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Ed O'Brien Confirms Radiohead "WILL BE MAKING AN ALBUM" to be Released in 2010

Win Free Tickets to Where the Wild Things Are

Passion Pit, Friendly Fires, Animal Collective Remix Phoenix on Upcoming Album

Ellen Page Writing HBO Comedy Series

Deer Tick Adds Neko Case Dates to Tour

Terry Gilliam Finally Gets His Don Quixote

Marge Simpson to Grace Cover of November Playboy

Amy Winehouse to Release New Album in 2010?

David Byrne, Sarah Silverman, Billy Corgan, More Tap into the Unconscious at Carl Jung Red Book Discussion

Elvis Presley's Grandson Lands $5 Million Recording Contract

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Reviews.
Good Hair

Good Hair

With director Jeff Stilson, Chris Rock delves into the socio-economic issues surrounding the fashion of the day and the industry of products that support it, unraveling a surprisingly complex web of forces that are applied—literally and figuratively—to a woman’s head ...

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Jesus Lizard

The Jesus Lizard: Touch and Go Reissues

The Jesus Lizard made subsequent groups classified under the increasingly useless umbrella of “indie rock” look and sound like whimpering newborns, tinkering with instruments containing too many strings, staring into the middle distance and ruffling absolutely no one...

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An Education

An Education

The film has star power behind the camera, with Lone Scherfig directing and Nick Hornby writing the screenplay, but the film’s nuance comes from its two lead actors—relative newcomer Carey Mulligan and the ever-reliable Peter Sarsgaard—who enrich a conventional story that, otherwise, runs on little more than air ...

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NPR Fall Music Preivew

  • On this edition of NPR Music's All Songs Considered we spin some of the albums we're most looking forward to coming out this fall. Hear sneak previews of new music from The Flaming Lips, choral versions of classic Kinks songs by Ray Davies, Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova of The Swell Season, a collaboration between The Black Keys and some of the biggest names in hip-hop, The Gossip, and more.

Band of the Week.
 Band of the Week - Noah and the Whale

Noah and the Whale

Hometown: London
Band Members:
Charlie Fink (vocals, guitar), Doug Fink (drums), Urby Whale (bass) Tom Hobden (fiddle) Album: The First Days of Spring
For Fans Of: Belle & Sebastian, Bon Iver, The Dodos
The coping begins in procession, with booming tympani drums setting the pace for a slow, drudging march as a lone horn sounds. This is a eulogy, of sorts, for Noah and the Whale lead singer Charlie Fink's relationship with his longtime girlfriend Laura Marling, whose back-up vocals uplifted Fink's wistful lyrics of unrequited love on his band's 2008 debut ...

Noah and the Whale

Noah and the Whale

The First Days of Spring

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 The Ramones

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Go on Vacation with Paste and Cayamo

  • What are you doing Feb. 21-26, 2010? Come with Paste on the Cayamo cruise, a six day floating music festival (Miami to Belize to Mexico) featuring a who’s who of singer-songwriters playing morning to night all over Norwegian Cruise Line's Norwegian Dawn . Headliners include Lyle Lovett, Emmylou Harris, John Hiatt, Steve Earle, Buddy Miller, Brandi Carlile and Robert Earl Keen. Check out the whole list here. Paste has been a sponsor on Cayamo the past two years and we’re excited to be back! We hope you’ll join us. If you are coming, send us a note at letters@pastemagazine.com and you’ll be invited to a Paste reader party on the ship!

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    Do What You Want, Be What You Are: The Music of Daryl Hall and John Oates

    Taking its title from one of their earliest singles, a song that has always summed up the duo’s individual and collective philosophy of being true to themselves, DO WHAT YOU WANT, BE WHAT YOU ARE: THE MUSIC OF DARYL HALL AND JOHN OATES marks the first comprehensive multi-CD, multi-label deluxe box set compilation ever assembled from their entire career’s work, four CDs containing 74 tracks (16 of them previously unreleased). One of the most long-awaited box sets in pop music history will be available at physical and digital retail outlets starting October 6th through RCA/Legacy, a division of SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT.

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Issue 56 out now!

Pulitzer Prize-nominated author and Paste books editor Charles McNair pens the cover story of our latest issue, an essay examining Where the Wild Things Are's rise from children's book classic to forthcoming major motion picture. Elsewhere, we sit down with the Monsters of Folk (M. Ward, Conor Oberst, Jim James and Mike Mogis), discuss anger and growing up with Patton Oswalt and review every single Beatles album. Paste 56 is on newsstands now.

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Paste Issue 56 - Web Extras

Paste Culture Club

Low Anthem

Click here to see The Low Anthem live in the Paste studio.

Paste Sampler

just a few of the many artists on this month's sampler

Castanets
"Down The Line"

Vivian Girls
"When I'm Gone"

Japandroids
"Wet Hair"

Os Mutantes
"Teclar"

Hightide Blues
"Dreamin' Alone"