Best of What's Next

Cover Story tUnE-yArDs Transition with a Capital "T" By Bonnie Stiernberg, Photo b…

Hometown: Oakland, Calif.Album: w h o k i l lSole Permanent Member: Merrill GarbusFor Fans Of: Dirty Projectors, The Books, Animal Collective “This is Merrill.” Merrill Garbus’ voice is calm and clear, but as the tUnE-yArDs frontwoman greets me on the phone from her Oakland, Calif. studio, I’m briefly taken aback as I realize I was half-expecting her to yell at me.If you’re familiar with the 32-year-old’s work, you’ll know this isn’t as unreasonable as it sounds. Although she can do ethereal and understated better than most, Garbus is truly in her element when she’s belting, her hurricane of a voice ripping...

Features Typhoon Going Big By Josh Jackson, Phot…

Hometown: Portland, Ore.Members: Kyle Morton (vocals, guitar), Toby Yuuki Tanabe (bass, vocals), Tyler Allen Ferrin (trumpet, vocals), Devin Gallagher (percussion, glockenspiel, vocals), David Patrick...

Features Kopecky Family Band Close Relations By Allie Conti

Hometown: Nashville, TennesseeMembers: Kelsey Kopecky (vocals, keys), Gabe Simon (vocals/guitar), Corey Oxendine (bass), Markus Midkiff (cello), Steven Holmes (violin), David Krohn (drums)Album: The...

Features Nikki Lane Mindin' the Store By Stephen M. Deusner…

Hometown: Greenville, S.C.Album: Walk of ShameFor Fans Of: Jenny Lewis, Neko Case, Tift Merritt Nikki Lane was a born entrepreneur. As a child growing up in South Carolina, she would go door to door...

Features Generationals Buddy Music By Ryan Reed, Photo b…

Hometown: New OrleansBand Members: Ted Joyner (vocals, guitar), Grant Widmer (guitars, vocals)Album: Actor-CasterFor Fans Of: Apples In Stereo, Dr. Dog, The Strokes New Orleans indie-pop duo...

Features Chris Bathgate Choking Down a Salt Year By Max Blau

Hometown: Ann Arbor, Mich.Album: Salt YearFor Fans Of: Frightened Rabbit, Alexi Murdoch, Josh Ritter “I’m just choking down a salt year / and sugar’s all I’ve longed for.” —“Salt Year” When Chris...

Features Carl Broemel MMJ Guitarist Steps Out By Geoffrey Himes, Ph…

Hometown: Nashville, TN Album: All Birds SayFor Fans Of: Low Anthem, Andrew Bird, Lindsey Buckingham “It’s strange,” guitarist Carl Broemel says from the back of the My Morning Jacket tour bus as it...

Features Ryan Driver Finding His Voice By Andrea Kszystyniak

Hometown: TorontoAlbum: Who’s Breathing?For Fans Of: John Martyn, Brett Dennen, JJ Cale Before singer/songwriter Ryan Driver could release his own albums, he first had to learn to like the sound of...

Features Lydia Loveless Hardscrabble Youth By Joel Oliphint

Hometown: Columbus, OhioAlbum: Indestructible MachineFor Fans Of: Those Darlins, Neko Case, Loretta Lynn My mama said hard livin’ is catching up to me I’m afraid to look in the mirror cuz I know I’m...

Features Spirit Family Reunion Blurring Past and Pre… By Jeff Giles

Hometown: Brooklyn, NYAlbum: Spirit Family ReunionBand Members: Nick Panken (vocals, acoustic guitar), Maggie Carson (vocals, 5 string banjo), Stephen Weinheimer (vocals, bass drum, washboard,...

Features Correatown California Dreaming By China Reevers

Hometown: Los Angeles, Calif. Album: PleiadesFor Fans of: Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, PJ Harvey, Fiona Apple The members of Correatown are like a family, and as they greet me with hugs and warm...

Features Spirits and the Melchizedek C… By Nathan Spicer

Hometown: AtlantaAlbum: We Are Here To Save YOU!Members: Jason Elliott (vocals, guitar), Chris Case (keyboards), Joe McNeill (bass), Bryan Fielden (drums)For Fans Of: The Besnard Lakes, Deerhunter,...

Features The Bright Light Social Hour No More Cookies By Tim Basham

Hometown: Austin, TexasAlbum: The Bright Light Social HourMembers: Curtis Roush (guitar, vocals), A.J. Vincent (keyboards, vocals), Jack O’Brien...

