Staff Picks - Rachael Maddux (assistant editor)
Here's the list of my top albums of 2008, which I begrudgingly cobbled together after being told, no, I was not allowed to vote for last year's Everybodyfields album in all ten spots. Don't believe anyone who tells you music journalists have it easy! Life is hard.... read more
Found in: Blogs, Ctrl-VStaff Picks - Josh Jackson (editor-in-chief)
We've just released our collective Top 50 at Paste, and there's been the usual response both on our site and others' about what you think we missed, what we got wrong and what the list really should have looked like. Since this was a collaborative effort with votes from staff and some of our regular critics, everyone would have made this list a little differently, including me. Here's my personal top 10 (i.e. the actual 10 best albums this year).1. Bon Iver—For Emma, Forever AgoSome albums stampede their way into your brain, others creep in during the middle of the... read more
Found in: Blogs, High GravitySigns of Life 2008: Best Music
Check out Paste's top 50 albums of 2008... read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesAmidst busy and tour-filled year, Hot Chip unloads new EP's
The boys of Hot Chip sure have had a massively busy 2008. They just put out a new album in February and have been touring ever since. Now, they're talking new EP's, tour dates and songs. Nope, you're not confusing them with Coldplay (though you'd be forgiven, those boys have a lot going on as well.) Hopefully new live drummer Leo Taylor, who recently finished a solo album, isn't ready to run for the hills quite yet.... read more
Found in: Concerts, NewsAustin City Limits 2008 - Day 1
Photos taken at Austin City Limits by Rob Inderrieden... read more
Found in: Blogs, 1000 WordsMonolith Festival 2008: Day 1
For those who have never been to the Red Rocks Amphitheatre, picture an impenetrable mountain fortress. A skyscraper’s worth of stairs runs up and around the main stage, and two towering, triangular rock formations jut forth from the earth, framing an indescribably vast, epic scene.... read more
Found in: Blogs, FestivusMonolith Festival 2008 - Day 1
[Above: Erin Ivey]Photos taken by Mark C. Austin at Red Rocks Amphitheatre... read more
Found in: Blogs, 1000 WordsMusicfest NW 2008
Musicfest NW: Stumptown’s annual movable feast Austin has its SXSW and ACL Fest; New York has CMJ; Chicago has the Pitchfork Festival while Seattle and Bumbershoot remain hand-in-glove. Even as the music industry suffers through another in a long line of financially declining years, the list of noteworthy regional music events nevertheless goes on and on with nary an end in sight. ... read more
Found in: Blogs, FestivusWhich artist has created the best album of 2008 so far?
Vote in PasteMagazine.com's latest poll... ... read more
Found in: Music, NewsPeter Gabriel to cover Vampire Weekend
And it feels so unnatural, Peter Gabriel too. Forget the Summer Olympics, the real passing of the torch will be taking place in the recording studio. With Big Blue Ball finally released after cooking on the shelves of Gabriel's Wiltshire recording studio for nearly two decades, the former Genesis frontman will be dropping the sledgehammer on the heir apparent to his afropop superstardom: Vampire Weekend. As Stereogum reports, Gabriel plans to cover VW's "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa", which cheekily namechecks him. ... read more
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