Catching up with Anna Camp and Ashley Williams of Sequin Raze
Two of the best performances we saw at SXSW this year came in a narrative short. Sarah Gertrude Shapiro’s Sequin Raze does more in twenty minutes than most features do in nearly two hours. Anna Camp (The Help, Pitch Perfect, True Blood) and Ashley Williams (How I Met Your Mother, Margin Call) sat down with Paste to talk about dropping pizza, drinking tequila, and accidentally sleeping together.... read more
Catching Up With Derek Watson, Director of This is Normal
There are many powerful moments in the short documentary, This Is Normal. However, there is one particular scene that speaks directly to a certain danger in embracing the so-called American Dream as we know it.... read more
Check out Issue #86 of PASTE.COM featuring Bioshock Infinite
Our first ever videogame cover features Paste Games Editor Garrett Martin's interview with Bioshock Infinite creator Ken Levine. Plus The Waterboys, The Staves, Harmony Korine, Elvis Costello and a guide to Papal wines. read more
Top of the Hops: Paste's IPA Challenge - Round 1 Southwest
When it comes to IPAs, California is so spoiled with great breweries that we almost had to give the state its own bracket. read more
A Day in the Life of an Indie Rock Agent
Alisa Preisler was responsible for 13 different acts at this year's SXSW, including Allah-Las, Black Angels, Black Lips, Coathangers, Nobunny and Roky Erickson. We asked her to recount one of her days busy days in Austin, Texas. read more
Top of the Hops: Paste's IPA Challenge - Round 1 Southeast
Paste is based in Atlanta, and I've spent most of my life in the South. But when it comes to IPAs, I'll admit, we have some catching up to do. read more
Tweets of the Week
Beyonce, Girls and Harvard inspire our favorite tweets this week: read more
True/False Festival Report
Tim Grierson reports from the True/False Festival—a hidden gem for film lovers read more
Top of the Hops: Paste's IPA Challenge - Round 1 Northwest
The Great Northwest. For our purposes, the region is dominated by two great beer states: Oregon and Colorado. read more
Former Girls Producer/Bassist Chet "JR" White Breaks Silence on Band’s Split
"I just wanted a band that big brothers and big sisters in the future would play for their little brothers and little sisters and be like ‘check this out, this is a band that no one really knows and they should.” read more
Top of the Hops: Paste's IPA Challenge - Round 1 Northeast
If there's one thing our first eight head-to-head matchups taught us about our IPA Challenge, it's that tasting 16 IPAs in a day amounts to a lot of beer. read more
Top of The Hops: Paste's IPA Challenge
Welcome to Top of the Hops, the Paste IPA Challenge. We're blind-tasting 64 different beers this month to discover America's Best IPA. read more
Comic Relief with Constantine & Green Arrow Writer Jeff Lemire
In Comic Relief, Paste chats with its favorite writers and artists about the art that inspired them their own current projects. Jeff Lemire is a master of the quiet and calm. The creator behind such independent treasures as Essex County and The Underwater Welder defined his craft with desolate vistas of negative space filled with adrift characters searching for themselves among other things. In Lemire’s best moments, lonely and beautiful are usually one and the same. Over the phone, the acclaimed author is thankfully less reserved than his characters, riffing on his new books and the grocery store digests his... read more
Music on Saturday at SXSW: Prince Played Five Encores, Lives Were Changed
God bless SXSW and God bless Prince. read more
Music on Friday at SXSW: Time to Rock
METZ, King Tuff, FIDLAR and Wampire bring energy to our sleep-deprived Friday night. read more
Tweets of the Week
The newest one-lunged Argentinean Pope Francis and the Veronica Mars Kickstarter campaign provided ample content for Twitter this week. read more
HGTV and Paste Present The Stages on Sixth Day 3 Recap and Photos
SXSW often provides attendees with a bit of a dilemma: is it best to see new, undiscovered bands or catch once-in-a-lifetime performances from established artists? read more
Rock Center with Brian Williams to Feature SXSW, Paste Tonight
We've spent a good bit of time with the folks at Rock Center with Brian Williams this week. The show is at SXSW following Paste writer Ryan Bort looking for the next big thing here in Austin. read more
Music on Thursday at SXSW: Psych, Wayne Coyne and The Screamin' Eagle of Soul
Even if you've already seen him once, even if you've already seen him a thousand times, when the Screamin' Eagle rears his head back and let's one fly it's as if you're hearing it for the first time. read more
Recap: Merge Records Showcase at SXSW
Mount Moriah’s Heather McEntire set the tone for Merge Records’ SXSW showcase last night by thanking her signers and making a small declaration—Merge is “the best record label in the world.” read more

