SXSW Spotlight: Alt-J

There’s something to be said for a band that fills in a crowd so deep the sidewalks and parking lots across the street and on all four sides of the venue are full of standing bodies. Bodies that are blistering in Austin’s sun, sitting in smoke clouds from their neighbors, standing in-between parked cars with a view blocked by a giant fence acting as capacity control. Yet it was apparent today that when you are Alt-J, if you play, they come.   read more

The 50 Best Songs of 2012

After tallying ballots of Paste staff and writers, which included nearly 300 different selections, we present our top 50 songs of the year.  read more