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Ryan Adams :: The View From The Plateau Ryan Adams :: The View From The Plateau

After nine solo albums and a forthcoming five-disc box set, Ryan Adams is finally putting his solo career on the back burner. Next for Adams? Working as a fulltime member of his current “backing” band, The Cardinals. Paste catches one of today’s most brilliant, prolific songwriters—sober for a year now—on the precipice of a new phase in his life and musical journey... Read more....

Band of Horses :: Song of the South Band of Horses :: Song of the South

Although the term “Southern rock” has traditionally evoked muttonchop sideburns and the devil going down to Georgia, the genre's tapestry also includes the kaleidoscopic psychedelia of early R.E.M. and the reverb-limned keening of My Morning Jacket... Read more....

Jens Lekman :: The Best Medicine Jens Lekman :: The Best Medicine

With Jens Lekman singing morose lines like, “I will never kiss anyone / who doesn’t burn me like the sun,” you might think he’s a humorless, self-mutilating drama queen... Read more....

4 To Watch: A.J. Roach :: Raising The Roof 4 To Watch: A.J. Roach :: Raising The Roof

“When my father built our house, we had a roof-raising party,” recalls San Francisco-based folksinger A.J. Roach. “Friends and family came from all over the county... Read more....

4 To Watch: Giant Bear :: Don't Quit Your Day Job... <em>Yet</em> 4 To Watch: Giant Bear :: Don't Quit Your Day Job... Yet

Though Giant Bear’s unintentionally trendy name is now emblazoned on the flanks of its tour van, the clunker’s goldenrod hue reveals its past life as a Stanley Steemer Carpet Cleaner utility vehicle... Read more....

4 To Watch: Kate Nash :: Opportunities Have Arisen 4 To Watch: Kate Nash :: Opportunities Have Arisen

Naturally, with all her stage experience, Kate Nash assumed she’d be a shoo-in at Bristol’s posh Old Vic Theatre School. She thought wrong. And the moment she received her rejection letter... Read more....

4 To Watch: Simian Mobile Disco :: Rock to the Rhythm of the Beat 4 To Watch: Simian Mobile Disco :: Rock to the Rhythm of the Beat

Attack Decay Sustain Release grabs dance music’s percussive backbone and transplants it into rock ’n’ roll’s sinuous body. “We wanted to try and make a dance-music album that had a bit more coherence than normal,” Ford says... Read more....

<em>The Kite Runner</em> :: Marc Forster Flies Kites The Kite Runner :: Marc Forster Flies Kites

"Good novels are almost always better than the movies they inspire,” says screenwriter David Benioff. And perhaps it’s true that his adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s best-selling novel The Kite Runner is another film with perpetual baggage... Read more....

<em>Darfur Now</em> :: Responding to Genocide Darfur Now :: Responding to Genocide

When the U.S. House passed a resolution to call the atrocities in Darfur by their “rightful name: ‘genocide,’” it marked the first time in history that the United States had officially recognized the extermination of a people while the killing was still happening. Unlike the Nazi concentration camps... Read more....

The Road Giveth, The Road Taketh Away :: Jack Kerouac's <em>On The Road</em> Turns 50 The Road Giveth, The Road Taketh Away :: Jack Kerouac's On The Road Turns 50

I have a yellow Polaroid photo of myself in the streets of Juarez, Mexico, 1972. I’m sitting on a life-size plaster horse, wearing a straw sombrero, holding a beat-up copy of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. I’m drunk and happy and three-quarters through a 7,000-mile odyssey across the continent. I’d purchased a... Read more....

Only in America :: Over the Rhine's <em>The Trumpet Child</em> Only in America :: Over the Rhine's The Trumpet Child

I was standing backstage at a recent festival in The Netherlands when a fellow from the former East Germany approached me with a couple of his Dutch friends. He booked a music festival in Germany and was wondering if my band, Over the Rhine, might be interested in making an appearance in 2008... Read more....

Embracing The Invisible :: Giving a voice, and a face, to America's homeless Embracing The Invisible :: Giving a voice, and a face, to America's homeless

Lynn Blodgett, a college dropout who runs a Fortune 500 IT company, sees the invisible—and photographs them. His remarkable portraits of the homeless will be the look and feel of a November national public-awareness campaign to aid the unsheltered... Read more....

White Chalk :: [Universal/Island] White Chalk :: [Universal/Island]

Put in context, White Chalk serves her purposes, much as Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska served his... Read more....

Magic :: [Columbia] Magic :: [Columbia]

The American record industry has never... Read more....

Dwight Sings Buck :: [New West] Dwight Sings Buck :: [New West]

Bakersfield disciple pays tribute to hitmaker and Hee Haw host Buck Owens... Read more....
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