1.15.2013

It is 11 p.m. when Paul Kelly calls from Melbourne, Australia, and 7:01 a.m. when I pick up in New York City. It’s Sunday, Jan. 13, in both cities, and we are both exhausted. Kelly has just arrived...

Filmmaking partners Karin Hayes and Victoria Bruce have had their share of successes before. They sold their first film, The Kidnapping of Ingrid Betancourt, to HBO—the gold standard for indie...

Album: All the Times We HadFor Fans of: Delta Spirit, George Harrison, Cotton Jones What’s in a name? For Seattle’s Ivan & Alyosha, perhaps a bit more than they bargained for. Though they’ve been on...

What a gross prospect that a 30-years-going (and at least 20-years-miraculous) band like Hoboken’s finest have to contend with critical acclaim, that tempestuous thing that doubts itself every so...

Christopher Owens can’t outrun his backstory: Born into the Children of God cult and hauled to proselytize across Asia and Western Europe before fleeing as a teen and dead-ending in Texas. Stumbling...

Sean Lennon may be on to something here. Four years ago, the son of John and Yoko did his first soundtrack work for friend Jordan Galland on the director’s Shakespearean vampire satire Rosencrantz &...

“Don’t wanna talk now,” sings Free Energy frontman Paul Sprangers on “Time Goes On,” engulfed in bar-rock guitar crunch, echoed by solar-eclipse harmonies. “Ain’t nothin’ new to you.” Sounds about...

With a louche saunter and a thick, descending ripple of horn punctuations, Erin McKeown opens her first self-released album with a high-ironic colonic that skewers double-dealing public servants with...

When RCA threw $3 million behind A$AP Rocky, it wasn’t just investing in the Harlem rapper. It was investing in a whole A$AP empire, backing not only Rocky’s debut album but also his group label A$AP...

The grindhouse-meets-Dukes of Hazzard vibe of the new action comedy The Baytown Outlaws is instantly recognizable, and fits as comfortably as a weathered boot. With that vibe come certain...

The first season of Girls helped me realize the futility of weekly TV recaps. Like many HBO shows, Girls isn’t about the individual episode. If I had written a single review after watching the entire...

Downton Abbey‘s third season continues to be a structural marvel, and while that’s a fascinating thing to behold, I mostly mean that in a bad way. It has some obvious oddities, such as already...

Greg Wohlwend says he likes hard games. I’m not surprised, not after stressing my way through some of the more difficult puzzles in his game Hundreds. Games don’t often make me grind my teeth, but...

When we awarded Rayman Jungle Run our 2012 Mobile Game of the Year, it was for a very specific reason: Developer Pastagames understood the platform they were developing for. That same intuition shows...

The musician and artist M.I.A.’s new book, M.I.A., could be called an “artobiography.” It contains a few essays written by the author and a foreword from a friend, but it’s largely devoted to M.I.A.’s...

For the second year in a row, Paste teamed up with Sennheiser at the Newport Folk Festival to capture intimate recordings of some of our favorite artists. In 2012, we stepped it up a notch by...

Our cover story today is on Christopher Owens, longtime frontman for the energetic indie rock band band Girls. Owens releases his solo album Lysandre today, and in anticipation of the release we...

Singer-songwriter Erin McKeown is back with her seventh studio album Manifestra, and to celebrate the album’s release today she has also released the official video for her song “Proof.” The video is...