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Seventeen Songs By Which To Snack

By Rachael Maddux on 7:00 AM on February 22, 2009

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

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Six Greatest Live Shows I Saw In 2008

By Rachael Maddux, photo by Rachael Maddux on 7:00 AM on December 28, 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

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Watch Ben Folds Five's Reinhold Messner reunion show

By Rachael Maddux on 1:24 PM on October 23, 2008

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

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

By Rachael Maddux on 2:47 PM on September 19, 2008

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

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

By Rachael Maddux on 11:39 AM on September 18, 2008

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

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Ben Folds Five reunite for first show in nearly a decade

By Jeremy Medina on 11:00 AM on September 4, 2008

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

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