Pavement to Play Sasquatch! 2010, Three-Day Passes On Sale Tomorrow
Further slating 2010 as the Year of the Pavement Reunion, the beloved/reunited indie rockers are now set to perform at next year’s Sasquatch! Music Festival, May 29-31.... read more
The Men Who Stare At Goats' Title Character Chews the Cud About Breakout Role
The Men Who Stare At Goats is a star-studded dark comedy about, well, pretty much what it sounds like. Reporter Bob Wilton hopes to break the story of his career by investigating a special government wing that equips “Warrior Monks” with bizarre psychic powers for combat. Aside from walking through walls, bursting clouds and reading enemies’ thoughts, the soldiers also have the ability to stare a goat to death in just a matter of seconds. Sure we talked to the guy who wrote the book, but in order to find more about the film, which hits theaters today, Paste also... read more
Win Some Shoes Autographed by The National, Yo La Tengo, The Jesus Lizard and 47 Other Bands
If you a) like indie rock, b) spend at least some portion of your day walking and c) are a generally good person who cares about others, then boy, have we got some news for you. Currently available via eBay auction are a pair of Saucony Original sneakers autographed by no fewer than 50 of today’s best musicians in independent music.... read more
The Best of the Decade
When this decade began, Paste’s website was barely a year old, and the magazine was still a twinkle in its daddies’ eyes. So looking back over the first 10 years of the 2000s feels like looking back over our own history. There hasn’t been a new album, film, TV show, video game or book Paste has covered that wasn’t eligible for our “Best of the Decade” consideration. We had dozens of critics vote in each of these five categories, and then we argued some more until we’d focused our spotlight onto the very best pop culture created during the aughts—whether... read more
Justin Timberlake, Dan Aykroyd and Anna Faris in Talks for Yogi Bear Movie
Bubbly “pic-a-nic” basket thief Yogi Bear is set to have his own live action/CG animated film in the near future, and casting is already underway.... read more
30 Rock Review: "Audition Day" (Episode 4.4)
You know how sometimes a song can be well-written, the lyrics literate and its singer passionate, but you still think "meh" about it? That's kind of what this episode of 30 Rock was like for me. It had a good premise that had been set up for episodes and the usual manic comedy that the show thrives on, but I wasn't really feeling the whole thing. ... read more
Beach House Talks New Album, Teen Dream
The record "was much more like a plunge into isolation, much more of shutting things out and working long hours and really obsessing on things..." read more
Weezer: Raditude
This Rivers is all dried up Weezer fans often cry that haters should quit comparing the band’s later work to Pinkerton and the blue album. That’s fair—bands change, and music evolves. Thing is, even without hope for a return to form, we’re still left sifting through dribble that barely passes as All-American Rejects’ rejects. Had the classics never existed, there’d be little reason to care about Weezer at all.... read more
Hall and Oates to Guest on The Cleveland Show
Just where are those good old-fashioned values on which we used to rely? Although the Family Guy theme song still ponders just that to this day, The Cleveland Show may find them from some unlikely sources: ’80s musical icons Daryl Hall and John Oates.... read more
Film Friday: A Weekend of Pushing Buttons
This weekend at your local Big Screen, the movies are about pushing buttons. In The Box, directed by Donnie Darko creator Richard Kelly, a mysterious man in a long coat who appears to have been slapped in the face on more than one occasion shows up at the home of Cameron Diaz and James Marsden to ask if this attractive, cash-strapped couple wants to see what’s in his box. Spoiler: it’s a button. Push it and you get a million dollars, but when you do someone on the other side of the earth whom you do not know will be... read more
Catching Up With... The Men Who Stare at Goats Author Jon Ronson