Features Radical Dads Heart the '90s By Andrea Kszystyniak…

Hometown: New York City Album: Mega Rama Members: Lindsay Baker (vocals/guitar), Robbie Guertin (vocals/drums) and Chris Diken (guitar) For Fans Of: Sleater-Kinney, Dinosaur Jr., Yo La Tengo The name...

Features MyNameIsJohnMichael Back to New Orleans By Nathan Spicer

Hometown: New OrleansBand Members: John Michael Rouchell (vocals), Joe Bourgeois (bass), Neilson Bernard (drums), (Jeremy ‘Mojo’ Phipps (trombone), Terence Green (trombone/baritone), Phil Breen...

Features Roach Gigz San Francisco Swagger By M.T. Richards

Hometown: San Francisco Albums: Roachy Balboa 2, B!tch, I’m a Player For Fans Of: Mac Dre, E-40, Lil Wayne Roach Gigz is not a household name. He tries not to let on, but it’s clear that his lack of...

Features Emperor X The Mad Scientist By Ryan Wasoba

Hometown: Jacksonville, Fla.Album: Western TeleportMember: Chad Matheny (vocals/guitar)For Fans Of: Daniel Johnston, Danielson Famile, The Mountain Goats As anybody who has either intentionally...

Features Pistol Annies Cocked and Loaded By Stephen M. Deusner…

Hometowns: Lindale, Texas; Knoxville, Tenn.; Nashville, Tenn.Members: Miranda Lambert (vocals/guitar), Ashley Monroe (vocals/guitar), Angeleena Presley (vocals/guitar)Album: Hell on HeelsFor Fans Of:...

Features Gardens & Villa Will Camp For Music By Andrea Kszystyniak

Hometown: Santa Barbara, Calif.Album: Gardens & VillaMembers: Chris Lynch (vocals/guitar/flute), Adam Rasmussen (keys/vocals), Shane McKillop (bass), Levi Hayden (drums), Dustin Ineman (percussion)For...

Features The Lumineers Western Hospitality By Alexandra Fletcher

Hometown: DenverMembers: Wesley Schultz (vocals/guitar/piano), Jeremiah Fraites (drums, yells), Neyla Peckarek (cello, piano)For Fans Of: The Head and the Heart, Ryan Adams, The Avett BrothersWesley...

Features Tig Notaro Straight-Faced Renais… By Austin L. Ray

Hometown: Los AngelesAlbum: Good OneFor Fans Of: Zach Galifianakis, Steven Wright, Hannibal Buress Tig Notaro delivers her jokes in a quintessential deadpan. She can discuss anything—from vomiting in...

Features Evan Glodell And the Bellflower Fa… By Michael Dunaway

The best recommendations at Sundance always seem to come from random strangers, and they usually come on one of the shuttle buses festivalgoers spend so much time on. This year, someone described...

Features Tom Carson Pam-American By Stephen M. Deusner

Poor young Pamela Buchanan is more a prop than a character in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age novel The Great Gatsby, trotted out by her parents like a particularly rare Tiffany lamp or a yellow Rolls...

Columns From the Editor The Best of What's Next By Josh Jackson

The whole reason we started Paste magazine nearly 10 years ago was to help people discover new bands, so I’ve always loved putting together our Best of What’s Next issue. We began this tradition back...

Columns Why So Silent, Jens? Thoughts on the concl… By Shane Ryan

Somewhere in New Jersey last month, in the midst of a long car trip, I confronted a great mystery: What the hell is Jens Lekman doing on my iPod? It wasn’t a matter of taste. He had every right to...

Columns The Origin of Song The Wailers and "Get … By Denise Sullivan

“How long must I protest the same thing?” asked Bob Marley in 1978 about the song he and Peter Tosh made famous with the Wailers. “I sing ‘Get Up Stand Up’, and up till now, people don’t get up,” he...

Columns Mountain Man Daytrotter Session By Sean Moeller, Illu…

Hometown: Bennington, Vt.Members: Molly Erin Sarle, Alexandra Sauser-Monnig, Amelia Randall MeathFor Fans Of: The Roches, Gillian Welch, Alison Krauss What you really want to do—after listening to...

Columns Robert Ellis Daytrotter Session By Sean Moeller, Illu…

Hometown: Houston, TexasAlbum: PhotographsFor Fans Of: Kris Kristofferson, The Old 97’s, America With “Good Intentions,” Texan musician Robert Ellis has written a song that crackles with the kind of...

