Sigur Rós to Broadcast Live Interactive Show Tomorrow

Sigur Rós to Broadcast Live Interactive Show Tomorrow

Hot off the release of their impressive seventh studio album, "Kveikur":http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2013/06/sigur-ros--kveikur.html, Sigur Rós will broadcast a live, interactive show to fans across the world this Wednesday.  read more

Watch The Civil Wars' In-Studio Video for "The One That Got Away"

Watch The Civil Wars' In-Studio Video for "The One That Got Away"

Just a week after releasing "The One That Got Away," The Civil Wars just posted a behind-the-scenes video the track.   read more

Austra: Olympia

Austra: <i>Olympia</i>

Many note Katie Stelmanis’ voice when talking about Austra, and rightfully so, but to say it is “classically trained” is an undersell-and-a-half.  read more

Watch The Postal Service's Video for "A Tattered Line of String"

Watch The Postal Service's Video for "A Tattered Line of String"

Laundry gone wild.   read more

Overseas: Overseas

Overseas: <i>Overseas</i>

Overseas is a collaboration between David Bazan, Will Johnson and Matt and Bubba Kadane.  read more

Stephen Kellogg: Blunderstone Rookery

Stephen Kellogg: <i>Blunderstone Rookery</i>

"You get what you pay for, and sometimes it's bad." So sings Stephen Kellogg on his seventh solo album, during the shiny folk-rock waltz of "The Best." As it turns out, he's very much right.   read more

Spectrals: Sob Story

Spectrals: <i>Sob Story</i>

Chameleonic U.K. power-poppers Spectrals—the duo of brothers Louis and Will Jones—shed the slings and arrows siblinghood might present and focus on crafting some of the most heartfelt melodic pop since Big Star on their new LP, Sob Story.  read more

John Vanderslice: Dagger Beach

John Vanderslice: <i>Dagger Beach</i>

Dagger Beach can, at times, feel a little out there—even for John Vanderslice.  read more

Heliotropes: A Constant Sea

Heliotropes: <i>A Constant Sea</i>

When Roky Erickson sang "I Walked With A Zombie" on his 1981 album with the Aliens, The Evil One, the drawling croak of the Texas psych-rock hero gave the impression of a man in recovery. He’d had his B-movie horror moment but gotten out alive. When Heliotropes covered the same song in the fall of 2012, Jessica Numsuwankijkul's dazed, disaffected singing made it seem like not only had she not escaped the walking dead—she’d become one of them.  read more

Check out Issue #97 of PASTE.COM featuring Mavis Staples

Check out Issue #97 of PASTE.COM featuring Mavis Staples

Mavis Staples, actor Craig Robinson, Best of What's Next band Yellowbirds, Matt Stax's new Shakespeare-meets-hip-hop musical, Appalachian cuisine, The Last of Us, Father John Misty and more.  read more

Lissie Announces Release Date for New Album Back to Forever

Lissie Announces Release Date for New Album <i>Back to Forever</i>

Back to Forever was recorded at a studio in downtown Los Angeles and features guest vocals from Catherine and Allison Pierce of the Pierces and Barbara Gruska of The Belle Brigade.   read more

Listen to a New Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros Track, "This Life"

Listen to a New Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros Track, "This Life"

"This Life" is less jaunty than "Better Days," and it boasts a full gospel choir, strong soulful overtones and Ebert's haunting vocals. Full of feeling, the frontman's powerful voice shifts from boisterous shouting to a descent someplace deeper, with Ebert sounding ragged, almost as if on the verge of tears.   read more

Watch Local Natives' "You & I" Video

Watch Local Natives' "You & I" Video

Local Natives debuted their brand new video for the track "You & I" from their second full-length album Hummingbird today. The concept for the video was written by the members of the band and was directed by Daniel Portrait with Kamp Grizzly.  read more

Sigur Rós: Kveikur

Sigur Rós: <i>Kveikur</i>

Sigur Rós has long provided a sort of hymnal template for the secular masses.  read more

The Mantles: Long Enough to Leave

The Mantles: <i>Long Enough to Leave</i>

San Francisco is just going to have to be one of those places where the residual spirit of the Summer of Love saturates all creative endeavors until further notice.   read more

Listen to Deer Tick's New Song "The Rock"

Listen to Deer Tick's New Song "The Rock"

The new single from Deer Tick's upcoming fifth album, Negativity, is a heartbreaking tune titled "The Rock."  read more

Watch Kanye West's American Psycho-Inspired Short

Watch Kanye West's <i>American Psycho</i>-Inspired Short

Instead of Huey Lewis and the News, Disick raves about Kanye and his newest release before taking an ax to Kim Kardashian's friend, Jonathan Cheban, in the Jared Leto role.   read more

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Journey to Headline Atlanta's Music Midtown

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Journey to Headline Atlanta's Music Midtown

The Music Midtown festival in Atlanta has announced Red Hot Chili Peppers and Journey as headliners for the 2013 music festival.   read more

Kanye West: Yeezus

Kanye West: <i>Yeezus</i>

The low-point on Yeezus, Kanye West's sixth album, is "I Am A God," a rhythmically rote electro-buzz that inflates Kanye's legendary ego to (literally) biblical proportions.  read more

Franz Ferdinand Announces Tour Dates

Franz Ferdinand Announces Tour Dates

The tour is set to kick off in Europe on Aug. 9 before making its way back across the pond to the U.S. in October.   read more

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