Best of What's Next: The Shaky Hands
At the intersection of The Shins' faux-British Invasion jingle-jangle and The Allman Brothers' raggedy Southern-fried boogie... read more
Watch Death Cab for Cutie, Tween Vampires Converge on Hot Topic
According to Twilight, vampires, those sexy creatures of the night with good hair, hang out in a dark spot completely devoid of happiness: high school. But here in the real world, we know there’s a much more fitting spot for bloodsuckers to meet and buy their favorite band’s t-shirts: Hot Topic.... read more
Jay-Z Signs The Ting Tings to Roc Nation
Jay-Z’s ongoing relationship with indie rock continues to flourish after signing The Ting Tings to his Roc Nation label, according to British news sources.... read more
X, Calexico, More Play West Coast X-Mas Shows
L.A. punk pioneers, X, want to deck the halls with a special set of West Coast holiday shows in December that will coincide with the release of their pair of Christmas songs, “Santa Clause Is Coming to Town” and “Jingle Bells.”... read more
Black Lips Plot Australia/New Zealand Tour for 2010
As far as most folks are concerned, the best-known rock act from New Zealand is Flight of the Conchords. But with that band’s penchant for folk comedy, it seems the Kiwis could use something a little more rowdy. Enter The Black Lips.... read more
After 40 Years, Folk Singer Elyse Makes Triumphant Return
In 1968, things were looking up for Elyse. The acoustic folkie had just released her self-titled debut album, and things really started rolling with a performance on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show and write-ups in Newsweek and the L.A. Free Press. The record nestled itself into the Top 40 and was a modest hit.... read more
The Strange Boys Sign to Rough Trade, Tour With Julian Casablancas, Prep New Album for 2010
A band name like “The Strange Boys” could allude to all sorts of things. Is their music particularly strange? Are the band members themselves strange fellas? Are they all pre-pubescent gents just trying to strike out against their please-be-normal parents? Turns out, none of these are true. In fact, maybe the strangest thing about them is that you haven’t gotten to know them yet. The band’s pours garage-rock grime over catchy pop tunes like pros. Remedy that right here.... read more
Band of Horses, Tom Morello, BRMC, More Fight Cancer
Nobody likes cancer. Especially when it affects kids. That’s why acts as diverse as Band of Horses, Shirley Manson (of Garbage) and Sea Wolf have banded together with the Pablove Foundation for a benefit concert to raise money for youth cancer.... read more
Calling All Deadhead Librarians: Your Job Hunt is Over
Dear Website Visitor, Please answer the following questions as they apply to you. Answering yes to one qualifies you to continue on to the next: 1. Can you read? 2. Do you love The Grateful Dead? 3. No, like really, really love The Grateful Dead? 4. As in, do you love them enough that you’d want to potentially spend the rest of your professional life sorting, cataloging and archiving Grateful Dead music and related literature, manuscripts and relics into one of the country’s most impressive Grateful Dead library collections? 5. Do you have a master’s degree in archives management?... read more
Magnetic Fields Announce New Album, Realism, Out Jan. 26
As a sort of musical renaissance man, Stephin Merritt has come a long way with the Magnetic Fields (amongst other side projects), tweaking fluid pop tracks with his own production expertise and contributing as many instruments as he’s able to play for their past seven full-length albums.... read more
Molina & Johnson: Molina & Johnson
Indie rock vets struggle to pump life into their off-the-cuff collaboration Between them, Will Johnson (Centro-Matic, South San Gabriel) and Jason Molina (Songs: Ohia, Magnolia Electric Co.) have spent the last 15 years filling in the empty spaces on the continuum stretching between Neil Young and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, maintaining a prolific pace that both insures a sprawling catalog and indicates a general hesitance to spend too much time dwelling on any one project. That makes them a suitable pair, and Johnson & Molina—the result of a laidback 10-day recording session in Johnson’s home studio in Denton, Texas—sounds pretty much... read more
Catching Up With... Wale
Things finally seem to be falling into place for Wale... read more
My Morning Jacket Takes Over Fox's American Dad
Seth MacFarlane’s American Dad is about to find out what a wonderful man Jim James is.... read more
Listen to the Entire Them Crooked Vultures Album
Back in September, Paste drew up the ideal plan for Them Crooked Vultures to take over the world in the most classically rock ‘n’ roll fashion possible: play some live shows, avoid the press and let the good word spread naturally. Vultures’ power trio basically followed our advice, too. For awhile, that is. (Oh, hello, magazine cover.) Leaked song snippets and live YouTube clips were all we knew of these birds for their first months of existence. So for that mystique, Grohl, Jones and Homme, we thank you.... read more
Hot Chip's New Album, One Life Strand, to Drop in February
Almost two years to the day from when Hot Chip released Made in the Dark, the London band is coming back into the light to release its fourth album, One Life Strand, on Feb. 10, 2010 on Astralwerks.... read more
The Soft Pack Announces Debut Album Coming in February
We told you they were a band to watch. And on Feb. 2, 2010, they’ll be a band readily available for you to hear as well—The Soft Pack will release their self-titled, debut album on Kemado Records.... read more
Lil Wayne Documentary The Carter Gets Straight-to-DVD Release
After stirring up both critical reviews and a lawsuit over the past year, Lil Wayne documentary The Carter is going to straight to DVD, its public release occurring next week.... read more
Hem: Twelfth Night
Lilting, lovely soundtrack from this summer’s Shakespeare in the Park production Each summer, a star-studded cast in conjunction with the Public Theater mounts a Shakespeare play in Central Park, for which people wait in the ticket line for hours. Brooklyn band Hem worked closely with Daniel Sullivan, the director of this year’s critically acclaimed Twelfth Night (starring Anne Hathaway, Audra McDonald, David Pittu, Jon Patrick Walker, and Raul Esparza), to create a soundtrack for the production, which has now been recorded and released.... read more
Getting to Know... Old Canes
Old Canes is a labor of love, borne out of necessity and a lack of amplifiers... read more
Pixies Bring Rain Machine Along on November Tour Dates
As if Kyp Malone needed any more help building buzz for his TV on the Radio side project—the similarly freak-funky Rain Machine—he’s now booked on one of the most hype-heavy tours of the fall: The Pixies’ Full Album Doolittle tour.... read more
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