James Murphy Developing His Own Espresso Blend?

This has been a great month for coffee-drinking indie-rockers. First, Bonnie “Prince” Billy announced that he had launched a coffee through Drag City. Now former LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy is working on his own espresso blend, New York Magazine reported.   read more

Watch Ferris Bueller Return in Honda's Super Bowl Ad

The moment we’ve been waiting for since 1986 is finally here — Ferris Bueller is back. Today a highly rumored Super Bowl ad for Honda hit the internet.  read more

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Releases Own Coffee Roast

Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy is known for his lengthy discography of folksy Americana, but has just launched a project about something else that he loves. Billy has released Bonnie Billy Blend Kona Roast.  read more

Study Finds Loud Music Leads to Increased Alcohol Consumption

Earlier this week, NME reported that a recent study conducted by University of Portsmouth in England indicated that loud music is linked to consumption of alcohol — more specifically, it causes people to drink alcohol faster and in larger quantities.  read more

Christopher Hitchens: 1949-2011

Christopher Hitchens, a British author and journalist who wrote for The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Slate and The Nation has died at 62 after developing cancer of the esophagus, the Wall Street Journal reported. Hitchens died last night at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston of pneumonia, which was a complication of his cancer.  read more

George Takei Urges Sci-Fi Nerds to Unite Against Twilight

Recently, William Shatner and Carrie Fisher rekindled the classic Star Trek vs. Star Wars debate by taking swipes at one another and their respective camps via the Internet, presumably to try and stir up public interest for both franchises, as lately they seem to have taken a pop-culture backseat to vampires and wizards.  read more

Wikipedia Co-Founder Considering Blackout in Response to Anti-Piracy Act

Wikipedia might blackout in response to the Stop Online Piracy Act. At least according to co-founder Jimmy Wales, who posted the notion on his Talk Page this morning.  read more

Stream Amnesty International's Bob Dylan Tribute Album

To commemorate its 50th anniversary, Amnesty International has announced the release of an exhaustive four-CD collection of Bob Dylan cover songs. Spanning material from all parts of the folk singer's long career (he's been around for about as long as Amnesty International), the compilation, titled Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International, features a full 75 tributes to Dylan.  read more

Jerry Robinson: 1922-2011

The enormously influential comic book artist Jerry Robinson died in his sleep at the age of 89 on Wednesday afternoon. Robinson is most widely known for creating the most famous villain of all time: The Joker.  read more

Thom Yorke and Massive Attack's 3D Perform for Occupy London

As NME points out, Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Robert "3D" Del Naja, the main figure of trip-hop group Massive Attack, performed a special DJ set for Occupy London yesterday at Bank of Ideas in Hackney.  read more

Seattle Expected to Get Hendrix-Inspired Park

Jimi Hendrix will be the inspiration of a new park, which is set to be located in Seattle’s Central District, Komo News reported. The park is set to open in 2012 in honor of what would have been Hendrix’s 70th birthday. Designs for the park were revealed at a Dec. 1 at a public meeting that took place at the Northwest African American Museum.  read more

GamePro Magazine To Shut Down After 22 Years

One of video game journalism’s most popular magazines, _GamePro_, will be closing up shop after 22 years.  read more

Watch Common's Dream Documentary

During Common’s recent trip to Haiti, the rapper-actor filmed the music video for “Sweet” but also put together a documentary. The footage compiled was created for CNN and focuses on Haitian children forced into slavery.  read more

Wu-Tang's GZA to Speak at Harvard

A report by Rolling Stone yesterday indicated that the GZA, a founding member of hip-hop collective the Wu-Tang Clan, will get to wax philosophical about his lyrics and music at Harvard University on Dec. 1.  read more

Sylvester Stallone Launching Rocky: The Musical

Back in June, we reported on an upcoming Rocky Musical that was in development. It seems that particular vision fell through, but the project was recently picked back up with assistance from brothers, Ph.D. holders and heavyweight boxing champions Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko.  read more

Congress Looks to Pass Anti-File Sharing Legislation

In an effort to crack down on rampant illegal file sharing, the Senate and the House of Representatives have both recently proposed new pieces of legislation that, if passed, could have serious consequences for how people share media over the Internet.  read more

A Q & A Session With Help-Portrait Photographer Jeremy Cowart

Here at Paste, we define our idea of "signs of life" as sorta like that old definition for pornography: "You know it when you see it." Photogapher Jeremy Cowart's non-profit, Help Portrait, is a brilliant example. Cowart, an in-demand entertainment photographer (he's done Paste covers featuring Modest Mouse, Of Montreal and more), launched Help Portrait in 2009 to serve those in need.   read more

Brad Pitt Claims He'll Retire from Acting by Age 50

According to a recent report by NME, Brad Pitt has recently announced his attention to move away from acting in the next three years.  read more

Adobe Announces Abandonment of Mobile Flash, Endorses HTML5

Earlier today Adobe released a press statement on their company blog announcing that they will now be focusing their Flash developments on PC browsing and will begin to "aggressively contribute" to HML5 development for mobile devices.  read more

Rob Reiner Planning a Film About Proposition 8

Rob Reiner, most famous as the director of classics like This Is Spinal Tap and The Princess Bride, is planning a new film project centered around Proposition 8, according to a report by The Hollywood Reporter.  read more