8.21.2012

Hometown: Louisville, Kentucky Album: We Don’t NeedFor Fans Of: Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Fiona Apple, Abigail Washburn Cheyenne Mize didn’t necessarily dream of becoming a songwriter in the spotlight,...

Hometown: Athens, Ga.Band members: Ethan Payne, Asher Payne, Nathan Thompson, Ryan Monahan, Patrick FergusonAlbum: FrightenedFor fans of: Explosions in the Sky, My Bloody Valentine, Sigur Ros People...

Hometown: New Orleans/LondonBand Members: Jneiro Jarel, DOOMAlbum: Key To The KuffsFor Fans Of: J Dilla, Ghostface Killah, TV On The Radio In 2010, iconic underground rapper DOOM (formerly known as MF...

Hometown: Auckland, New ZealandMembers: Kody Nielson (keyboards, drums, vocals), Bic Runga (keyboards, guitar, drums, vocals), Michael Logie (bass)Album: Electric HawaiiFor Fans of: Animal Collective,...

Canadian quintet The Deep Dark Woods isn’t your everyday alt-country folk group. With singer and guitarist Ryan Boldt’s full and rich voice expertly balanced with simple, melodic rhythms, it’s easy to...

Hometown: Milwaukee, Wis.Band Members: Eric Hillman, Brian Holl, Nathan Reich, Nate Babbs, Clayton FikeAlbum: Anywhere But Where I AmFor Fans Of: Lost in the Trees, Bowerbirds, Plants and Animals...

Hometown: Bowling Green, Ky.Band Members: Tiger Merritt, Travis Goodwin, Tres CokerAlbum: Expanding AnywayFor Fans Of: Modest Mouse, bourbon “We were in a bar in Nashville and we were just kind of...

Hometown: Somerville, Mass.Members: Dwight Hutchenson (vocals/guitar), Jon Christensen (guitar), John Herter (drums) and Shaun Curran (bass)Album: Electric ScenesFor Fans Of: Spoon, Walkmen,...

Hometown: Leefdaal, BelgiumAlbum: Selah SueFor Fans Of: Adele, Amy Winehouse, Lauryn Hill As Belgian neo-soul diva Selah Sue recalls, her childhood was a deliriously happy one. Even with the awkward...

Hometown: Detroit, MichiganAlbum: XXXFor Fans Of: OutKast, A-Trak Detroit rapper Danny Brown’s most eye-opening moment as a student happened outside the walls of a classroom. That moment—some...

Hometown: Los Angeles Band Members: Michael Garner (vocals, keyboards), Dan Chang (vocals, guitars), Matthew Frankel (percussion, vocals) Album: Operating EP For Fans Of: Death Cab for Cutie, Guster,...

Hometown: LondonAlbum: Is Your Love Big Enough?For Fans of: Corinne Bailey Rae, Joss Stone, Janelle Monáe London native Lianne La Havas owes much of her debut album, Is Your Love Big Enough?, to a...

Hometown: Seattle, Wash. Band Members: Reed Juenger, Jordan Koplowitz, Tom Eddy (vocals), Jarred Katz (drummer)Album: The Palace GardenFor Fans Of: LCD Soundsystem, Tanlines, Passion Pit Broodingly...

Hometown: Bloomington, Ind.Members: Bryan Enas, Douglass EnasAlbum: Temporary RoomFor Fans of: The Cure, Joy Division, The Jesus and Mary Chain We may never know exactly who funded Stagnant Pools’...

Hometown: Ypsilanti, MichiganBand Members: Ben Collins, Aaron Diehl, Leah Diehl, Album: Blonde AlbumFor Fans Of: Ben Folds Five, The Blow, Michigan Beer It’s best to avoid the “C” word around Leah...

Hometown: London via Etobicoke, OntarioMember: Al SpxAlbum: I Predict a Graceful Expulsion For Fans Of: Bill Callahan, Mahalia Jackson, Anna Calvi A husky yet soothing voice echoes throughout the...

Unless you’ve been watching AMC’s web series The Trivial Pursuits of Arthur Banks (and if you’re not, you should be), Fabianne Therese’s name and face might not be familiar to you. But 2012 has been a...

Hometown: Los AngelesFor fans of: Mad Decent, Harmony Korine, A.G. Rojas It’s not often that your interview subject has a run-in with the cops while you’re trying to interview him. Then again, most...