Jon Ronson knows his way around weird. The author and documentary filmmaker has spent his career tracking down some of the most wildly weird people on the planet to bring their stories to us normal folk. His bestseller, Them: Adventures with Extremists, chronicled the tales of wannabe global dominators like Islamic fundamentalists and neo-Nazi Ku Klux Klansmen. But it’s his book, The Men Who Stare at Goats, that’s putting his name on the map—in part thanks to George Clooney. The book, about the secret army unit of soldiers with psychic power called the First Earth Battalion, was just made into... read more
Turner Classic Movies to Host Film Festival
Most film festivals seek to showcase best of the up-and-coming. Not Turner Classic Movies.... read more
Salute Your Shorts: Dan Harmon's Channel 101 Shows
Salute Your Shorts is a weekly column that looks at short films, music videos, commercials or any other short form visual media that generally gets ignored.For any longtime fans of Dan Harmon’s work, Community is a surprise. Not the fact that it’s good, no, that’s something that we could all be pretty sure of. It’s that the show, a relatively conventional sitcom, could come from the avant-garde co-founder of Channel 101, whose prior claim to fame involves shows such as Computerman and Laser Fart. He’s long been a superstar for a relatively niche group of Los Angeles filmmakers and comedians,... read more
Community Review: "Home Economics" (Episode 1.8)
Community for the most part plays like a traditional sitcom, but there's one primary aspect that keeps it away from being another exmaple of the old genre: continuity. Due primarily, I would guess, to the way syndication works, sitcoms just don't have a background where what happens in one episode stays relevant in the next. The most important sitcom of my generation, The Simpsons, will make jokes about past episodes but would never base a plotline around it. The two-part "Who Shot Mr. Burns" episodes were noteworthy because things didn't resolve in a quick 22-minutes.... read more
George Harrison Song Completed Over 40 Years Later
Liverpudlian songwriter Dean Johnson recently received the honors of completing an unfinished George Harrison song nearly 40 years after its inception.... read more
Danny Boyle Tackles Mountaineer Survival Story in 127 Hours
It’s official. Danny Boyle has signed on to direct the harrowing story of Aron Ralston, a mountaineer who was trapped under a boulder on a Utah mountain for five days in 2003. He survived by amputating his arm with a dull camping knife and climbing down to safety.... read more
Josh Rouse Announces New Album, El Turista
While inspired by his newfound life in Valencia, Spain, singer-songwriter Josh Rouse created his eighth full-length studio effort, now set for an early 2010 release.... read more
The Talking, Self-Eating Fox From Antichrist Has His Moment
Whatever your opinion of the genital-chopping, misogyny-cheering controversy stirred up by Lars von Trier’s Antichrist, there is one scene that is an undeniable cult novelty. Deep in the movie’s indeterminable midsection, Willem Dafoe’s character wanders into the woods and finds a mangy little fox cannibalizing itself, a fairly horrifying image. The horror, however, quickly turns to hilarity when the fox looks into the camera, and in an ominous voice declares “CHAOS REIGNS” before a slow fade to black.... read more
Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story (Nintendo DS)
Developer: AlphaDream Publisher: Nintendo Platform: Nintendo DS Get further inside the Mushroom Kingdom than ever before At this point, new Mario games are excuses for Nintendo to poke mild fun at itself, in that secretly flattering way only unimpeachable powerhouses can pull off. The company’s 28-year-old mascot has hopped through every genre under the sun, including, in the Mario and Luigi series, action role-playing. The third entry, Bowser’s Inside Story, feels like a long-running sitcom, where every character entrance enjoys great fanfare, and all the gags wink knowingly at prior gags. Nintendo could coast on nostalgia alone, but to their... read more
Kraftwerk: 12345678 The Catalogue
Germany’s Kraftwerk—despite portraying themselves as cold, clinical, precise machinery—was also vague and indeterminable enough to be everything to everybody... read more
Where Have All The Weird Girls Gone?…
Evil Dead to Rise Again to Theaters…
The 20 Best Books of the Decade…
Heather Greene - Moon Hangs Fire
James Yuill - This Sweet Love (Earth…
Patrick Watson - Tracy’s Water
Colin Hay - Down Under
Pete Yorn - Last Summer
