Catching Up With... Noah and The Whale
Noah and The Whale has never been a band lacking in inspiration. Its name is a play on director Noah Baumbach's 2005 film The Squid and The Whale. Its sophomore effort First Days of Spring was spurred on by a painful breakup... read more
Matthew Weiner Wants Creative Security for Mad Men, Not Money
As a follow-up to yesterday’s news regarding the contractual struggles between AMC and Mad Men creator, Matthew Weiner has shed some light on what the problem is exactly.... read more
Website To Pay Big For Sale of Illegal Beatles Downloads
A website that illegally sold Beatles downloads in 2009 has been ordered to pay almost $1 million to the labels that hold the rights.... read more
SXSW Film Round-Up: Documentaries
As usual, SXSW Film Fest overflowed with documentaries—some good, some medium well. My thoughts on a handful of them.... read more
Disney Drops Tron Director's Sci-Fi Project
Disney has decided not to go ahead with Tron: Legacy director Joseph Kosinski’s sci-fi project. However, the studio is allowing the director to shop the project around to other interested parties. It seems that there were disagreements between Kosinski, who wanted the film to be more edgy, and Disney, who was firm on maintaining a PG-13 rating.... read more
Bill Murray to Play Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Vulture sources say Bill Murray has agreed to play Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the film Hyde Park On the Hudson, an adaptation of the British radio play of the same name.... read more
The Decemberists, Elvis Costello To Headline Newport Folk Festival
The Decemberists, Elvis Costello and Emmylou Harris will headline this year’s Newport Folk Festival.... read more
Snoop Dogg Discusses Kanye West Collaboration
Snoop Dogg recently released his latest studio album, Doggumentary, which features a Kanye West collaboration.... read more
Bill Callahan Moves LP Release Date Up, Announces Tour
The end is nearer! Apocalypse, the forthcoming album from Bill Callahan, will hit shelves sooner that expected. Originally set for release on April 19, the album will now be available a few weeks earlier on April 5. Apocalypse is the third album by Callahan since he dropped the Smog moniker after the release of A River Ain’t Too Much to Love in 2005.... read more
Tennessee Gets New "Musical" License Plate
Tennessee unveiled a new vanity license plate, to commemorate the state’s contribution to music and benefit music education.... read more
Death Cab for Cutie to Film and Broadcast Music Video Live
Ben Gibbard and co. plan to do something a little different for the band’s forthcoming music video. For “You Are A Tourist,” Death Cab will film the scripted music video while simultaneously broadcasting it live. Tim Nackashi, who worked with OK Go on their ingenious clips, will direct the music video, which will air on April 5 at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT at this website.... read more
Rebecca Black Overtakes Justin Bieber As Most Hated Person on YouTube
Rebecca Black has overtaken Justin Bieber as the most disliked person on YouTube, based on approximately 1.23 million “dislikes” of her infamous “Friday” video, reveals ReadWriteWeb.... read more
The Final Fantasy VII Letters, Part 5
Part five in our ongoing retrospective letter series. An index of all letters can be found here.... read more
Ellie Goulding Announces Las Vegas Residency
One of our favorite new singers from across the pond has announced a three-night residency at The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas.... read more
Aretha Franklin: Take A Look: Aretha Franklin Complete on Columbia
Aretha Franklin was only 19 years old when she signed with Columbia Records in 1960, but she had already established herself on the gospel circuit as a soloist at her father’s church in Detroit. With his encouragement, she traded the sanctuary for the nightclub and put her heavenly voice toward songs about worldly instead of spiritual love. In five years she made seven records for the label, plus numerous singles and unreleased sessions with various bands and producers, resulting in a string of modest hits like “One Step Ahead” and “Won’t Be Long.”... read more
Comic Book & Graphic Novel Round-Up (3/30/11)
Every Wednesday, Paste looks at some of the most intriguing comic books, graphic novels, graphic memoirs and other illustrated books.... read more
Star Trek 2 Slated for Summer 2012 Release
Deadline reports that Paramount Pictures has “scrapped a tentative plan” to revive the Jack Ryan franchise, meaning Chris Pine — who was involved with the project — can work on the follow-up to Star Trek, allowing Paramount to maintain a June 29, 2012 release date.... read more
Starz Digital Media Renews How It Should Have Ended for Second Season
Have you ever watched a movie and thought, “Man, this would have been way better if it had just ended like this”? Tackling everything from The Lord of the Rings to Inception, web parody How It Should Have Ended explores just that with comedic videos that spoof popular movies into brief bits of satire.... read more
Cracks
Boarding school films have become their own genre, with standard plotlines and stock characters. Cracks, the debut film from Ridley Scott’s daughter Jordan, is in almost every respect typical of these films, taking place during an unspecified period of time at a seemingly idyllic all-girls school where one clique, the swimming team, is ruled over by the bullying Di (Juno Temple). read more
Watch The Mountain Goats Play with The Hold Steady's Craig Finn
Via Consequence of Sound: On Monday night, Craig Finn of The Hold Steady joined The Mountain Goats for a performance of “This Year” off the Goats’ album, The Sunset Tree.... read more
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