Peabody Awards Recognize Record Number of Recipients
The oldest awards in broadcasting celebrated their 70th year by honoring a record number of recipients this year.... read more
Harry Potter DVD Premiere To Stream Online
To celebrate the DVD release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 MTV News will host a live-stream presentation of the DVD premiere on Monday, April 4.... read more
Watch Arcade Fire Play A Secret Show in Haiti
Arcade Fire has been very busy lately with a Grammy win, success at the Juno awards, the release of Scenes From the Suburbs and an upcoming headlining world tour. Even with all this, the rockers managed to host a secret show in Haiti.... read more
Ra Ra Riot Releases European Tour Dates and Free Download
Ra Ra Riot has announced European tour dates; the band is also giving away a remix by Morning Benders of “Too Dramatic” as a free download, which you can grab below.... read more
Source Code
Director: Duncan Jones Writer: Ben Ripley Cinematographer: Don Burgess Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, Jeffrey Wright Studio/Run Time: Summit Entertainment, 93 min. While having the signs of being another soulless, time-travelling, sci-fi dud, Source Code takes off with some intense performances and an inventive story that pulls you in and makes you work for the payoff.... read more
Yo La Tengo Spins The Wheel On Upcoming Tour
Earlier this year, Yo La Tengo turned heads by introducing the ‘Spinning Wheel’ into some of their live performances—most notably reenacting Seinfeld episodes during their live shows. Apparently, the Hoboken indie rockers’ decision to let the wheel decide the first-half of their performances worked well enough to continue doing it on their next tour. After playing a handful of dates in May, Yo La Tengo will head overseas to play a string of UK dates before returning to U.S. on their Spinning Wheel tour. Check out the full list of dates below.... read more
Arctic Monkeys Reveal Lead Single For Suck It and See
The Arctic Monkeys have announced the track “Don’t Sit Down ‘Cause I’ve Moved Your Chair,” will be the first single to be released off their upcoming album Suck It and See.... read more
Will Arnett to Star in NBC Lorne Michaels Comedy
Three-time Emmy nominee Will Arnett has been recruited to star alongside Christina Applegate in an upcoming NBC comedy from Emily Spivey. The currently untitled project focuses on a caustic working mother (Applegate), her stay-at-home husband (Arnett) and her opinionated parents in a (hopefully) hilarious take on the joys and woes of being a parent.... read more
Hear a New Yuck B-Side Track
A couple weeks ago, Paste saw melodic noise-rockers Yuck impress Austin onlookers as part of our 100 bands at SXSW. As the band gears up for another stretch of tour dates, the UK rockers have released a track called “Doctors In My Bed” — a B-side for the “Get Away” single. Check out Yuck’s full list of upcoming tour dates as well the new track below.... read more
Arnold Schwarzenegger to Become The Governator in Stan Lee Series
Spider-Man comic creator Stan Lee has developed a new idea for an animated series, The Governator, featuring none other than former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.... read more
Sword & Sworcery EP Review (iPad)
Halfway through Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, I was completely and utterly stuck. After spending an hour wandering back and forth through the small amount of forest and village that was open to me, I realized that I couldn't progress until the moon had changed… in the real world. ... read more
John Travolta Set to Play John Gotti in Biopic
John Travolta is set to portray notorious mobster John Gotti Jr in the Fiore Films biopic Gotti: Three Generations, according to Variety.... read more
Watch The National's Video for "Think You Can Wait"
The film Win Win, starring Paul Giamatti and Amy Ryan and directed by Tom McCarthy, has been receiving massive critical acclaim (93% on Rottentomatoes). The National have helped by composing the theme song, “Think You Can Wait,” which now has a video full of bloopers and clips of Win Win along with the band and Sharon Van Etten playing the song on a backlit stage.... read more
The Strokes, Foo Fighters, Friendly Fires to Headline BBC Radio 1 Big Weekend
The Strokes, Foo Fighters, Friendly Fires, and Lady Gaga are set to headline BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend. Ellie Goulding, Two Door Cinema Club, Noah and the Whale, The Joy Formidable, The Vaccines and Cage the Elephant are also set to play.... read more
Where The Wild Things Are Author To Publish New Picture Book
The Caldecott-winning author of Where The Wild Things Are is set to publish a new picture book from HarperCollins. Bumble-Ardy will serve as the first book from Maurice Sendak since 1981’s Outside Over There. The book first saw life in the early 1970s as an animated segment for Sesame Street.... read more
Watch The Strokes Perform on Jimmy Fallon
The Strokes stopped by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night to perform “You’re So Right.” Check out video of the performance below (and yes, it’s meant to be black and white).... read more
Tour Diary: Brett Harris at Big Star's Third at Mason Hall, NYC
As a pop musician and a Southerner, it didn’t take long for Big Star to show up on my radar. Friends turned me on to #1 Record and Radio City, and I have been obsessed ever since. Third/Sister Lovers, however, was a different story. Like so many others, I had all but overlooked the album. That changed a year ago, when Chris Stamey asked me to be a part of a show he was planning. That show became a fully orchestrated live performance of Third, which debuted in North Carolina last year and this past weekend was performed in... read more
Josh Homme Lends Vocals to Upcoming Arctic Monkeys Album
Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme will be lending his skills to the Arctic Monkeys yet again, with an appearance on their upcoming release Suck It and See.... read more
Trust
David Schwimmer's new film, Trust, finds him drifting far away from comedy to tackle some serious subject matter—a teenage girl is seduced and raped by an online predator and she and her family must deal with the aftermath. Fortunately, Schwimmer has recruited a capable and talented cast for the film. Unfortunately, the dialogue and scenarios, written by Andy Bellin making his screenwriting debut, are often that of a high-budget, high-brow TV movie. read more
Catching Up With... Kelly Oxford
Paste-approved Twitter personality Kelly Oxford has been blogging since before blogging was cool. Since then, she has developed a steady and numbered following on Twitter, received a book deal and is writing a sitcom for CBS. read more
