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Listen to Ben Folds Five's First Song in 12 Years

When Ben Folds Five released their final album _The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner_ twelve years ago, Ben Folds went his own way, leaving the rest of his band behind to create a solo career. But with Folds' new career spanning release _The Best Imitation of Myself: A Retrospective_, Ben Folds Five will release their first songs since 1999.  read more

Eleven Wimpy Sports Songs

Hey, the Super Bowl is tonight!  read more

For Those Not Quite Asleep (We Salute You): 12 Songs to Cure Insomnia

Today's List of the Day goes out to to all of you exhausted insomniacs out there. With help from the the _Paste_ staff, we've compiled a set of a dozen songs to help you sleep...  read more

Seventeen Songs By Which To Snack

Food and music are the two great loves of most people I know. Strangely, though, there seem to be very few songs written about food, perhaps because people are too busy eating it-- or, if you're Tina Fey, working it into the plotlines of your amazing and wonderful and hilarious television show-- to sing about it. Hmm. Doesn't seem fair. While you're pondering this, take a bite out of these 17 songs I've cobbled (mmm, cobbler!) together, all with titles referencing food or related to the consumption thereof, most of which aren't actually about food or the consumption thereof, but...  read more

Six Greatest Live Shows I Saw In 2008

[Above: Of Montreal gets its weird on at the Tabernacle.]My granny-hermit tendencies really showed themselves this year, and I found myself going to fewer live shows than I did in the salad days of aught-seven. (Oh, to be 23 again!) Still, I seem to have managed quality over quantity: There weren't all that many to parse through, but my favorite shows of the year sure were great.  ...  read more

Watch Ben Folds Five's Reinhold Messner reunion show

A month after Ben Folds Five played together live for the first time in eight years for MySpace's Front to Back concert series, the social networking behemoth has made good on its promise to post video of the reunion show in its entirety. Kristin from Michigan, we bet you are totally squealing right now. ...  read more

Front to back, and a little bit more: Ben Folds Five reunites in Chapel Hill

One song into Ben Folds Five's first show in eight years, the regrets were already pooling up. "If I'd known about this gig, I'd have sequenced the album differently," Folds heaved, grabbing for a water bottle as the last notes of "Narcolepsy" were swallowed by the crowd's applause. Fair enough: The song works beautifully as the opener of The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner, the band's last album, which they played in its entirety last night at UNC Chapel Hill's Memorial Hall at the behest of MySpace and for the benefit of Operation Smile. But in terms of ideal set-list...  read more

Ben Folds Five is reuniting tonight, and Paste will be there

I'm hitting the road in a few minutes, heading up to Chapel Hill, N.C. for Ben Folds Five's first live show in eight years, which I still kind of can't believe is actually happening. ...  read more

Ben Folds Five reunite for first show in nearly a decade

North Carolina native Ben Folds has a huge surprise for fans in his home state: his defunct band, Ben Folds Five, will reunite for a one-time Sept. 18 show in Chapel Hill, N.C. and play the entire track list of the band's 1999 (and final) album, The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner. Tickets go on sale Sept. 8 at Etix.com. ...  read more