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Chairlift: Something

If there’s a band that can get away with writing “Amanaemonesia,” a five-minute single about magic and a fictional disease, it’s Chairlift. After all, this is the band that sang about garbage and pencils on its 2009 debut, Does You Inspire You. But with a few exceptions — including the aforementioned opening track — the Brooklyn-based outfit is more sentimental than silly on its latest release, Something.   read more

New York Provides Music Festival for Foodies

Thankfully, music festivals have been stepping up their game when it comes to supplying a variety of food options beyond the typical spread of pizza and corndogs....  read more

Lilith Fair 2010 Featuring Newcomers Brandi Carlile, Janelle Monae, Miranda Lambert

Next year’s Lilith Fair revival will feature Brandi Carlile, Janelle Monae and Miranda Lambert among festival veterans Tegan and Sara, Indigo Girls and Sheryl Crow....  read more

Fourteen Catchiest Apple Ads (Plus, Who's That Singing In The New Nano Commercial?)

With their clean lines, bright hues, tech-forward features and cultural cache, it often seems like Apple products simply sell themselves. But what, then, of the hundreds of equally stylish—and so often mesmerizing—television ads the company's shelled out for over the years? Are they just for our amusement? Well, no, but sometimes they might as well be. There are few other ad campaigns with the capacity to stop TV viewers in their commercial-break tracks from the sofa to the fridge, and few others worth seeking out on YouTube even after you've gone to great TiVo-related lengths to avoid them the first...  read more

Heartless Bastards, Wussy, Chairlift, Many More to Play Cincinatti's MidPoint Music Fest, Starting Thursday

Over 270 bands on-the-brink will get stage time in Cincinnati's indie-rock showcase, the MidPoint Music Festival, which spans this Thursday-Saturday, Sept. 24-26....  read more

Watch the Avett Brothers Perform Off-Stage at the Newport Folk Festival

During festival season, the folks who make up Paste really love watching our favorite artists take the stage. But over the last year, we've also enjoyed asking musicians like Jose Gonzales, Joe Pug, Grace Potter and Chairlift to do some performing off-stage....  read more

Getting to Know... Chairlift

Chances are, you've heard at least 30 seconds of a Chairlift song—the bouncy pop of "Bruises" was used to launch Apple's fourth generation iPod Nano this past spring...  read more

All Points West 2009 Day Two: White Rabbits, ...Trail of Dead, St. Vincent, Kool Keith, Neko Case and More

“New York’s a pretty cool place,” lisped Tool’s Maynard Keenan from the All Points West main stage...  read more

Paste's Sick Songs About Health

President Barack Obama's used a prime-time news conference recently to specifically call for a U.S. healthcare reform push, and it kept the interwebs buzzing with, well, some healthy debates. This talk isn't new by any means; for weeks, Obama's been tweeting up a storm about healthcare. Which got us thinking: There sure are a lot of (sick) songs about health, doctors, medicine and so. So while the debate continues, below are but a few healthcare-themed songs to keep you feeling robust and full of vigor. Feel free to leave your favorites in the comments....  read more

Bonnaroo 2009: Chairlift Plays on the Ferris Wheel

This year at Bonnaroo, we had the chance to catch up with Chairlift for a ride on the ferris wheel and an acoustic performance. Click above to watch the video....  read more