts of last season. It was a concept episode that felt...

Mad Men‘s sort of thrown subtlety out the window for much of this season, and it’s been easy to overlook when the content we’re being beaten over the head with is so clever and entertaining. But, much...

Week to week, Touch has been in this compelling struggle. The story of the main characters Martin and his son Jake are interesting enough to check in once every week, but the stories surrounding them...

For this week’s Modern Family episode, the Dunphy and Pritchett clans spend the entire day together at a Southern California theme park. We’ll give you one guess which park. Hint: It’s not Knott’s...

It’s been a mere eight months since Jess moved in with three guys, awkwardly changing their lives and being generally “adorkable.” Since then, series creator Elizabeth Meriwether has turned the cast...

“To us it almost looks like magic. It’s not though. It’s just tech.” -Jessica Holt Let’s get one thing clear off the bat: this was a very good episode of Fringe. The problem, of course, is that this...

Detours can prove to be warranted in a drama, or they can be a distraction. This episode offered a mixture of both. The Killing has done a fair job at balancing the multiple storylines of an...

Wait for it… And wait for it we did. How I Met Your Mother has had its ups and downs throughout the years, but luckily the seventh season finally provided laugh-out-loud moments coupled with...

In Esi Edugyan’s novel Half-Blood Blues, the narrator’s inventive and free-flowing descriptions of jazz mimic the music itself. For readers unfamiliar with jazz or unimpressed by it, the explosion of...

Cleveland rockers J. Roddy Walston and the Business have honed their musicianship over the years by capturing an energy and charisma that harkens back...

Music is in Barbara and Ethan Gruska’s blood. For generations there have been composers and jazz drummers, so it was pretty easy to guess these siblings would turn into a dynamic duo who produces...

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...

The Southern electronic afro-pop quartet have created quite a buzz these past months leading up to the release of their debut album Body Faucet, produced by Ben Allen (Animal Collective, Deerhunter,...

One of the most anticipated and ultimately satisfying run of shows ever to occur on the Fillmore West stage occurred in March of 1971, when Bill Graham presented three consecutive nights featuring...