Hometown: AtlantaNext Book: Sky Saw (December 2012)For Fans Of: David Foster Wallace, Dennis Cooper, Gordon Lish When 33-year-old Georgia-born Blake Butler wakes in the morning, he never faces...

Hometown: Leverts, Mass.Books: The New Valley [Grove Press 2009] For Fans Of: Cormac McCarthy, Anthony Doerr, Denis Johnson, Toni Morrison Josh Weil starts his day with requirements: 1. Rise to write...

Recent years in pop music have been characterized by their throwback quality, with ’80s New Wave synth popping up around every corner, making contemporary tunes sometimes indistinguishable from the...

I cannot tell if the man-woman hollering in “Her Fantasy” says “compliments,” “confidence” or “coffee beans,” but I’m really rooting for the latter as they are the sole source of my energy to write...

The first time I heard The Darkness was in late 2003 while driving along a foggy mountain road in northern Spain. The radio was low in the background as I focused to avoid hitting the inordinate...

After her marriage and her band broke up, Shannon McArdle quickly responded with Summer of the Whore, an appropriately intense album. That album was an impressive but heavy listen, its catharsis...

The beautifully crafted new stop-motion film ParaNorman opens with two important pieces of information. First, we observe our young hero as he watches a B-zombie flick, complete with choppy edits and...

Economist Peter Navarro tries his hand at documentary filmmaking with mixed results in the provocative Death by China. As a wake-up call for Americans to pay greater attention to their nation’s...

The Odd Life of Timothy Green is an odd, at-times moving meditation on parenthood—the desire to be a parent and the challenges of being one—wrapped in...

The Revenant, meaning “one that returns to life after death or a long absence,” is an apt title for this horror/comedy from writer/director Kerry Prior. Having been shot in 2008 and shown at a few...

Meet the Fokkens is the documentary by Gabrielle Provaas and Rob Shröder about Louise and Martine Fokkens, 69-year-old identical twins who have been working as prostitutes in Amsterdam’s Red Light...

In Why Stop Now, Jesse Eisenberg plays Eli, an outcast who is every inch as nerdy and bad with women as he is remarkably talented (so, in terms of roles played by Eisenberg—the usual). In Phil Dorling...

“Buyout” begins with one of Breaking Bad’s most haunting openings to date. Following the twisted ending from last week’s “Dead Freight," Walter and his crew have to dispose of the evidence and body of...

To paraphrase Woody Allen (in a comparison I’m sure its subject will enjoy), “I don’t think [Aaron Sorkin’s] evil. I think the worst you can say about him is that, basically, he’s an underachiever.”...

There is a kind of world-building that I think of as “Tolkienism”. It’s mythic and Catholic, based on mining canonical texts for meaning and avoiding contradictions in order to create internal...

Knock, knock! Who’s there?Referencing Doctor! Referencing Doctor Who? Among the dangers of referential humor is the feeling like I’ve heard all this...

Random HeroesPlatform: iOS (also available on PC)* *Developer:* Ravenous Games *Release Date:* 8/16/2012 *Price:** $0.99 Random Heroes is a side scrolling platformer/shoot-em-up that has found its way...

Fear Of Music, the name of both the latest work from Jonathan Lethem and the Talking Heads album, comes as the most recent release from the 33 1/3 series. In this series, each book (30,000 to 40,000...

On June 13, Louisville’s Cheyenne Marie Mize brought a stripped-down take on songs from her latest album, this year’s We Don’t Need EP, to Aloft Hotel’s Charlotte, N.C., location. Mize, who’s...

This year, HGTV partnered with Paste as we headed down to Gulf Shores, Ala., for what we’d considered the best Hangout Music Fest to date. Beyond watching shows from some of our favorite artists, we...

For the second consecutive year, Sennheiser and Paste teamed up to film and record artists at the Newport Folk Festival. This year, we stepped things up at the Paste Ruins by offering festival...

San Fransisco dwellers Eux Autres have come a long way in almost a decade, transforming from a brother/sister duo into a trio that has released three full-lengths, two EPs and five singles. Their...

Next week, Los Lobos plan to release an expanded reissue of their seminal album, Kiko. To mark the album’s 20th anniversary, the Californian group put out a version of the record which includes Kiko...

One of the most enigmatic songwriters of our time, Van Morrison first gained recognition as the lead singer of the Northern Irish band Them, writing their seminal 1964 hit “Gloria.” When Morrison...