Camper Van Beethoven Announces 30th Anniversary Tour

By Tyler Kane at 4:15 PM on January 2, 2013

Camper Van Beethoven is back with its first album in nine years, La Costa Perdida, and to celebrate the release (and not to mention the band’s colossal 30th anniversary), the band is setting out on a month-long tour that will kick off Jan. 18 in Philadelphia. La Costa Perdida is set for release on Jan. 22. Take a look at the dates below. Camper Van Beethoven Winter Tour January 18 – Philadelphia, Pa. @ World Cafe Live ! 19 – New York, N.Y. @ Stage 48 ! 20 – Cambridge, Mass. @ The Middle East ! 23 – Augusta, Ga....  read more

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Paste mPlayer Issue #73 Is Live!

By Paste Staff at 2:31 PM on December 18, 2012

We talked to Amanda Palmer, The Lumineers, Andrew Bird, David Lowery, Dan Deacon, MyNameIsJohnMichael and music-industry vets for a look at what it takes to make it without the machinery of a major label....  read more

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Cracker, Camper Van Beethoven Announce Athens Camp-In

By Hilary Saunders at 12:19 PM on January 26, 2012

While we’ve previously reported on Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven’s yearly campouts, the groups will be launching their inaugural camp-in this year.   read more

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Catching Up With... David Lowery

By Stephen Deusner at 8:00 AM on January 31, 2011

David Lowery is trying to find a place in Athens, Ga., that gets good reception...  read more

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Cracker/Camper Van Beethoven's David Lowery to Teach at University of Georgia

By China Reevers at 5:00 PM on January 14, 2011

The University of Georgia recently announced that Cracker/Camper Van Beethoven rocker David Lowery will be teaching a course during the spring semester. The course, Fundamental Concepts in Music Business, was thought to be perfect for the veteran musician....  read more

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Classic Paste: The Best of Issues 11-15 (Aug. 2004 - May 2005)

By Steve LaBate at 7:00 AM on May 22, 2009

(JUST A FEW MORE REASONS TO HELP SAVE PASTE)In less than two weeks, I'll celebrate my 6th anniversary at this magazine. When I started as Paste's second-ever intern on June 1, 2003, we were still a tiny operation. Only five of us were in the office full-time: publisher Nick Purdy, editor Josh Jackson, assistant editor Jason Killingsworth, myself (who would go on to become associate editor) and my intern cohort, Steven Bevilaqua. Other important folks—like senior/film editor and future Paste president Tim Porter, design director José Reyes, and future associate publisher Joe Kirk—were working part-time, since Paste couldn't yet support a full staff. Back then, we...  read more

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SXSW Film 2009: Don't Use the M-Word

By Robert Davis at 2:51 AM on March 16, 2009

For good reasons — like the fact that all of Joe Swanberg's features have played here — the annual South by Southwest film festival in Austin, Texas, has a reputation as the adopted home of mumblecore. The dreaded M-word is used more and more negatively these days, but any term that labels films as diverse as Frownland, LOL, and Mutual Appreciation is a coinage looking for a definition. It was bound to fizzle at some point. The terminology may be disintegrating, but the filmmakers behind these movies are still collaborating and still growing. This year, Andrew Bujalski (Funny Ha Ha,...  read more

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