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Band of the Week: Bombadil
"He’s a whimsical dude, he lives off in the forest in his own world and he plays music all day unaffected by all that is going on around him," explains Bombadil guitarist Bryan Rahija. "We just liked his place in the world." He's speaking of his band's namesake...
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The Nature of Mother
Mother's Day is an ideal time for listening to the sons of popular music riffing on one of humanity's most universal concepts. So here are Paste's notes toward a schema of motherhood in rap, indie rock and points outlying. Could there be a more obvious starting point than Danzig?
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MUSIC

No Age
Nouns
No Age’s allure has always come from the band’s conflict...

Counting Crows: Saturday Nights, Sunday Mornings

Ladyhawk: Shots

The Last Shadow Puppets: The Age of the Understatement

Tim Fite: Fair Ain't Fair

Hayden: In Field & Town

Langhorne Slim: Langhorne Slim

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FILM

Speed Racer
In the first film written and directed by Andy and Larry Wachowski since they...

The Babysitters: In this dark, despicable comedy, 16-year-old babysitter...

The Fall: Shot in nearly 30 countries, this exotic globetrot deserves...

Iron Man: There was never any question whether Iron Man would look great...

Red Belt: David Mamet's new jiu-jitsu movie, Redbelt, may seem like a detour...

Son of Rambow: Son of Rambow, the new film by Garth Jennings, was an audience...

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BOOKS

Steven Galloway
What do you do when it’s dangerous to cross the street, but that’s where...

Dr. Anne Paris: What is an artist’s greatest fear? The paralyzing enemy called creative block...

Martin Amis: In the earliest days of our new epoch, as the shock of September 11 subsided...

Rabih Alameddine: Listen. Allow me to be your god. Let me take you...

Nathaniel Rich: There is little beyond exuberance to betray The Mayor's Tongue as a debut...

Tara Yellen: In the film Waking Life, Louis Mackey poses...

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Check out photos from Dolly Parton's latest Atlanta visit...

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