Watch Sleeper Agent’s New Video “Get Burned”

Watch Sleeper Agent’s New Video “Get Burned”

Though they just released their debut album, _Celabrasion_ last September, Sleeper Agent has gotten a bunch of recognition just from their association with fellow Kentucky alt-rockers Cage the Elephant. The two bands toured together last year and today, Sleeper Agent debuted their second video off _Celabrasion_, “Get Burned,” that Cage The Elephant singer Matt Shultz directed.   read more

Chuck Prophet: Temple Beautiful

Chuck Prophet: <i>Temple Beautiful</i>

Not since Lou Reed paid homage to the city and era that forged him with New York has there been a song cycle dedicated to a place and reality that offers the core immediacy with the thump, churn and ferocity of Chuck Prophet’s Temple Beautiful. A stripped down rock & roll record - where the drums pump and echo, guitars slash and buzz and horns squawk like geese with rhythm - the former wunderkind of progressive cosmic cowboys Green On Red bristles with an intensity that makes great rock burn.  read more

NBC's Friday Night Dinner Adaptation Lands Two Emmy Winners As Leads

NBC's <I>Friday Night Dinner</i> Adaptation Lands Two Emmy Winners As Leads

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Comic Book & Graphic Novel Round-Up (2/8/12)

Comic Book & Graphic Novel Round-Up (2/8/12)

Each week, Paste reviews the most intriguing comic books, graphic novels, graphic memoirs and other illustrated books....  read more

Sigur Rós Announces 2012 Tour

Sigur Rós Announces 2012 Tour

After a three year hiatus, where front man Jónsi took to multiple projects that included solo album Go, side project Riceboy Sleeps and soundtrack for Cameron Crowe's We Bought A Zoo, the prolific Icelandic band has announced they will be touring again in 2012.  read more

Damon Albarn, Flea Album Expected in March

Damon Albarn, Flea Album Expected in March

As "previously reported":http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2011/11/listen-to-damon-albarn-and-fleas-new-band.html, Damon Albarn of Blur and Gorillaz fame, Flea and Fela Kuti’s drummer Tony Allen have formed an oddly named project called Rocket Juice and the Moon.   read more

Watch The Cranberries Perform Their First Single From Roses

Watch The Cranberries Perform Their First Single From <i>Roses</i>

The Cranberries hit it big in the mid-1990s with their Irish-infused alternative rock, but haven’t released an album since 2001 and officially went on a hiatus two years later. They're ready to release a new album and played a new song on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.  read more

Listen to Jack White's New Solo Track "Machine Gun Silhouette"

Listen to Jack White's New Solo Track "Machine Gun Silhouette"

Jack, even if the world didn't know Third Man Records address is on a quant street in Nashville, we could tell you that that's the city you've been occupying. Why? Because as much as your new tune sounds like you, its sonic vibe is also rooted in that great country-southern state of Tennessee - and we are not complaining. Today White has released single "Machine Gun Silhouette" off his forthcoming solo album Blunderbuss.  read more

Foo Fighters And Deadmau5 To Perform Together At The Grammys

Foo Fighters And Deadmau5 To Perform Together At The Grammys

While this collaboration of hard rock and trance dance might sound strange, the concept of the Foo Fighters working with Deadmau5 isn’t actually that new. In fact, the mouse-ear-touting DJ already worked his magic on the Foos’ song “Rope” and the remixed version of the song appeared as a bonus track on last year’s _Wasting Light_.   read more

New Girl Review: "The Landlord" Episode 1.12)

<i>New Girl</i> Review: "The Landlord" Episode 1.12)

