Pavement to Play Sasquatch! 2010, Three-Day Passes On Sale Tomorrow
Further slating 2010 as the Year of the Pavement Reunion, the beloved/reunited indie rockers are now set to perform at next year’s Sasquatch! Music Festival, May 29-31.... read more
Win Some Shoes Autographed by The National, Yo La Tengo, The Jesus Lizard and 47 Other Bands
If you a) like indie rock, b) spend at least some portion of your day walking and c) are a generally good person who cares about others, then boy, have we got some news for you. Currently available via eBay auction are a pair of Saucony Original sneakers autographed by no fewer than 50 of today’s best musicians in independent music.... read more
The Best of the Decade
When this decade began, Paste’s website was barely a year old, and the magazine was still a twinkle in its daddies’ eyes. So looking back over the first 10 years of the 2000s feels like looking back over our own history. There hasn’t been a new album, film, TV show, video game or book Paste has covered that wasn’t eligible for our “Best of the Decade” consideration. We had dozens of critics vote in each of these five categories, and then we argued some more until we’d focused our spotlight onto the very best pop culture created during the aughts—whether... read more
Beach House Talks New Album, Teen Dream
The record "was much more like a plunge into isolation, much more of shutting things out and working long hours and really obsessing on things..." read more
Weezer: Raditude
This Rivers is all dried up Weezer fans often cry that haters should quit comparing the band’s later work to Pinkerton and the blue album. That’s fair—bands change, and music evolves. Thing is, even without hope for a return to form, we’re still left sifting through dribble that barely passes as All-American Rejects’ rejects. Had the classics never existed, there’d be little reason to care about Weezer at all.... read more
George Harrison Song Completed Over 40 Years Later
Liverpudlian songwriter Dean Johnson recently received the honors of completing an unfinished George Harrison song nearly 40 years after its inception.... read more
Josh Rouse Announces New Album, El Turista
While inspired by his newfound life in Valencia, Spain, singer-songwriter Josh Rouse created his eighth full-length studio effort, now set for an early 2010 release.... read more
Kraftwerk: 12345678 The Catalogue
Germany’s Kraftwerk—despite portraying themselves as cold, clinical, precise machinery—was also vague and indeterminable enough to be everything to everybody... read more
Best of What's Next: Moneybrother
Anders Wendin makes music as Moneybrother, but he's first and foremost a tourist... read more
N.A.S.A. Offers $1,000 and Spot On Album to Best Fan Remix
N.A.S.A., the dual hemisphere duo of Squeak E. Clean and DJ Zegon, has faith in its fans. So much so that the guys are willing to include a fan-made remix of one of their already-gigantic bangers on an upcoming remix album. Plus, they'll kick said fan a cool $1,000 because they're just that nice.... read more
Lightspeed Champion Reacquaints Himself with New Album
Although he’s only in his 20s, Lightspeed Champion’s Dev Hynes has had to reintroduce himself several times. Once a guitarist for unfortunately-named-and-now-defunct rock band, Test Icicles, the singer/songwriter reemerged in 2008 with the country-inspired Falling Off the Lavender Bridge. And now, after dabbling into classical compositions and musical theatre, he is ready to do it all over again.... read more
Fanfarlo Announces U.S. Tour
Fanfarlo’s slow-but-steady rise to fame continues on, as the London-based chamber pop ensemble (and one of Paste‘s Best of What’s Next picks) begins a U.S. tour in just a few days.... read more
Listen to Dirty Projectors B-Side "Ascending Melody"
With Bitte Orca and “Knotty Pine” as proof, Dirty Projectors have never been more accessible.... read more
Bruce Springsteen's Autobiography Worth as Much as $10 Million
Most 60-something men can barely get their own grandchildren to listen to their stories. But Bruce Springsteen isn’t your average old dude. For his life story, which he’s currently turning into an autobiography, he could get up to $10 million, reports the New York Post’s Keith Kelly.... read more
Nirvana: Live at Reading
In an age where Twitter feeds, YouTube footage and Brooklyn Vegan-esque blogs guarantee over-documentation of any concert mere moments after the lights go up... read more
Catching Up With... Tegan Quin
When Tegan and Sara Quin speak of devotion, they do not speak of its most traditional sense. read more
Flight of the Conchords May Not Return for Third Season
Emmy nominated Flight of the Conchords co-star Jemaine Clement has been frank lately in discussing the New Zealand duo’s future with the show, telling Reuters “it very likely might not” return for a third season due to its strenuous work demands.... read more
New Leonard Cohen Biography Coming in December
You know you’ve made it big when there are two official biographies written about you. So congrats, Leonard Cohen, welcome to the big boy’s club. The second Cohen biography, called Hallelujah: A New Biography and to be released on Dec. 1, will chronicle both Cohen’s origins as a singer-songwriter and his recent resurgence as a sort-of indie godfather.... read more
Beatles Albums Come Together on Special USB Drive, Out in December
Four decades of rock ‘n’ roll greatness, and it’ll all be the size of your thumb. That’s the thought behind Beatles in Stereo, the first legal degital version of The Beatles’ catalog to be released. Containing all 14 albums and 13 mini-documentaries, the release will come in the form of a USB thumb drive shaped appropriately like an apple.... read more
Beastie Boys, Beck, Santigold Remix Norah Jones
Among other collaborators, Norah Jones managed to enlist musicians who worked with Beck for her fourth studio release, The Fall. But as she revealed recently, she had originally wanted the Record Club composer himself to oversee the album.... read more
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