The 10 Best Comedians of the Decade (2000-2009)

By Paste Staff on 7:00 AM on November 7, 2009

Being a funny person on a stage is not easy. It takes a unique determination to stand in front of complete strangers and hope they get it the way you get it...  read more

Sitges Film Festival 2009: Amer, The Loved Ones, Doghouse, More

By Steve Dollar on 6:00 PM on November 6, 2009

What you do in Sitges, Spain, during the annual Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic, is pretty much this: Wake up at 7:30 a.m. Eat breakfast. Hit first movie at 8:30 a.m. Continue throughout day. Break for late-afternoon nap, snack, interview or hang in the lobby bar of the Hotel Melia. Go see more movies. Go to dinner. Go drinking. See a movie (maybe). Go to the late-night party that usually begins after 1 a.m. Get back to room about 4:30 a.m. (with luck). Wake up at 7:30 a.m. And repeat. For seven or eight days straight. If your eyeballs haven’t...  read more

Joshua James Tour Diary - Baltimore, MD - 10/30/09

By Joshua James on 5:30 PM on November 6, 2009

There isn’t any possible way to properly describe the events that have taken place. I want to. I feel as if I need to. But I can’t, and therefore won’t. There are many adventures I can remember. But even more that I can’t. I am noodling....  read more

The Low Anthem: "Charlie Darwin" Video (Awesome of the Day)

By Josh Jackson on 2:12 PM on November 6, 2009

I’ve talked about my love for The Low Anthem here on a few occasions, but I had to share their brand new video for the lovely song, “Charlie Darwin.” It’s done with stop-motion animation from Simon Taffe And Glenn Taunton, part of the design team behind The End of the Road Festival. With the help of a small team of painters, carpenters and handymen, the duo filmed the video at a studio in Sussex. Enjoy....  read more

The 20 Best Books of the Decade (2000-2009)

By Paste staff on 7:00 AM on November 6, 2009

Amidst a turbulent environment, a slew of memorable texts emerged in the 2000s: some fiction, some non-fiction, all worth reading and cherishing.   read more

Download Bebel Gilberto and Mark Ronson's "The Real Thing"

By Paste Staff on 2:00 PM on November 5, 2009

Download Bebel Gilberto and Mark Ronson's "The Real Thing" here.Gilberto's All in One is out now....  read more

Favorite Music of the '00s

By Andy Whitman on 9:05 AM on November 5, 2009

  Here's my current take. This could change, as early as tomorrow. I'll try to add some commentary in the days ahead.   It might be worth noting that "Favorites" does not translate to "Best." "Best" would imply some overarching knowledge of the music released in this decade, and I don't have that knowledge. It also would have to account for cultural impact, general popularity, musical innovation, and all those other factors that typically cause reviewers to agonize long into the night. I didn't agonize over this. I also didn't think about jazz, classical, or several other genres of music...  read more

The 20 Best Video Games of the Decade (2000-2009)

By Paste Staff on 7:00 AM on November 5, 2009

This will forever be known as the decade when games became more than just games. And here are 20 titles that pushed the envelope.  read more

Download Cold Cave's "Theme From Tomorrowland"

By Paste Staff on 4:00 PM on November 4, 2009

Download Cold Cave's "Theme From Tomorrowland" here.Cold Cave's Love Comes Close is out now on Matador....  read more

The 20 Best TV Shows of the Decade (2000-2009)

By Josh Jackson on 7:00 AM on November 4, 2009

This list of 20 phenomenal TV shows from 2000-2009 reinforces our belief that the young millennium has launched a new Golden Age of Television.  read more

Download Them Crooked Vultures' "Mind Eraser, No Chaser"

By Paste Staff on 2:30 PM on November 3, 2009

Download Them Crooked Vultures' "Mind Eraser, No Chaser" for free from iTunes here.Them Crooked Vultures' self-titled debut album comes out Nov. 17 on Interscope....  read more

Only a Flesh Wound: Bob Dylan as Sadistic Boxer

By Andy Whitman on 2:22 PM on November 3, 2009

  Andrew Ferguson, music critic for The Weekly Standard, throws a haymaker at the fans of Bob Dylan:If you needed more evidence, the release this month of Bob Dylan's Christmas album, Christmas in the Heart, should close the case. Dylan fans are like Baby Huey dolls, those inflatable figures with the big red nose and the rounded bottom, weighted so that when you punch them--punch hard, punch with all your might--they bounce right back, grinning the same frozen, unchangeable grin. We can only make a guess how Bob Dylan truly feels about his fans. But it can be a good,...  read more

The 50 Best Movies of the Decade (2000-2009)

By Paste Staff on 7:00 AM on November 3, 2009

We're looking at the Best of the Decade throughout the month of the November. Today's list is the 50 Best Movies from 2000 to 2009.  read more

Austin Film Festival 2009 Part Two

By Tim Basham on 3:50 PM on November 2, 2009

I don't know if festival programmers do this on purpose but sometimes you come across a documentary and a narrative that fit well together as companion pieces. This year the documentary Warrior Champions compliments the drama The Messenger. Melissa Stockwell in Warrior ChampionsWarrior ChampionsWhether they're embedded in Iraq for the Discovery Channel's acclaimed series  "Off to War" or filming about the drug wars and sky rocketing murder rate in Juarez, Mexico for the New York Times, Craig and Brent Renaud have never shied from the dangerous stories. But with Warrior Champions the filmmakers look at the other side of war by telling the story of America's paraplegic...  read more

Lou Barlow and Dinosaur Jr. Tour Diary - Kansas City - 10/26/09

By Lou Barlow on 12:50 PM on November 2, 2009

Ah, there’s espresso less than a block away from the bus. They ask me if I want sugar. I’ve never been asked if I wanted sugar in my espresso. In europe, they deliver it with a sugar packet on the side. Never heard of it pre-treated. It costs $1.93, which is, coincidentally, exactly how much a bus-adjacent double espresso is in Omaha the next day....  read more

The 50 Best Albums of the Decade (2000-2009)

By Paste staff on 7:00 AM on November 2, 2009

We had dozens of critics vote for the best new albums, and then we argued some more until we'd focused our spotlight onto the very best music created during the aughts.  read more

The 10 Best Internet Memes of the Decade (2000-2009)

By Paste Staff on 7:00 AM on November 1, 2009

Richard Dawkins minted the term "meme" to explain the movement of information...  read more

The 25 Best Horror Movies of All Time

By Sean Edgar, Stephen M. Deusner, Jeffrey Bloomer and Courtney Balestier on 7:00 AM on October 31, 2009

Few people recognize horror films for what they truly are: a form of education...  read more

Watch Fuse Interviews at Voodoo Experience All Weekend

By Paste Staff on 7:05 PM on October 30, 2009

All weekend long, Fuse will be at the Voodoo Music Experience in New Orleans, interviewing artists. You can watch these interviews in the player below. Check back to this page for new content through Sunday, or follow @PasteMagazine on Twitter to stay abreast of the updates....  read more

Lou Barlow and Dinosaur Jr. Tour Diary - Dallas/Houston/Austin/Oklahoma City

By Lou Barlow on 3:00 PM on October 30, 2009

Four shows playing with Built to Spill and their opening act, Disco Doom (sweet people from Switzerland). A four-band bill. No soundchecks for the missingmen, strict time limits, rush rush. Any groove we settled into by Atlanta is gone. Back to head down, make sure all the cords are plugged in, on and off, hacking through the sets, merch sales plummet....  read more