Creed Vs. Creed: Quality Assurance Representative and Rock Frontman Face Off

By Caroline Klibanoff at 3:30 PM on November 23, 2009

One is a creepy relic who's had trouble with the law. The other is a character on The Office. Creed Bratton: Quality Assurance Representative, The OfficeScott Stapp: Frontman, reunited rock band Creed ...  read more

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Carolina De Robertis: Where The Magic Happens

By Montana Wojczuk at 4:00 PM on November 9, 2009

Hometown: Oakland, Calif. Book: The Invisible MountainFor Fans Of: Giuseppe Di Lampedusa, Roberto Bolaño, HomerThe name of Uruguay’s capital, Montevideo, literally means “I see a mountain” in Spanish. The moniker was given by one of the first European  sailors to lay eyes on the verdant land. But it’s really little more than “a mountain the shape of a huge fried egg,” Carolina De Robertis writes in her stunning debut novel, The Invisible Mountain, named for the obscured landform. ...  read more

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Spam E-Mail or Bob Pollard Song?

By Steve LaBate at 2:16 PM on October 23, 2009

Ever since solo artist and former Guided By Voices frontman Robert Pollard arrived in the late ’80s with GBV’s first album of note, Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia, he’s been the undisputed king of arcane titles. So arcane, in fact, that they often resemble the non-sequitur gibberish of spam e-mails that advertise replica watches and male-enhancement pills. ...  read more

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More Photos from Dust-to-Digital's Take Me To The Water Collection

By Paste Staff at 3:45 PM on October 7, 2009

Earlier this year, Atlanta-based crate-digging label Dust-to-Digital released Take Me to the Water: Immersion Baptism in Vintage Music and Photography 1890-1950, a 96-page book...  read more

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Hatcham Social: Under the Influence

By Nick Marino at 6:00 PM on October 6, 2009

The members of Hatcham Social used to live in London neighborhood New Cross. New Cross used to be called Hatcham, and it featured a...  read more

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Brandi Carlile: Give Up the Ghost

By Rachael Maddux at 8:00 AM on October 6, 2009

Brandi Carlile is a woman out of time...  read more

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Victor LaValle: Big Machine

By Derek Prall at 4:00 PM on October 5, 2009

Former heroin addict Ricky Rice has resigned himself to a...  read more

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Charlyne Yi: Geek Love

By Michael Saba at 3:00 PM on September 30, 2009

In recent years, there’s been no shortage of well-soundtracked "alternative" romantic comedies, and most have hinged on a very particular archetype: the unassuming nerd girl...  read more

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Miranda Lambert: Revolution

By Nick Marino at 9:00 AM on September 30, 2009

Like politics, country music is all about persona...  read more

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Nine Reasons We Love Country Singer Miranda Lambert

By Kate Kiefer at 11:30 AM on September 29, 2009

Lambert has recorded material by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Patty Griffin and—on her new album, Revolution—Julie Miller and John Prine...  read more

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