Jim Jarmusch

By Robert Davis at 12:00 AM on July 20, 2004

Paste film writer Robert Davis sat down with Jim Jarmusch at the San Fransisco International Film Festival to discuss the indie legend’s new movie Coffee and Cigarettes, and much more. Here are some exclusive, unpublished excerpts from the interview: Paste: So from what I understand Coffee and Cigarettes was shot over a long period of time... in order to capture the natural aging process… Jim Jarmusch: [laughs] Yeah. P: …of Tom Waits and Iggy Pop. J: [laughs] Yes, exactly my intention. P: Actually it's surprising to me how rich the themes are given how it was made and how you...  read more

Late Summer Festivals

By Paste Staff at 12:00 AM on July 16, 2004

Here's the followup to our Summer Festival Preview. As we draw closer to fall, there are still plenty of events to satisfy everyone's musical appetite...  read more

Matt Nathanson

By Katie Vesser at 12:00 AM on July 12, 2004

Just before his show at Atlanta’s Cotton Club, Matt Nathanson hurries to scribble down his set list. You could even say he looks a little nervous...  read more

Lee Gates

By James Calemine at 12:00 AM on July 7, 2004

Born in Pontotoc, Miss., in 1937, Lee Gates moved to Milwaukee as a teenager and he’s been playing juke joints there for over fifty years. After several rotations of his new debut album, it’s evident his playing evokes a genetic sound resembling his legendary cousin, bluesman Albert Collins...  read more

Dios

By Jeffrey Terich at 12:00 AM on June 10, 2004

Of all the articles written about Dios thus far, three specific things about the band members are always mentioned: They hail from Hawthorne, once home to The Beach Boys...  read more

Listening To Old Voices

By Andy Whitman at 12:00 AM on June 1, 2004

I didn’t discover Joni Mitchell until her 1971 album Blue. I was holed up on a Christmas morning in a Chicago suburb, 16 years old—not wise enough to make it on my own and not foolish enough to pretend my helliday home was normal...  read more

4 To Watch For: Charlie Mars

By Tom Lanham at 12:00 AM on June 1, 2004

You can almost hear the pounding hooves. Throughout the eponymous V2 debut from Oxford, Miss., artist Charlie Mars, a spooky Southern Gothic aura gallops like some spectral pale stallion...  read more

4 To Watch For: Jamie Cullum

By Brian Quincy Newcomb at 12:00 AM on June 1, 2004

It was already far from your standard jazz-trio set when Jamie Cullum climbed under the glass-topped grand piano in the lounge of Austin’s posh, 120-year-old Driskill Hotel...  read more

4 To Watch For: Rich Price

By Tom Lanham at 12:00 AM on June 1, 2004

You’ve got to hand it to former San Francisco resident Rich Price—as singer/songwriters go, he’s definitely his own idiosyncratic man...  read more

4 To Watch For: Eszter Balint

By Philip Christman at 12:00 AM on June 1, 2004

A simple, descending blues figure played on a banjo, an alluring, slightly weary voice, then a manic, stringed kr-thunk....  read more

The Artist's Life

By Scott Miller at 12:00 AM on June 1, 2004

Since returning home from Mule Train MMIV— the tour I embarked upon with my band, The Commonwealth, in early 2004 aboard the Amtrak Crescent—trains both here and abroad have taken a serious beating...  read more

Allison Moorer

By Wes Orshoski at 12:00 AM on June 1, 2004

It’s a Friday in March and Manhattan is abuzz. Night has come and it’s happy hour in the lobby bar of Allison Moorer’s obnoxiously trendy 27th Street hotel, but she’s oblivious...  read more

Los Lobos

By Bud Scoppa at 12:00 AM on June 1, 2004

In an old brick building on the gritty end of Sunset Boulevard, the five members of Los Lobos are nearing the end of a day of TV and press interviews...  read more

Mystery Is A Farce

By Jay Sweet at 12:00 AM on June 1, 2004

Canadians are a funny bunch. Jim Carrey, Mike Myers, John Candy, even the members of the Cowboy Junkies: all funny...  read more

Jim Jarmusch

By Robert Davis at 12:00 AM on June 1, 2004

Roberto Benigni & Steven Wright, Iggy Pop & Tom Waits—just some of the delightful onscreen pairings in Jim Jarmusch’s Coffee and Cigarettes...  read more

On Being Human

By Tim Sheridan at 12:00 AM on June 1, 2004

When in conversation, people rarely hold each other’s gaze for more than a few seconds. There’s an intimacy in eye contact that’s typically too intense for us...  read more

Swedish Cinema

By Tim Porter at 12:00 AM on June 1, 2004

The history of Swedish cinema is much richer than Hollywood’s appropriations. Home to the most theater screens per capita in all of Europe, Sweden makes the strongest case for the very concept of a national cinema...  read more

Pedro the Lion

By David Drury at 12:00 AM on June 1, 2004

You’ve been lied to. Achilles Heel, the new album from Pedro the Lion, was supposed to be the anticipated and triumphant third act...  read more

Van Hunt

By Stephanie Ramage at 12:00 AM on June 1, 2004

Strolling into Six Feet Under, a restaurant on Atlanta’s Eastside, Van Hunt looks like a jive-era GHOST summoned from the cemetery across the street...  read more

The Magnetic Fields

By Matt Fink at 12:00 AM on June 1, 2004

Stephin Merritt certainly doesn’t fit the singer/songwriter stereotype. Had he been born 50 years earlier, he’d have been locking elbows with George Gershwin and Hoagy Carmichael...  read more