12.4.2012

Tom Shillue is just like any other working comedian. He wakes up in the morning, puts his pants on one leg at a time, and then starts working on the 12 albums he’s going to release over the next year....

As the fable goes, when English folk-rocker Jake Bugg’s high school buddies first heard him strumming his punky, acoustic originals, they practically in unison suggested the same career-launching...

“Whatever happened to Interpol?” you might be wondering, realizing that’s it’s been 10 full years since their elegantly opaque debut, Turn on the Bright Lights. Since their 2002 opening statement,...

The album doesn’t start all that differently from Animal Collective’s Centipede Hz actually—the electronic rhythm stabs that mark the opening “Apocalipsom A” are accompanied by cuts and growls and...

Greg Brown has been part of the American roots, folk and country scene for so long that it’s become easy to take him for granted—so easy as a matter of fact that somehow I’ve missed out on his music...

Eclipsing may be the debut album from duo Dan Donahue and Page Campbell, but this record is far from either’s first time at the rodeo. Longtime members of the Athens, Ga., music elite, they’ve made a...

Team Ghost’s Dead Film Star EP is a perfect example of all the potential for greatness on their upcoming debut album that the group has. The brainchild of co-founder and former M83 member Nicolas...

“Very few guys know me.” Uttered by Brad Pitt as gangster enforcer Jackie, these five words make for a terrifying threat—and a great movie line. And there’s plenty more where that came from in writer...

With The Fitzgerald Family Christmas, writer-director-star Edward Burns returns to the Irish-Catholic working-class milieu of his first two films, The...

Liz Lemon had the best wedding. You didn’t have to get dressed up to attend. You were spared having to dance to the Macarena or do the chicken dance. You didn’t even have to buy a gift—but if you...

Shut out the story. Ignore the yellow exclamation points that litter the map one at a time. Focus on conquering enemy compounds, slinking over hills and through tall grass, scoping out the fort below...

LegoLand exists. It’s a popular attraction. They ripped out the food court of a local mall to install a micro-sized one here in Atlanta. And Legos are just about building things. Lego doesn’t have...

This September, Paste teamed up with Horny Toad at the Telluride Blues & Brews festival to capture off-the-wall performances around town. Marchfourth...

For the second year in a row, Paste joined forces with Sennheiser to capture intimate performances at the Newport Folk Festival. This year, Sennheiser even offered attendees the unique opportunity to...

Hailing from Toronto, Great Bloomers have taken on the vibrancy of their hometown in their mix of straightforward rock and folk influences that culminates in a refreshingly smooth sound. Members...

4NRPlatform: iOSDeveloper: P1XL GamesRelease Date: 11/19/12Price: $0.99 “The path of life leads upward for the prudent, that he may turn away from Sheol beneath.” This is the Bible quote that...

Most art is static. Even though I may get something new out of a movie when I watch it the second or third time, the movie itself hasn’t changed, only my experience of it. The same goes for songs,...

Yunior de las Casas’s voice sounds like no other in contemporary fiction—peppered with profanity and slang, code-switching seamlessly between Spanish and English, the language of the streets and the...

Michigan alt-bluegrass group Frontier Ruckus recently announced their forthcoming album Eternity of Dimming. Their third full-length studio effort, the album is set for release on Jan. 29 via Quite...

An old country song gets sung by Jake Bugg and a few different things happen. They’re mostly good, but they do struggle to make you feel too good. He takes us walking down that “old country lane,” and...