Music :: Features

Listening To Old Voices

By Paste Staff at 12:00 AM on August 1, 2004

Frank Sinatra, Chairman of the Bored to my barely adolescent ears, was mangling The Beatles’ “Something” on a late-’60s TV special... read more

Late Summer Festivals

By Paste Staff at 12:00 AM on July 16, 2004

Here's the followup to our Summer Festival Preview. As we draw closer to fall, there are still plenty of events to satisfy everyone's musical appetite... read more

Matt Nathanson

By Katie Vesser at 12:00 AM on July 12, 2004

Just before his show at Atlanta’s Cotton Club, Matt Nathanson hurries to scribble down his set list. You could even say he looks a little nervous... read more

Lee Gates

By James Calemine at 12:00 AM on July 7, 2004

Born in Pontotoc, Miss., in 1937, Lee Gates moved to Milwaukee as a teenager and he’s been playing juke joints there for over fifty years. After several rotations of his new debut album, it’s evident his playing evokes a genetic sound resembling his legendary cousin, bluesman Albert Collins... read more

Dios

By Jeffrey Terich at 12:00 AM on June 10, 2004

Of all the articles written about Dios thus far, three specific things about the band members are always mentioned: They hail from Hawthorne, once home to The Beach Boys... read more

Allison Moorer

By Wes Orshoski at 12:00 AM on June 1, 2004

It’s a Friday in March and Manhattan is abuzz. Night has come and it’s happy hour in the lobby bar of Allison Moorer’s obnoxiously trendy 27th Street hotel, but she’s oblivious... read more

Los Lobos

By Bud Scoppa at 12:00 AM on June 1, 2004

In an old brick building on the gritty end of Sunset Boulevard, the five members of Los Lobos are nearing the end of a day of TV and press interviews... read more

Mystery Is A Farce

By Jay Sweet at 12:00 AM on June 1, 2004

Canadians are a funny bunch. Jim Carrey, Mike Myers, John Candy, even the members of the Cowboy Junkies: all funny... read more

Pedro the Lion

By David Drury at 12:00 AM on June 1, 2004

You’ve been lied to. Achilles Heel, the new album from Pedro the Lion, was supposed to be the anticipated and triumphant third act... read more

Van Hunt

By Stephanie Ramage at 12:00 AM on June 1, 2004

Strolling into Six Feet Under, a restaurant on Atlanta’s Eastside, Van Hunt looks like a jive-era GHOST summoned from the cemetery across the street... read more

The Magnetic Fields

By Matt Fink at 12:00 AM on June 1, 2004

Stephin Merritt certainly doesn’t fit the singer/songwriter stereotype. Had he been born 50 years earlier, he’d have been locking elbows with George Gershwin and Hoagy Carmichael... read more

the subdudes

By Charlene Blevins at 12:00 AM on June 1, 2004

Post-impressionist painter Paul Gauguin once said, “In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.” But it was Thomas Edison who really hit the heart of creativity. When asked by a Harper’s journalist in 1934 what laboratory rules Edison wanted him to observe, Edison bristled, “Hell! There ain’t no rules around here! We’re trying to accomplish somep’n!” The subdudes surely qualify for mastery under Gauguin’s definition. They took their collective musical heritage of raucous Louisiana roots rock, shook it up in a gris-gris bag... read more