8.28.2012

When Matthew Dear isn’t working on his experimental pop music, which is pretty rare, one might find him walking his dog, spending time at the barn in upstate New York that he and his wife are...

A pair of Fleet Foxes teams with some of its oldest, dearest friends to create an otherworldly panorama of sound In the middle of the last decade, future Poor Moon frontman Christian Wargo suddenly...

Over understated, percussive acoustic guitar and the barely-there, spectral drone of an ancient organ, the voice of Rickie Lee Jones seeps like water from a cracked glass—slowly, delicately, trickling...

Some people pay money for videogame soundtracks. I spent most of my life ignoring them as much as possible. If I ignored the music to Dyad and Sound...

What you’re about to read is an essay that we wrote about Wye Oak almost five years ago. We feel like there’s still something to it, though the incredible duo has shifted themselves somewhat. We leave...

I beat Dark Souls. I beat Demon Souls as well. I have the trophies to prove it. Makes me a “hardcore” gamer, right? Not really. The Souls series consists of my two favorite games of the HD generation,...

“America” is not an easy word to digest. It can be framed in many ways and evoke many feelings. Patriotism, fear, passion, injustice, pride, home, separation, control, liberty, freedom, doubt—America...

The phrase “it’s a grower, not a show-er,” might not be one you’ve heard applied to music before, but in the case of Minus the Bear’s latest album, it’s appropriate. The sometimes indie...

Wild Nothing brainiac Jack Tatum nailed a solid formula with his project’s debut effort Gemini. With Nocturne, he takes his tiny, colorful hammer to create little cavities and imperfections that...

Folksinger Caroline Herring has quietly but steadily been building a canon. It began back with her debut record, Twilight, in 2001. From the start she received many accolades, including “Best New...

This guy’s a big story in beating rap’s merciless turnover rate. I loved a song by him—Playaz Circle’s “Duffle Bag Boy”—before I or much of his current audience knew who he was. 2 Chainz used to be...

Charlie Chaplin once said: “To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain and play with it.” Mike Birbiglia takes the pain of a struggling comic, an unsure boyfriend and a scared sleep disorder...

Writer-codirector-star Dax Shepard loves cars and loves his girlfriend Kristen Bell (possibly in that order), so he made a movie about them and invited his buddies to help him out. The result is Hit...

The cinematic dream team of director and cinematographer Ron Fricke and producer Mark Magidson placed the bar high when they set out to make Samsara. A visual montage of portraits and landscapes...

On paper, General Education looks like a passable summer teen comedy. Written by newcomers Elliot Feld, Jaz Kalkat and Tom Morris, and directed by Morris, the film seemingly has the right ingredients:...

“Looking for Liz/Lilly Changes” was, as the title implies, such a bifurcated episode that it’s difficult to treat it as one entity, especially since one half was so significantly better than the...

“If you believe that there is hell, I don’t know if you are into that. But we’re, we’re all pretty much going there right? Well I’m not going to lie down until I get there.” During the intense...

If you’re a fan of closure, then, boy, was the season one finale of The Newsroom for you. Using Sorkin Magic, every character was able to resolve every significant storyline that cropped up this...

By now, it’s a pretty straightforward formula: Take a famous location, find a few violent movies that were set there, and use the resulting aesthetic as the basis for an “open-world action game.” (A...

ORC: VengeancePlatform: iOSDeveloper: Big Cave GamesRelease Date: 7/25/12Price: $2.99 Maybe I don’t have a very sophisticated palate, but I can’t really tell the difference between regular Coke and...

Picking cotton the old fashioned way—by hand—was damned hard and unpleasant work. For the late Charlie Louvin, picking country music and making a living at it was hard as hell too. He did both and...

On June 14, singer/songwriter Dar Williams played an impressive hourlong set live at Aloft’s North Charleston, S.C., location. Williams, who recently released her ninth studio record, In The Time Of...

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...

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...

Memphis-based Lucero unveiled the official music video for their song “Women & Work” from the album of the same name, which was released earlier this year. Although the band’s been making music for 14...

The Raveonettes will be releasing their seventh full-length album, Observator, on Sept. 11 via Vice Records. The record was made in Los Angeles’ Sunset Sound Studios with the help of producer Richard...

Rosco Bandana, the first and so far only band signed to newly-minted Hard Rock Records (as in the restaurant chain) have released a new song, “Woe Is Me,” the first single from their upcoming debut...