Paste's 100 Best Living Songwriters #1-10
Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan, Leonard Cohen... read more
Paste's 100 Best Living Songwriters #11-20
Van Morrison, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, Paul Simon, Willie Nelson... read more
Paste's 100 Best Living Songwriters #21-30
Tom Petty, Radiohead, R.E.M., Lucinda Williams, Elton John and Bernie Taupin... read more
Paste's 100 Best Living Songwriters #31-40
Led Zeppelin, Smokey Robinson, Pete Townshend, Beck... read more
Paste's 100 Best Living Songwriters #41-50
Public Enemy, Ryan Adams, Cat Stevens, Sufjan Stevens, Loretta Lynn... read more
Paste's 100 Best Living Songwriters #51-60
Sly Stone, Morrissey, James Brown, Aimee Mann, Paul Westerberg... read more
Paste's 100 Best Living Songwriters #61-70
Allen Toussaint, Conor Oberst, Charles Thompson, Sting... read more
Paste's 100 Best Living Songwriters #71-80
Michael Jackson, PInk Floyd, Ron Sexsmith, Over the Rhine... read more
Paste's 100 Best Living Songwriters #81-90
Nick Cave, Victoria Williams, Parliament, Lyle Lovett, Sam Beam, David Bazan, They Might Be Giants, Fleetwood Mac, John Darnielle, The Flaming Lips read more
Paste's 100 Best Living Songwriters: The List
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Paste's 100 Best Living Songwriters: The Readers' Poll
Check out Paste readers' picks... read more
Editorial #22
Looking through the issue for which I’m currently writing this editorial, I noticed several omissions from the 100 Best Living Songwriters list. read more
Culture: Googie Architecture
Back to the Future: Disappearing “Googie” architecture evokes space-age past read more
4 to Watch: Anathallo
Years ago in Michigan, a group of boys created a holiday... read more
Culture: Julian Beever
On the streets of London, gaping holes in the pavement threaten to swallow passers-by read more
Built To Spill
As his band’s first album in five years looms large on the indie-gone-major horizon, Doug Martsch... read more
Dolly Parton
At a stop on Dolly Parton’s last tour, I sat, amazed, at the people who filed in next to me. To my left... read more
His Name Is Alive
You’d think they’d never seen a washing machine before. That’s what went through my mind... read more
Brooklyn’s Hem Casts A Spell
Magic seems to follow atmospheric, chamber-folk collective Hem... read more
Paste's 100 Best Living Songwriters #91-100
T Bone Burnett, Outkast, Jay Farrar, Josh Ritter, Jimmy Cliff, Patti Smith, Sam Phillips, Joseph Arthur, Alejandro Escovedo, Drive-By Truckers read more