Columns Letters To The Editor By Paste Readers

Send your letters to feedback@pastemagazine.com and service concerns to mplayer@pastemagazine.com. CLARIFYING REVIEW TYPE I love the new player—very innovative. One very small suggestion: In the...

Reviews: music Guy Clark Songs and Stories By Holly Gleason

Guy Clark’s always been charming, and that easy graciousness can obscure the exacting quality of his writing. Few can split a moment open with such exquisite detail or emotional nuance, and, in the...

Reviews: music The War on Drugs Slave Ambient By Luke Winkie

When all is said and done, Kurt Vile’s exit from The War on Drugs might be the best thing that’s happened to the band. Sure his songwriting talent can’t be understated, but the long-haired, post...

Reviews: movies The Whistleblower Directed by Larysa Ko… By Jonah Flicker

The Whistleblower skirts the line between political thriller, conspiracy picture and melodrama, but it does it well, building the right amount of tension and intrigue as it gallops along. The setting...

Reviews: movies The Devil's Double Directed by Lee Tamahori By Kiera Scholten

Murder, kidnapping, rape, torture. Those are the sadistic sports that amuse Uday Hussein, Saddam’s psychotic son.Latif Yahia is the Iraqi soldier who finds himself entangled in the same grotesque...

Reviews: movies Rise of Planet of the Apes Directed by Rupert Wyatt By Jonathan Hickman

Franklin J. Schaffner’s original Planet of the Apes is more highly regarded now than it was back in 1968. And even though the special effects and the...

Reviews: movies The Future Directed by Miranda July By Maggie Coughlan

Miranda July’s penchant for the peculiar hasn’t suffered in the six years between Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) and her latest film, The Future. But it’s more than the peculiar that keeps...

Reviews: movies The Guard Directed by John Mich… By Ryan Carey

To speak in stereotype for just a brief moment (as Sergeant Gerry Boyle does frequently in this overseas cop-flick), the Irish are the most intense group of people yet concocted. They are...

Reviews: movies Honest Man The Life of R. Budd D… By Christine N. Ziemba

On the morning of Jan. 22, 1987, Pennsylvania State Treasurer R. Budd Dwyer, called a press conference. Most of the news crews and staff gathered in the room had assumed that Dwyer—who appeared...

Reviews: tv Breaking Bad Bullet Points (4.04) By Brent Koepp

“How did this all get so screwed up?” Walter White asks in the poignantly titled episode: “Bullet Points.” The episode in many respects, was the most introspective episode of the series since the “The...

Reviews: tv Futurama Mobius Dick By Sean Gandert

There’s a type of Futurama episode that I’d describe as taking whatever random concept the show’s writers are currently interested in, then throwing it into the Futurama universe and seeing what...

Reviews: books And the Band Played On Politics, People, and… By Steve Weinberg

In 1987, a book carrying the title And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic reached retail stores. Few of the people involved in the book’s acquisition, production and marketing...

Video Kopecky Family Band SXSW Set By Max Blau

If you want to know why the Kopecky Family Band is being featured in this Best Of What’s Next mPlayer issue, look no further than this past March, where they performed at our Paste Party in Austin,...

Video Robert Ellis Live From Lake Michigan By Max Blau

When I picked up Robert Ellis after a radio gig in Chicago, Ill. last month, I was initially surprised that this was the young man behind the recent record Photographs. For anyone who’s heard the...

Video Typhoon Live From Newport By Max Blau

The Paste ruins could barely hold this 13-person ensemble when we gathered them together to record a song during Newport Folk Festival. We only managed to actually fit 10 of Typhoon’s 13 members into...

Video MyNameIsJohnMichael Live From Paste By Audio by Max Blau,…

You all know the drill with SXSW. Between the official showcases and the unofficial day parties, thousands of bands head down to Austin, Texas every year for the weeklong festival hoping to be heard,...

Video Mountain Man Live From Newport By Max Blau, Video Ed…

Minutes before hopping onstage with Middle Brother at this year’s Newport Folk Festival, pastoral harmonizers Mountain Man spent some time in the Paste ruins where they performed two short and sweet...

Reviews: books Graphic Novels & Comic Books Round-Up By Hillary Brown and …

Each week, Paste reviews the most intriguing comic books, graphic novels, graphic memoirs and other illustrated books. The Lives of Sacco and...

8.9.2011

tUnE-yArDs, Typhoon, Kopecky Family Band, Nikki Lane, Generationals, …