Pages tagged “contest”

Wilco Launches Haiku Contest

Despite their plans to record new material in January, Wilco wants fans to contemplate the seven studio albums they’ve already released, in the band’s first-ever haiku contest....  read more

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Win Free Tickets to Where the Wild Things Are

The buzz for Spike Jonze's film adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are has gone beyond deafening. For months, trailers and teaser trailers and interviews were released in drips and drabs, fed to the cinematically-enlightened public hungry for clues on the film based off the Maurice Sendak classic....  read more

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Black Lips on the run in India following indecent exposure

The Black Lips had an, oh, shall we say, interesting weekend. On Saturday, the band posted a letter to its MySpace fans saying it was thrown off the tour in India due to "indecent exposure" for its "most raucous set." Imagine that. From there, the guys literally had to flee the scene to escape getting thrown into a supposedly tuberculosis, maggot-infested prison. "This was a cultural clashing shitstorm," the letter reads. Just one more thing to add to the already-lenghty resume of infamy. Don't let 'em fool you: This is what they live for....  read more

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Brett Dennen announces Spring tour

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This year, Paste sponsored a tour for Brett Dennen in May. And then, we got so excited about sponsoring tours that we picked up a couple more artists for the bill. And now, here comes news of Dennen's 2009 tour, in support of his album Hope for the Hopeless, as well as another collaboration with Paste....  read more

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Paste presents the 2009 Rock'n'Reel At Sea contest

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Democracy can be powerful when you get it right. Putting power in the hands of the people means that while you might not make everyone happy, you'll at least be seeing to the concerns of the majority. So if it works for the legislative and executive branches, why not for an Americana and folk-themed vacation cruise?...  read more

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