Paste Release Party Features Son Volt-age, More

[L-R] Paste Editor at Large Jay Sweet, interviews Kaki King as Joseph Arthur helps out.

Between Jay Farrar onstage and Fountains of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger and Jody Porter roaming the room, Paste’s Issue 29 release party was packed with musical star power. The Feb. 22 evening, at New York’s Knitting Factory, featured performances by Joseph Arthur and the Lonely Astronauts, Farrar’s Son Volt, the jaw-dropping musical stylings of guitar goddess Kaki King and a short set from Brandi Carlile, who ably covered Radiohead’s “Creep” in addition to songs from her anticipated sophomore set The Story. The room was packed with music-industry cognoscenti, including VH1 chief Bill Flanagan, as well as Josh Werner of Matisyahu’s backing band and new outfit the Royal Vagabonds, Tristan Prettyman, Django Haskins of The Old Ceremony, Four to Watch artists Ryan Shaw and Megan Hickey (of the Last Town Chorus) and more.

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