The Swell Season

Anyone who was knocked backwards by the movie/musical Once will once again be torn apart emotionally by The Swell Season, a documentary finding its way into U.S. theaters this October....  read more

The 25 Best Live Moments on TV (2000-2009)

Paste looks back on our favorite live moments on TV from 2000-2009—magical, often spontaneous moments that captured our imaginations and had us glued to the set out of sheer joy and excitement.  read more

Swell Season at Bonnaroo

When Swell Season played "Falling slowly," and Glen Hansard asked the crowd to sing along “because we’re really quiet,” and thousands of people took him up on the offer, I remembered why I love music festivals. When Hansard and Markéta Irglová, a pair of actors who became one of recent cinema’s most intriguing fictional couples, then became one of music’s most intriguing actual couples sang Van Morrison’s “Into the Mystic” into the same mic, looking at each other lovingly, I remembered why I love music festivals. When Drive-By Truckers’ Patterson Hood told a six-minute maybe-true, maybe-not six-minute story about his...  read more