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Foo Fighters Announce Full North American Tour via Ridiculous Video

Perennial mainstream rock 'n' roll heroes Foo Fighters took a creative approach in unveiling the remainder of their upcoming two-month tour of North America. Press releases be damned — this is the age of viral marketing, and the Foo Fighters are making sure to be provocative.  read more

Unglued: Only Played Once!

Trawling Amazon’s used CD listings, Paste noticed a startling trend. If the comments sections are to be trusted, incredible numbers of music fans are buying albums, playing them exactly one time, and then whisking them off to the land of eCommerce. To get to the bottom of this phenomenon, we embarked on a rigorous series of fake interviews with these hasty sellers, to find out why a certain album graced their CD player exactly once, and not a moment more. ...  read more

Feds to bail out struggling music industry

In the latest federal bailout of a failing business, Paste has obtained documents through the Freedom of Information Act wherein the RIAA requests an influx of capital to keep the music industry from collapsing.According to the documents, attorneys for the Big 4 music companies argue that if the government is willing to take steps to protect Bear Stearns, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and AIG, who are only suffering because of their own risky investments and bad decision making, then it should do the same for other poorly run businesses....  read more