While it has seemed like Nick and Jess have been predetermined to end up together at some point in New Girl, it is less because they are the show’s two main stars, but rather that they are two opposite ends of the spectrum. In “The Landlord”, Jess is the girl who can turn around the angry driver with a gun with only a smile and for the second episode in a row, uses cupcakes as a friendly tool to get others to help her. Simply put, she sees the world with rose colored glasses on, even as a child accepting candy from a stranger in a van, which for once in the world, turned out to be a good thing as he brought his grandmother along to hand out the sweets. On the other hand, Nick’s viewpoint is that people are the worst. Stemmed from a childhood where a man once stole $5 from him and ran away, Nick believes that man does not have the best intentions. New Girl may seem like the wrong format to debate the inherent good or evil in man, but with “The Landlord”, Jess and Nick take on their ideals in an awkward, and hilarious battle, to see who is right.   read more

SoulCalibur V Review (Multi-Platform)

<em>SoulCalibur V</em> Review (Multi-Platform)

A SoulCalibur fan considers the brand new SoulCalibur V....  read more

Josh Ritter Working on New Album, Novel

Josh Ritter Working on New Album, Novel

Josh Ritter has a new full-length album and novel in the works, the songwriter told Paste. The yet-to-be-titled album will be a follow-up to 2010’s So Runs the World Away and will include songs that Ritter said are some of his most personal.  read more

Paul McCartney: Kisses on the Bottom

Paul McCartney: <i>Kisses on the Bottom</i>

Neil Young once said if you live long enough, you’ll be so far behind the times that eventually things will come around and you’ll be on the cutting edge again. He could have been talking about his pal, Paul McCartney.  read more

Joseph Gordon-Levitt Set to Make Directorial Debut

Joseph Gordon-Levitt Set to Make Directorial Debut

Joseph Gordon-Levitt will make his directorial debut in a film he wrote and will star in alongside Scarlett Johansson, according to Deadline. The comedy will start shooting this upcoming April.  read more

Watch the Alabama Shakes Play Conan

Watch the Alabama Shakes Play <i>Conan</i>

The Alabama Shakes took to Conan O’ Brien's show last night to promote their forthcoming album, Boys & Girls. The group played “Hold On,” a bluesy track to preview their album.   read more

Paste mPlayer Issue 30 Is Live!

Paste mPlayer Issue 30 Is Live!

This week’s issue features Sharon Van Etten, of Montreal, Hospitality, Grace Woodroofe, Ashley Hinshaw, The Innkeepers, FIFA 12, Freddie Mercury, EMA, Party Down, Robert Ellis, Yellow Ostrich, tons of reviews and Isaac Slade’s reflections from Rwanda. And now we need to go catch our breath....  read more

Kevin Smith Reveals Animated Jay and Silent Bob Film Is In the Works

Kevin Smith Reveals Animated <i>Jay and Silent Bob</i> Film Is In the Works

Kevin Smith has revealed that there’s going to be a Jay and Silent Bob cartoon and that he’s been quietly working on it for a while now.  read more

Bahamas: Barchords

Bahamas: <i>Barchords</i>

If you expect a guy called Bahamas to make laid-back, tropical music, you’d be half-right. On Barchords, Bahamas (or Afie Jurvanen, as his mamma calls him) crafts a collection of light, sometimes even breezy tracks infused with blues (“Lost in the Light”), pop (“Your Sweet Touch”) and country (“Any Other Way”). Oddly, one of the most notable things about Barchords is how much silence it contains. In an effort to create space for the songs’ sentiments, Jurvanen has taken quite the stripped-down approach to instrumentation, favoring vocals high in the mix and at times leaving long moments of silence between...  read more

Metallica-Curated Festival to Feature Modest Mouse, Best Coast

Metallica-Curated Festival to Feature Modest Mouse, Best Coast

Metallica announced today the lineup for Orion Music & More, an Atlantic City, N.J., festival that they would curate to celebrate the 20th anniversary of The Black Album. The festival takes place at Bader Field on June 23 and 23.   read more

Smash Review: "Pilot" (Episode 1.01)

<i>Smash</i> Review: "Pilot" (Episode 1.01)

The series, about all of the aspects surrounding a new musical about Marilyn Monroe, is going to draw hefty comparisons to the only other successful musical series on television. Whether it’s a preconceived idea, like I had, or because it warrants the links because it’s a musical, the comparisons will continue to fall into place until Smash proves it’s different.  read more