Son Volt: Honky Tonk

By Justin Cober-Lake at 3:45 PM on March 5, 2013

From the end of Uncle Tupelo to the first round of Son Volt to Jay Farrar's solo career to the new Son Volt, the band has been taking Americana traditions and playing with them and turning them into idiosyncratic sounds that allowed the group to move past the early alt-country movement and have sustained importance.  read more

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Chills, Thrills & SPILLS: 19 Great Songs About Spilling Stuff

By Steve LaBate at 9:29 AM on November 19, 2010

When I reached for the glass I’d just hand-juiced, I clumsily knocked its contents all over the counter. My mind began to wander to all the great songs in which other substances are spilled... milk, blood, wine, oil, guts, the beans. Before long, I had a king-hell playlist, and now I’m sharing it with you.  read more

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Ben Gibbard, Jay Farrar and John Roderick - New York, NY - Webster Hall - 10/28/09

By Paste Staff at 10:12 AM on October 30, 2009

Photos taken by Eric Ryan Anderson at Webster Hall...  read more

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Jay Farrar and Ben Gibbard Announce Kerouac Live Dates

By Gage Henry at 12:00 PM on September 15, 2009

Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard have lately been devoting their artistry to converting Jack Kerouac's spirited prose into song and verse, a collaboration album known as One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur. To support their project, which is slated for an Oct. 20 debut, they'll be hosting a special series of four concerts around the U.S. where they'll perform songs from the record along with other surprise material....  read more

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20 More Musicians To Follow On Twitter

By Josh Jackson at 11:25 AM on September 1, 2009

Since last we scanned the Twitterverse for our favorite musicians, Trent Reznor has given up the Twitter ghost, but plenty of other musicians have begun updating in his place. These are just some of my favorites. 1. Camera Obscura - camera_obscura_ This Scottish band has released one of my favorite albums this year. Best recent tweet: Just been to collect my bike. Sometimes, cycling in Glasgow is a lot like the escape scene at the start of Raiders of the Lost Ark. K Runner-up: Amsterdam to glasgow. 90 mins spent in full view of a filthy urchin feasting gleefully on...  read more

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Jay Farrar and Ben Gibbard Talk Kerouac Project

By Catherine Prewitt at 2:45 PM on August 13, 2009

The Death Cab for Cutie and Son Volt frontmen explain to Paste the creation of One Fast Move or I’m Gone...  read more

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Wilco: Wilco (The Album)/Son Volt: American Central Dust

By Tim Regan-Porter at 7:00 AM on June 30, 2009

Admittedly, a joint review of the latest albums from...  read more

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Catching Up With... Son Volt's Jay Farrar

By Jay Sweet at 4:30 PM on June 23, 2009

Son Volt’s new release, American Central Dust, its third in four years, finds alt-country purveyor Jay Farrar embracing...  read more

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Tales of the Coffin Nail: 27 Smoking Songs That'll leave you Breathless

By Steve LaBate at 4:30 AM on June 12, 2009

Aside from that one weekend on the eve of 7th grade, when my parents left me with my older sister, I’ve never been a smoker. When I actually inhaled, it always tore my throat up so bad I couldn’t even finish a whole cigarette. Still, that weekend, a random, inconsequential moment occurred that I still—for some strange reason—remember in astonishing detail.  It was the night before the first day of school—late August 1991 in the Atlanta suburbs—and an intense thunderstorm had just rolled through. My sister was already asleep in her basement apartment, so I took my boombox down to...  read more

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Classic Paste: The Best of Issues 16-18 (June - November 2005)

By Steve LaBate at 7:39 AM on May 29, 2009

(JUST A FEW MORE REASONS TO HELP SAVE PASTE)Next week, I'll celebrate my 6th anniversary at this magazine. When I started as Paste's second-ever intern on June 1, 2003, we were still a tiny operation. Only five of us were in the office full-time: publisher Nick Purdy, editor Josh Jackson, assistant editor Jason Killingsworth, myself (who would go on to become associate editor) and my intern cohort, Steven Bevilaqua. Other important folks—like senior/film editor and future Paste president Tim Porter, design director José Reyes, and future associate publisher Joe Kirk—were working part-time, since Paste couldn't yet support a full staff. Back then, we were in our...  read more

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