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Happy 8/8/08, folks. It's a lucky day to some, but for most of us, it's more likely just the end of the work week. And you know what that means...binge drinking! Well, maybe, but also a round-up of all the content on PasteMagazine.com over the last several days.
But before we get into it, I'd like to give a shout-out to Jessica Little, who designs the graphic for this news feature each week. Check out her work, which is on this website. I am now going to link to it once more. Thanks, Jessica!
This week's Band of the Week is Bowery Boy Blue, a group that writer Jill Menze says stands out from a very crowded house filled with contemporaries in New York City. Frontman Zeb Gould (who, incidentally, has a cooler name than anyone I know) and his cohorts create music in the vein of Neil Young, Magnolia Electric Co. and Will Oldham. Peep their MySpace page to get an idea.
Probabably this week's biggest write-up from the reviews section of the site covers the latest movie from Judd Apatow's ever-increasing empire, Pineapple Express. But we also slap a critical treatment on new music from Conor Oberst, Amy Ray, Randy Newman and The Faint, and additional flicks such as Man on Wire, Frozen River, Brideshead Revisited and Hancock. Our lone book review this week is Huraki Murakami's What I Talk About When I Talk About Running.
In our features section this week, Conor Oberst went to Mexico, Be Your Own Pet headed to splitsville (and we remembered the band by re-posting an amusing interview), DAM and Sheva taught us a little about Middle Eastern hip-hop, Nanette Burstein discussed her new movie, American Teen, and writer Gary Gach examined language translation in the world of book publishing. You may notice a theme, and it derives from our International Issue, which is one of our most elaborate projects to date and will be on newsstands for a just about one more week.
Since I was out of town toward the end of last week, there has been piles of news reported on PasteMagazine.com both last week and this week. Rather than detailing a few of my many favorites, I'll just say that you can find something about all of the following folks by digging deep into this link: Tricky, Jay-Z, Oasis, Michel Gondry, Ingrid Michaelson, Amy Sedaris, Atlas Sound, Diplo, Abe Vigoda, Jack Bauer, Dashboard Confessional, Panic at the Disco, Weezer, Quentin Tarantino, Britney Spears, Brad Pitt, Janelle Monáe, Brian May, Paris Hilton, Okkervil River, Mr. Rogers, Kevin Smith, Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks, Metallica, Ray Lamontagne, Stephen Colbert, M.I.A., Margaret Cho, Broken Social Scene, David Byrne, Howard Stern, Barack Obama, John McCain, Big & Rich, Counting Crows, Aimee Mann, Morgan Freeman, Iggy Pop and approximately 7.2 quillion others. Phew.
Have a great weekend, folks. Enjoy the Olympics, if that's your thing. And thanks, as always, for reading. Talk soon...
This week's Band of the Week is Bowery Boy Blue, a group that writer Jill Menze says stands out from a very crowded house filled with contemporaries in New York City. Frontman Zeb Gould (who, incidentally, has a cooler name than anyone I know) and his cohorts create music in the vein of Neil Young, Magnolia Electric Co. and Will Oldham. Peep their MySpace page to get an idea.
Probabably this week's biggest write-up from the reviews section of the site covers the latest movie from Judd Apatow's ever-increasing empire, Pineapple Express. But we also slap a critical treatment on new music from Conor Oberst, Amy Ray, Randy Newman and The Faint, and additional flicks such as Man on Wire, Frozen River, Brideshead Revisited and Hancock. Our lone book review this week is Huraki Murakami's What I Talk About When I Talk About Running.
In our features section this week, Conor Oberst went to Mexico, Be Your Own Pet headed to splitsville (and we remembered the band by re-posting an amusing interview), DAM and Sheva taught us a little about Middle Eastern hip-hop, Nanette Burstein discussed her new movie, American Teen, and writer Gary Gach examined language translation in the world of book publishing. You may notice a theme, and it derives from our International Issue, which is one of our most elaborate projects to date and will be on newsstands for a just about one more week.
Since I was out of town toward the end of last week, there has been piles of news reported on PasteMagazine.com both last week and this week. Rather than detailing a few of my many favorites, I'll just say that you can find something about all of the following folks by digging deep into this link: Tricky, Jay-Z, Oasis, Michel Gondry, Ingrid Michaelson, Amy Sedaris, Atlas Sound, Diplo, Abe Vigoda, Jack Bauer, Dashboard Confessional, Panic at the Disco, Weezer, Quentin Tarantino, Britney Spears, Brad Pitt, Janelle Monáe, Brian May, Paris Hilton, Okkervil River, Mr. Rogers, Kevin Smith, Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks, Metallica, Ray Lamontagne, Stephen Colbert, M.I.A., Margaret Cho, Broken Social Scene, David Byrne, Howard Stern, Barack Obama, John McCain, Big & Rich, Counting Crows, Aimee Mann, Morgan Freeman, Iggy Pop and approximately 7.2 quillion others. Phew.
Have a great weekend, folks. Enjoy the Olympics, if that's your thing. And thanks, as always, for reading. Talk soon...
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