Twitter, the Movie: Director Frank Kelly Talks 140
Social media phenomenon Twitter has spawned... read more
Jack White, Emmylou Harris Join Nashville Music Council
Emmylou Harris, Jack White and Kix Brooks have joined the 46-member Nashville Business Council. Karl Dean, Nashville's mayor, recently put together the council to help the city's prestigious music scene thrive. Comprised of producers, professors, singers, songwriters, agents, publishers and label managers, the council will oversee and advise Dean on issues like the expansion of the CMA Music Festival, the construction of a downtown amphitheater and the cultivation of music education.... read more
Microsoft Sells Bonds, Raises Billions of Dollars, Now What?
This week, Microsoft began selling bonds and raked in the tidy sum of 3.75 billion dollars. Although some analysts claim that they'll be using the money to buy up cheap stock, Gizmodo.com, Nick Denton's tech blog, is speculating that they'll use the money to buy something "HUGE." Blogger John Herrman wrote, "Today is a great day for wild speculation about Microsoft, so have at it."... read more
Anna Sui Launches Fashion Line Inspired by Gossip Girl
New York-based designer Anna Sui is planning a fall line for Target based on the CW hit Gossip Girl. Sui reportedly wants to create the line because she is often asked about the show by fans of her clothes.... read more
Amazon's Kindle DX Release Ignites Blogging Bonfire
Amazon's digital reader Kindle is being heralded by the press with a mixture of fear and adoration better suited to an apocalypse than a machine. But, according to some, the Kindle could turn out to be just that for the publishing industry.... read more
Sub Pop Announces 2009 "Loser" Scholarship
The fine folks over at Seattle-based independent label Sub Pop are somewhat notorious for tooting their own horn, but it's almost always merited. Case in point: the label has just announced that it is once again offering its "Loser" Scholarship to high-school seniors.... read more
Sex, Drugs and Twitter: Music History in 140 Characters or Less
Even technology created with good intentions can have harrowing consequences. Physicist Robert Oppenheimer expressed regret over his involvement with the development of the atomic bomb... read more
Relix Magazine Resurrected
In a positive turn of events, Relix magazine, which was on a hiatus, has been bought and resurrected by a group of investors, the newly formed Relix Media Group.... read more
The Paste 7 - May 09
Our favorite entertaining bits of whatever. ... read more
Steve Albini Publishes Love of Vegetables, Record Stores
As you may have been able to tell from the plethora of posts about Record Store Day, April 18 was a big day for indie-music retailing. After all, the record store is one of the most enduring establishments of this little subculture we call rock 'n' roll; who can forget the excitement of going down to your local mom-n-pop on Tuesdays and scoping out the new releases? Evidently, not erstwhile Big Black frontman Steve Albini, who we've learned (from Daily Swarm) cut a rather whimsical ad in support of Record Store Day.... read more
Neutral Milk Hotel Wants You to Save a Carousel
The music of Neutral Milk Hotel might not be readily associated with good times at a carnival (unless, of course, it's a painfully, transportingly beautiful carnival that sets up for a few Summers and then totally disappears leaving you totally wrecked and hanging on every subsequent bit of evidence that one day the carnival might just return, maybe, possibly, hopefully, please God let it be soon). Still, Julian Koster and Jeff Mangum, on behalf of their bandmates, are asking fans to act on behalf of the Paragon Carousel, a much-beloved Mass. landmark in dire need of restoration. ... read more
Pirate Bay Lawyer Files for Retrial, Citing Biased Judge
As previously reported, torrent titan The Pirate Bay has been swept up into a legal drama that's one blood-stained carpet away from being a Law and Order episode. The founders of the file-sharing site were recently sentenced to a year in the pokey and $3.6 million in fines, but now their attorney is filing for a retrial.... read more
The Who's Quadrophenia Premieres Onstage in U.K.
Forget Green Day--the Who were the original masters of the rock opera, and now their classic Mod masterpiece Quadrophenia is heading to the stages of England in just a few weeks.... read more
Roberto Benigni Brings TuttoDante to the U.S.
If just thinking about the of Italian tragicomedy Life Is Beautiful is enough to make your heart hurt (in a good way, of course), you're in for a treat. Roberto Benigni, the writer, director and actor behind the 1997 film, is making his U.S. debut of his beloved one-man show TuttoDante (roughly translated to Everything About Dante).... read more
Pulitzer Prize winners include Elizabeth Strout, Lynn Nottage, W.S. Merwin and more
It's that time of year again, when the stars align to produce three great events (usually) in the same month. We get Easter, Coachella and the Pulitzer announcements all wrapped up in a pastel-colored package, complete with blossoming trees and warm weather. It's like Rogers and Hammerstein took over the universe for a few weeks, and we're all suddenly compelled to break into song.... read more
Alternative Comedy Festival announces line-up
It looks like the Alternative Comedy Festival is back for another round of laughs. Now in its second year, the Somerville, Mass.-based fest will feature a great list of comedians including Janeane Garofalo, Michael Ian Black, Rob Riggle from "The Daily Show," the Upright Citizens Brigade Touring Company and a special performance by The Onion, amongst others.... read more
Pirate Bay founders jailed, ordered to pay $3.6m in fines
In the ongoing war between illegal downloaders and media-production companies, the latter may have just scored its biggest victory since the folding of the original Napster in July 2001. A judge in Sweden sentenced the founders of The Pirate Bay, a major file-sharing site, to serve a one-year prison sentence and pay $3.6 million to numerous companies, including Sony, Universal, 20th Century Fox, MGM, Warner Brothers and Columbia. ... read more
AmazonFail postmortem: furor subsiding, hacking denied
It began with a quiet post by an author on Sunday, but by Monday, it was a national controversy and an instant go-to for anyone out to prove the power of Twitter. ... read more
Kal Penn leaves House for a job in Obama administration
Kal Penn was one of the more tireless supporters of Barack Obama last fall, and he used his reputation (or a delicately cleaned-up version of it) to court younger voters. Now he’s decided to make his new calling full time with a job in the White House, EW.com reported on Tuesday. ... read more
Wikipedia trounces Microsoft's Encarta Encyclopedia to death
"F*%$! accuracy!" So seems to say the world in our high-speed, internet-crazed culture where the free, web-based, cooperative encyclopedia Wikipedia has just dealt the death blow to Encarta Encyclopedia. Maybe you recall your professors telling you that Wikipedia is not an official source? Or maybe you work for a magazine that does not verify its facts based on Wiki's word? ... read more
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