A Good Cause that Rocks: Indie Bands Turn to Kickstarter for Financial Help

Being in a young, indie band is tricky stuff: Try to stay afloat on your own, and you're eating Ramen for every meal of your tour and peddling your personal possessions to buy gas for the van. Try to make a little extra cash here and there, and you may end up with a Band of Horses type debacle. But instead of selling plasma for $30 a pop or tap-dancing on street corners for spare change to press a few more LPs, scantily funded artists are hitting up an innovative new website that puts the power to help out in...  read more

Atlanta's Corndogorama Festival Announces 2009 Lineup

Chances are, the last time most of our readers thought about a corn dog was in the fifth grade, when the fried delicacy was considered a treat in a lineup of questionable cafeteria fare. But to music fans around Atlanta, the words "corn dog" conjure up warm memories of a different kind: the annual Corndogorama Music Festival, now in its 13th year.  ...  read more

Current Events: When Pirates Attack - Paste counts down the Top 20 Best Pirate Songs not appearing in a Disney movie or theme-park ride

 You can't turn on the news or pick up a paper these days without noticing a rather strange but kinda awesome (from dry land, at least) new phenomenon: the return of pirates to the high seas! OK, I know what you're gonna say—this isn't some kiddie movie starring Johnny Depp as a Keith Richards-impersonating swashbuckler; this stuff is for real! Even so, you gotta admire the moxie of those Somali scallywags. I mean, it takes some pretty big balls—even for a crew of buccaneers—to knock off a Saudi oil tanker carrying $100 million in crude. Now that's some 21st-century-style booty!...  read more