Animal Collective's new album set for January release

The vaguely warranted rumors that popped up this week about...  read more

HBO's Entourage picked up for sixth season

Good news all around for HBO's Entourage...  read more

M. Ward talks new solo album, She & Him Volume Two

It's been a little over two years since M. Ward released his last solo album, Post War, but...  read more

Carla Bruni covers Moldy Peaches' "Anyone Else But You" for French television series Taratata

It seems that the first lady of France isn't content to...  read more

Magnolia Electric Co. schedules tour dates, preps album

Folks have been known to utter the words "Jason Molina" and "depressing" in the same breath...  read more

Cat Power eyes Dark End of the Street release

Cat Power will release her newest covers EP...  read more

Band of the Week: The Champion and His Burning Flame

At a little more than a year's worth of bandship, this could be considered a fledgling pursuit. However, there is a chemistry and honesty in The Champion and His Burning Flame's inaugural effort, The French EP, that begs for...  read more

Introducing Paste Digital VIP

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Last week, Paste launched a new option for subscribers...  read more

Catching Up With... Henry Rollins

Henry Rollins speaks not in drops and dribbles. When he opens his month, torrents of declarations spill out that condemn and praise in turns, ventriloquizing voices to buoy as well as others to deride...  read more

Mexican Summer record club features Dungen, more

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Following in the footsteps of Sub Pop, Merge and many others...  read more

David Byrne journals Songs of Byrne and Eno tour

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Someday in the not-too-distant future, some music critic will catalog and analyze the rise of tour and recording diaries...  read more

Buzz for Ricky Gervais to host next year's Oscars begins

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Those who caught this year's dismal Emmy Awards know that one of the lone bright spots was when...  read more

Paul Newman: 1925-2008

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Despite the fact that by the time the film opened in 1969...  read more

Band of the Week: Warm in the Wake

"It's about needing to feed the exploration part of our personalities. I mean geographically," explains vocalist and guitarist Chris Rowell, describing the mindset behind the opening track on Warm In The Wake's new digitally-released EP, Speak Plainly. "Not whatever dirty thing..."  read more

Catching Up With... Chuck Palahniuk

When a young Chuck Palahniuk pitched his novel Invisible Monsters to publishers, it was rejected because it was too disturbing. His response was to fill his next novel, Fight Club, with even more disturbing and violent events and dub himself a writer of “transgressional fiction”...  read more

Catching Up With... TV on the Radio

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For the second year in a row, a 70-year-old, man-made island in the middle of the San Francisco Bay was home to...  read more

Alex Ross named one of 25 MacArthur "Genius" fellows

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The MacArthur Fellowships were announced this week...  read more

Simon Pegg, Nick Frost rumored for Tintin adaptation

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The Tintin movie is back from the dead...  read more

Dolly Parton saves 9 to 5: The Musical

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Almost thirty years after starring in the film version of...  read more

Catching Up With... Cold War Kids

Cold War Kids are Exhibit A in most discussions about the rising influence of bloggers on the musical landscape in those heady mid-ought-years, with the buzz spreading to every kid with a keyboard and clever handle before their first...  read more