Reviews :: Paste

Home
Reviews

Lollapalooza 2007: Day One

By Althea Legaspi at 2:31 PM on August 6, 2007

With 130 bands spread across nine stages, Lollapalooza 2007 transformed Chicago... read more

Meat Puppets: Rise to Your Knees

By Rob O'Connor at 12:00 AM on August 6, 2007

Fear and loathing on the reunion trail read more

A Fine Frenzy: One Cell in The Sea

By David Mead at 12:00 AM on August 6, 2007

What a difference 22 years makes read more

Emerson Hart: Cigarettes and Gasoline

By Chick Sampson at 12:00 AM on August 6, 2007

Dude, you sound just like that guy! read more

Jason Isbell: Sirens of the Ditch

By Steve LaBate at 12:00 AM on August 6, 2007

Latest ex-Trucker explores his musical identity on solo debut read more

The Bourne Ultimatum

By Tim Basham at 4:10 PM on August 2, 2007

Matt Damon returns as the recovering amnesiac and ex-CIA agent Jason Bourne in The Bourne Ultimatum... read more

Talk to Me

By Tim Basham at 10:33 AM on July 27, 2007

Often times when a biographic film claims to be “inspired by true events"... read more

The Simpsons Movie

By Sean Gandert at 10:29 AM on July 27, 2007

Coming after 18 seasons, it’s impossible to view The Simpsons Movie without having some context. read more

Chris Epting

By Charles McNair at 12:00 AM on July 26, 2007

Led Zeppelin Crashed Here: The Rock and Roll Landmarks of North America
It’s a great book idea, the kind that flares to life after eight PBRs... read more

Brad Land

By Charles McNair at 12:00 AM on July 26, 2007

Pilgrims Upon The Earth: A Novel
Holden Caulfield was a whining pussy... read more

Karen Abbott

By Candice Dyer at 12:00 AM on July 26, 2007

Sin in the Second City
Ada and Minna Everleigh, the Victorian sisters behind the expression "get laid"... read more

Aurelia C. Scott

By Dawn Eagle at 12:00 AM on July 26, 2007

Otherwise Normal People, Inside the Thorny World of Competitive Rose Gardening
Can perfection be improved? Ask... read more

John Vanderslice: Emerald City

By Matt Fink at 12:00 AM on July 24, 2007

Prodigious singer/songwriter reflects on personal and political turmoil on sixth album in seven years read more

Sebadoh: The Freed Man

By David Marek at 12:00 AM on July 24, 2007

Indie rock, you’ve gone soft. It’s hard to tell precisely when it happened, but it was probably sometime after Archers of Loaf broke up, Fender started charging thousands of dollars for Jaguar guitars and Jeff Mangum went into hiding (presumably with J.D. Salinger, Elvis Presley and the Lindbergh baby). Regardless of why or when, indie rock in 2007 has lost its grit, misplaced its edge and turned into Voxtrot. That’s why it’s so refreshing to hear The Freed Man, the 80+ minute 1989 debut by Sebadoh, the brainchild of lo-fi rockers Lou Barlow and Eric Gaffney. Even though it would... read more