12.26.2012

Car batteries. Coffins. Shoes. These three products are items where quality should not be ignored. Lead acid car batteries are vital in the cranking and performance of your vehicle; a good coffin with...

To make your television debut on the eve of your record’s release is a big deal, sure. To do so alongside The Roots—whose drummer serves as the co-founder of Okayplayer, the label you’re releasing...

A column questioning the assumptions of popular music The ongoing attack on irony reached a fever pitch on November 18 when the front page of the New York Times’ Sunday Review splashed the headline,...

My father owned two motorcycles when we were growing up. They weren’t anything too special. They weren’t souped up or power machines, by any stretch of the imagination, but he would back them out of...

Two winters ago, T.I. went away on a parole violation. His parting gift: No Mercy, an overstaffed slog that wasted Kanye West and Scarface in the first 10 minutes alone. Post-incarceration “atonement”...

First of all, there’s that cover. Even by the relaxed standards of The Rolling Stones (who unleashed Goat’s Head Soup and Love You Live on the world), that gorilla is pretty awful. They may have paid...

It’s strange to think how little time we’ve actually spent in Paddy’s Pub this year, considering for the first few years It’s Always Sunny’s pub was...

Sixteen years ago, President Bill Pullman showed himself to be a great leader. He united the world in our battle against the alien forces that could easily be defeated with computer viruses and a...

There’s a particular species of unease, a unique form of negative anticipation, generated when a beloved book is made into a film. The more “classic” the book, the greater the unease. This is hardly...

It’s a rare occasion when a major theatrical film is as timely as director Kathryn Bigelow’s widely acclaimed military drama, Zero Dark Thirty. Bigelow had been collaborating with her The Hurt Locker...

Judd Apatow might just be the dirtiest moralizer in all of Hollywood. His comedies boast some of the foulest language and humor of their genre, but, at the same time, they celebrate traditional...

As they say in sensationalist movie-poster-speak, “Tom Cruise is Jack Reacher.” Except in this case, that should perhaps be amended to “Tom Cruise is only kind of Jack Reacher.” The straight-laced...

If Halo is a rugged Walmart sweatshirt of a videogame and my game ZiGGURAT (buy now on iOS (please (it’s only a dollar (I am so hungry)))) is a holey vintage metal band T-shirt, Under Defeat is a...

Broadly speaking, board games are really just light role playing games. Monopoly simulates being a turn-of-the-century robber baron, while Risk asks you to step into the spurs of a primary-colored...

The Holy Or The Broken traces the history of a single song—“Hallelujah,” written by Leonard Cohen and originally recorded in 1984, with a chorus that invokes the Messiah and the holiday season and...

Folksy Canadian rock duo Whitehorse is set to release their second album The Fate of the World Depends On This Kiss in the U.S. on Jan. 15, 2013. In preparation, they’ve released a video highlighting...

Sweden’s Melpo Mene has garnered acclaim far beyond his country of origin with his unique brand of indie pop and the vivid imagery evoked by his sound. Mene has now released a video for “Ain’t Going...

Just as the holidays rolled around, John Roderick and Jonathan Coulton brought some much-welcomed holiday spirit to the Paste office. While Coulton sings about hoping to receive the elusive Atari...

Von Grey is a group composed of four Atlanta-based sisters. Each member has been singing and making music since elementary school, so it’s no surprise that their well-honed harmonies seem to come...