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John Mayer: Battle Studies

Mayer’s eclectic musicianship almost makes up for pensive poetry Battle Studies marks the fourth release for John Mayer, who enters an arena of high-riding hopes after the soul-spilling Contiuum that graduated him to the lofty ranks of someone who could shred a six-string alongside B.B. King or Eric Clapton. Mayer’s albums were maturing one after the other, combining electric blues and clever songwriting, but he takes a few steps back with the lovelorn Battle Studies, a superficial meditation on the jagged down-slope of a relationship—the romantic blitzkrieg that recalls, among other genres, his early acoustic sound on Room for Squares....  read more

33 1/3 series opens call for submissions

If you haven't read at least a few, you've almost certainly seen them: Continuum's 33 1/3 series of book-length features on albums and their back stories. Yes, that was John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats writing fiction about Black Sabbath's Master of Reality. Yes, that was Paste Senior Contributing Editor Amanda Petrusich who researched the tale behind Nick Drake's Pink Moon and its late popularity. Yes, that was lead Decemberist Colin Meloy who analyzed The Replacements' Let it Be. And yes, that was Paste Contributer Douglas Wolk who put James Brown's Live at the Apollo under the microscope. The...  read more

Graeme Thomson

It's evident from I Shot A Man in Reno that author Graeme Thomson...  read more