Record Store Doc Gets Released on DVD

By Caroline Klibanoff at 5:00 PM on July 30, 2010

Brendan Toller’s documentary on the threatened fate of independent record stores, featuring Patrick Carney (The Black Keys), Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Patterson Hood (Drive-By Truckers), rock photographer Bob Gruen and Noam Chomsky, among others, was released Thursday nationwide. It was formerly available only in independent record stores, having been released on Record Store Day earlier this year....  read more

Winston Churchill Goes Digital

By Corey Humphress at 4:30 PM on July 30, 2010

For nearly 40 years, the collected papers of Sir Winston Churchill (everything from his personal letters to his Nobel Prize-winning writings) have been housed in the Churchill Archives of Cambridge University. Yesterday, reports the BBC, the Sir Winston Churchill Archive Trust announced that all of those papers (which number over one million) will be digitized and made available to the world as of 2012....  read more

Ciné Files: Grease Through the Ages

By Whitney Baker, Lindsay Eanet, Ani Vrabel at 4:00 PM on July 30, 2010

For this special guest edition of Ciné Files, three of Paste’s intrepid interns went to see the Grease sing-a-long. What follows is three separate essays, exploring the movie, pop-culture, and the dominant ethos of our age: Nostalgia....  read more

LCD Soundsystem Announces Tour Dates with Hot Chip

By Whitney Baker at 4:00 PM on July 30, 2010

Prepare to get your indie dance on: LCD Soundsystem has released a slew of U.S. tour dates throughout September and October. After a round of festivals on the other side of the world, LCD Soundsystem comes stateside for a few east coast dates before heading out west to join with Hot Chip (and, for one show, Sleigh Bells)....  read more

BOXCON 2010 Hits Brooklyn

By Kasia Pilat at 3:45 PM on July 30, 2010

If you’re a fan of beatboxing and happen to be in the New York area tonight, you’re in luck: the Sixth International Human Beatbox Convention (BOXCON 2010) kicks off at Littlefield in Brooklyn. In addition, it’s the first-ever American Beatboxing Championships....  read more

Mountain Man Touring with Jonsi, Deer Tick

By Corey Humphress at 3:15 PM on July 30, 2010

All-girl folk trio Mountain Man has announced fall tour dates in support of their debut album, Made the Harbor. The record has gained them a growing fan base, several nods from critics as well as the attention of Jonsi, for whom they will be opening most of the tour....  read more

Watch the New Tegan and Sara Video

By Corey Humphress at 3:00 PM on July 30, 2010

Tegan and Sara have a new video up for “On Directing” off of their 2009 album, Sainthood. It’s basically a love note to their twindom… and a mesmerizing one....  read more

Kanye West's Social Media Domination Continues: No One Man Should Have All That Twitter

By Lindsay Eanet at 2:45 PM on July 30, 2010

In case you’ve been nowhere near the Intertubes in the past 24 hours, here’s a recap: rapper Kanye West joined Twitter yesterday, amassed more than 200,000 followers and previewed a few new tracks off of the Album Formerly Known as Good Ass Job at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. and then later in the day at Twitter HQ (video below). ...  read more

Guillermo del Toro and James Cameron Take On H.P. Lovecraft

By Whitney Baker at 2:20 PM on July 30, 2010

We were kind of surprised and disappointed when Guillermo del Toro dropped his oft-hyped and unexpectedly-protracted directorial role with the Peter Jackson-produced Hobbit. But now that more and more of his projects are coming to light, it’s no surprise that del Toro shied away from making the commitment: not only did he recently announce an adaptation of The Haunted Mansion and hype his upcoming Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, but he’s got something cooking with James Cameron, too....  read more

Watch Chromeo's Latest Music Video

By Kasia Pilat at 2:00 PM on July 30, 2010

Check it out, guys, Montreal’s best electrofunk duo Chromeo have a new video for their single, “Don’t Turn The Lights On,” from their third upcoming studio album, Business Casual....  read more

Watch Dead Confederate's New Video

By Kasia Pilat at 1:30 PM on July 30, 2010

Dead Confederate are having a busy summer....  read more

Battlestar Galactica Webseries In The Works

By Whitney Baker at 1:15 PM on July 30, 2010

Though Battlestar Galactica‘s final episode aired on March 20, 2009, the vast and incredibly imagined sci-fi drama remains in our hearts. Spin-off prequel series Caprica just made a showing at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con to promote footage from its second season, but maybe that isn’t enough—maybe what we really need is Adama in bite-sized, harder-hitting doses....  read more

Download Jens Lekman's New Track, "The End of the World Is Bigger Than Love"

By Ani Vrabel at 1:00 PM on July 30, 2010

Perhaps at the exact second you read these words, Swedish singer-songwriter Jens Lekman is working on new material for a follow-up to his last album, 2007’s Night Falls On Kortedala. To tide everyone over until this album’s TBA release date, he has revealed a new song, “The End of the World Is Bigger Than Love,” which is available for free....  read more

Thao and Mirah to Release Album in 2011

By Jennifer Ross at 12:30 PM on July 30, 2010

We love Thao Nguyen. We also love Mirah. As happy as we were about their recent collaborations on the road, we’re even more excited about the album the songstresses are recording at San Francisco’s Tiny Telephone Studios....  read more

Movie Moments get DynaVox-ed

By Corey Humphress at 12:15 PM on July 30, 2010

And what do you do when you find a machine that makes people sound like creepy robots? Why, use it on your favorite movie lines, of course!  read more

Zach Galiafinakis' Comedy of E-Mail Errors Gets Picked Up By DreamWorks

By Lindsay Eanet at 11:45 AM on July 30, 2010

Maybe the mind-control tactics his character uses in Dinner For Schmucks are working....  read more

CBS Rates Poorly with GLAAD, Responds... Sort Of

By Corey Humphress at 11:40 AM on July 30, 2010

The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) thinks CBS is “Failing” to fairly and accurately portray the LGBT community on air, which it announced with the recent release of its fourth annual Network Responsibility Index. The report delcared that, in terms of the “quantity, quality and diversity of images of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people,” CBS fared the worst among the five major broadcast networks for the second year in a row....  read more

Dinner for Schmucks

By Whitney Baker at 11:03 AM on July 30, 2010

Director: Jay Roach Writers: David Guion, Michael Handelman Cinematographer: Jim Denault Starring: Paul Rudd, Steve Carell, Zach Galifianakis, Jemaine Clement, Stephanie Szostak Studio: Paramount Pictures You may say he’s a dreamer, but he’s not Dinner for Schmucks is pure, sharp, unrelenting cheese. Based on the classic French comedy Le Diner de Cons written by Francis Veber, the idea of a group of high-powered execs holding a monthly competition for who can find the “most special person” promises straight-forward hilarity. Tim (Paul Rudd), a financial analyst aspiring to the 7th floor at his firm, is dating a gorgeous art museum curator...  read more

Interpol Offers Free Songs With Album Pre-Order, More Tour Dates

By Lindsay Eanet at 11:00 AM on July 30, 2010

It’s been a rather hectic summer for Interpol, between a live lineup restructuring after the departure of bassist Carlos D and the postponing of a string of European gigs where they were slated to open for U2....  read more

Hear A Track From Wale's Next Mixtape

By Kasia Pilat at 10:45 AM on July 30, 2010

D.C.-based rapper Olubowale Victor Folarin (short, of course, for Wale) hasn’t released a studio record since November of 2009’s breakout album Attention Deficit, but that doesn’t mean the man isn’t busy....  read more