Girl Talk plans epic 24-hour final show on Mayan apocalypse

By Henry Freedland at 9:52 AM on August 12, 2008

In 1839, an American writer and explorer named John Lloyd Stephens was sent to Central America to serve as Special Ambassador. He traveled around the continent during his time there, and, after happening upon Mayan ruins at Copán, visited almost 50 other such sites, gathering material for a travelogue that has long been credited with enlivening modern interest in Mayan culture. ...  read more

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Lollapalooza Day 3

By Sean Edgar at 4:34 PM on August 4, 2008

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Walkmen release You & Me early, donate proceeds

By Veronica Sepe at 10:00 AM on August 1, 2008

If there was a Girl Talk School of Album Release Technique, The Walkmen would be at the top of the class. Their latest offer, You & Me, will be available on the cheap three weeks early, via the interwebs. But the group has perhaps one-upped Prof. Gillis by adding a new and quite refreshing twist to the lesson: They will be pairing up with Amie Street, an online indie music marketplace, to donate all the proceeds of the $5 album to the Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. ...  read more

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A little Girl Talk-ing on WashingtonPost.com tomorrow

By Henry Freedland at 4:00 PM on July 28, 2008

If you're alive, under 50 and capable of aural stimulation, then you've likely wondered how Gregg Gillis, AKA Girl Talk, does it—how he knows Jay-Z's rap was always meant to be heard over the sweet sounds of Radiohead's "Paranoid Android," why he employs beats from Ace of Base's "All That She Wants" to encase Lil Scrappy's "Money in the Bank."...  read more

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Girl Talk's Feed the Animals gets 14-video treatment

By Adam Daniels at 2:00 PM on July 22, 2008

Ever since 2006's Night Ripper thrust Greg Gillis and his musical project Girl Talk into the national limelight, he has been one of the most polarizing figures in popular music. Many feel Gillis is cheating the system, stacking the musical tape deck if you will. Sort of like how the Yankees can afford Rodriguez and Jeter in the infield (not that Young Berg and Tony Basil are exactly Jeter and A-Rod, but you get the idea), it just doesn't quite seem right. ...  read more

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Pirate's Dilemma to bring piracy to TV?

By Henry Freedland at 2:57 PM on July 9, 2008

To hear Matt Mason tell it, if you want to change the world your best bet is not realpolitik, but innovative piracy. ...  read more

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Which artist has created the best album of 2008 so far?

By Paste Staff at 5:12 PM on July 7, 2008

Vote in PasteMagazine.com's latest poll... ...  read more

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Girl Talk announces additional tour dates

By Julia Askenase at 4:13 PM on July 1, 2008

Girl Talk is coming to town*.  Armed with a laptop and the ability to get a crowd pulsing to pretty much any genre of music, mash-up mastermind Gregg Gillis is headed on a North American tour in support of his latest, Feed The Animals....  read more

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Girl Talk: Feed the Animals

By Brian Howe at 11:35 AM on June 26, 2008

After the profile-raising success of his last album...  read more

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Girl Talk unleashes Animals today, heads on tour

By Adam Daniels at 12:21 PM on June 19, 2008

You are a tiger. A crazy, starved tiger. At least that’s essentially what Girl Talk’s Greg Gillis said of the title of his new album when Paste caught up with him in May. However, he also said he'd soon have something to nourish you. And it’s available for download now. ...  read more

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