8.14.2012

Don’t use the S word around the members of Divine Fits. The band may feature two of the most charismatic indie-rock frontmen working today—namely, Britt Daniel of Spoon and Dan Boeckner of Wolf Parade...

Start talking about “the blues,” and for most people, a series of familiar images come to mind: shot glasses, neon lights, pork pie hats, and sweaty-yet-still-distinguished-looking men and women...

Sure, it’s a Jetsons/Flintstones dichotomy. But in music’s new high-tech, digital-download age—when kids can record a debut disc on their bedroom-based computer, overnight—there’s still something to...

Julie Delpy didn’t stalk Chris Rock. Honestly. “I like observing people,” she explains, “and how they behave and their body language. And, I bumped into him after the Oscar lunch when he was hosting...

“The Story of the Forgotten Genius” is such a well-worn formula for music documentaries that it was already being parodied more than three decades ago in This is Spinal Tap. In Searching for Sugar...

If the zombie survival game Day Z had a musical counterpart, it would be black metal. While you won’t find muscle-bound high-school dropouts painted...

When you’ve been as obsessed with a band like Belle & Sebastian as long as I have, and when that obsession proves unshakable, it’s inevitable that you...

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...

The greatness of Kevin Barnes, whether you want to believe it, has always been in his words. As the stage outfits and production have gotten more and more flowery, elaborate and extensive, everything...

On their first full-length, Wild Cub sound much more experienced than one would expect a band that has been together just under a year to, as the duo officially came together last November. But a...

Tribute albums always sound a little better in theory—sometimes even that’s not the case—than they actually are once put into practice. Take a beloved band and a seemingly random collection of artists...

Janka Nabay is from Sierra Leone, a country most people associate almost exclusively with diamonds, oppression and Kanye West. He plays bubu, a style...

Charlie Mars spent the better part of the last decade nestled in the comfy confines of Oxford, Miss. serenading swooning Ole Miss coeds with a winning smile and seductive pop songs. Not bad work if...

As the son of James Taylor and Carly Simon, you’d think that Ben Taylor would have been strumming an acoustic guitar right out of the womb. But despite his musical ancestry, the younger Taylor was...

A matchless New York romantic comedy with language full of smarts and crudeness, 2 Days in New York brings audiences a hilarious 48-hour portrait of an atypical modern family. The sequel to Julie...

There’s something depressing about movies about politics, even ones as light-hearted as The Campaign tries to be. Corruption is apparently so pervasive that it’s the fallback narrative for politically...

Total Recall, director Len Wiseman’s remake of Paul Verhoeven’s 1990 quasi-classic, Schwarzenegger-bearing sci-fi film, combines the rush (and perhaps, for some, the occasional fatigue) of near...

With all due respect to Fernando Meirelles, the director behind the terrific 2002 gangster flick, City of God, the Brazilian film maker’s new film is so bad that it almost feels like a sin to take the...

A schizophrenic hybrid of tee-hee sex comedy and serious relationship drama, Hope Springs finds itself hopelessly adrift in a non-committal middle ground. David Frankel’s film concerns the...

Sweet and simple, almost to a fault, Goats tells a familiar story of a child at the center of a bitter feud between his long-since divorced parents. In his debut film, director Christopher Neil plays...

Let’s start with the safe claim that family dynamics are one of the most deeply felt parts of anyone’s life. It’s biologically ingrained in us to not only need parents, but to want to need them, too....

One of The Newsroom’s many unique traits and challenges is how incredibly dense the individual episodes are. Even for the network that produces and airs narratively complex series such as Boardwalk...

What’s great about a show like Futurama, which isn’t beholden to any particular science-fiction ethos, is that it can encompass pretty much any contradictions it would like without anyone particularly...

“I’ve been around long enough to know there are two kinds of robberies: the ones that get away with it and the ones that leave witnesses.” This season of Breaking Bad keeps getting bigger and bolder...

When Hell on Wheels debuted, it had the privilege of appearing on AMC, a network with quite a pedigree. The show had a premise which, on paper, seemed like other high-quality AMC shows: a man trying...

How do you have a season finale for a show that is essentially a parody of talk shows? Talk shows never seem to have endings, unless you’re Conan O’Brien, and they seem like a never-ending stream of...

The episode begins with the usual Grimm carnage, this time in the form of a blood-soaked shipping crate aboard a boat in Portland’s harbor. Security guards find mangled corpses and French writing in...

10000000Platform: iOSDeveloper: EightyEight GamesRelease Date: 07/25/2012Price: $1.99 At this point, match-3 games are like zombie games: There’d better be a damned good hook if you want me to pay...

To approach Jonathan Franzen in 2012 is, for the book reviewer (which almost invariably connotes an aspiring writer), a daunting task. We know that Franzen’s 2001 satire of the generational divide,...

Dystopian fever grips our world. The Hunger Games movie opened to generally copious praise and astonishing box office numbers—grossing $153 million opening weekend and nearly $680 million at this...

With Alanis Morissette’s new album, Havoc and Bright Lights coming out this month, we took back a look at some of her classic performances dating back to the ’90s. Watch the Canadian pop star perform...

On July 3, Canadian singer/songwriter Jeremy Fisher released his fifth full-length album, Mint Juleps. The record consists of 12 stark, heartfelt acoustic tracks, some of which are covers—including...

Nude Beach’s track “Walkin’ Down My Street” is the perfect kind of song to fill the noisy rooms of a kegger house party, and the video depicts that accordingly. There’s something to be said for videos...

Bruce Springsteen’s career has been characterized by its versatility and longevity, swinging from soulful introspection to plugged-in arena rock, group to solo efforts and widespread touring to...