Unglued: Bands You Can't Google

By Jeff Vrabel at 8:45 AM on August 9, 2010

Rumor has it that early-'00s rap-rock ensemble Linkin Park chose to spell its name all funny-like for a simple reason...  read more

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Ears We Trust: Tucker Martine

By Paste Staff at 4:00 PM on August 5, 2010

Portland, Ore.-based producer Tucker Martine has helmed albums by the likes of The Decemberists, Laura Veirs, Thao with the Get Down Stay Down and Bill Frisell. He just wrapped a record with Tift Merritt, and he makes his own music as Mount Analog. Here’s what he’s listening to and loving....  read more

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Vivre sa vie DVD Review

By Andy Beta at 1:00 PM on August 5, 2010

Release Date: Available Now Director: Jean-Luc Godard Writers: Marcel Sacotte, Godard Cinematographer: Raoul Coutard Starring: Anna Karina, Sady Rebbot Studio/Run Time: Criterion Collection, 83 min. Early outing from New Wave auteur reveals great depths “I… is someone else,” confesses Nana (Anna Karina) during a police inquiry, echoing the century-old sentiment of French poet Arthur Rimbaud. In the next scene, she transforms from a meek record store clerk with suffocating debt and a child that she (and the audience) never sees, to a prostitute with a new set of problems. The 1961 film is classic Godard in its exploration of...  read more

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Dusty Springfield: Once Upon a Time 1964-1969 DVD Review

By Michael Saba at 11:00 AM on August 4, 2010

Release Date: Available Now Director: David Peck Studio/Run Time: Reelin’ in the Years, 84 min. Soul survivor Born in the U.K. and baptized in Memphis as the queen of blue-eyed soul, chanteuse Dusty Springfield left an indelible mark on pop music in the mid-20th century. With her ascent, the ex cathedra roster of legitimate solo musicians was suddenly coed, and Springfield coolly one-upped the old boys’ club with her charming stage presence and booming, brassy alto. Once Upon a Time, one of the first releases in a planned “British Invasion” series, serves as a workmanlike overview of Springfield’s career....  read more

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Tape Delay: After Years in the Musical Margins, Cassettes are Back

By Raymond Cummings at 7:30 AM on August 4, 2010

The humble cassette is alive and well...  read more

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Breaking Upwards Review

By Christina Lee at 3:30 PM on July 1, 2010

Release Date: Out Now Director: Daryl Wein Writers: Wein, Zoe Lister-Jones Starring: Wein, Lister-Jones, Julie White, Andrea Martin Studio/Run Time: Mister Lister, 88 min. Longest. Break-up. Ever. The first 40 seconds of Breaking Upwards are the film’s most tortuous. Daryl (Daryl Wein) lays horizontally over Zoe (Zoe Lister-Jones), and can barely muster the energy for coital thrusts. Zoe, sighing, tells him to go ahead and come: “Really, it’s fine.” Based on the true story of the co-stars’ relationship, this SXSW selection follows the twenty-something New Yorkers as they ease out of their shared yoga classes and into a break-up...  read more

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Nina Nastasia: Outlaster

By Rachel Dovey at 9:00 AM on June 25, 2010

Master of crazy-songs lets the crazy master her Legend has it that Nina Nastasia has never bought a record in her life. Whether or not this is true is irrelevant; like most myths, it highlights an important truth beyond itself—in this case, that the singer/songwriter is practically incomparable to anyone else making music today. She’s been compared to everyone from Leonard Cohen to PJ Harvey, but nothing quite fits....  read more

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Baffled Once More: Thomas Frank Resurrects Journal of Pop and Politics

By Paul J. Williams at 8:30 AM on June 10, 2010

I meet Thomas Frank at a chain coffee shop in the Washington, D.C. suburbs...  read more

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Best of What's Next: Deep Sea Diver

By Gray Chapman at 6:00 AM on June 9, 2010

“I couldn’t believe I was actually playing in the Hollywood Bowl...”  read more

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John Hiatt: The Open Road Review

By Rachel Bailey at 9:00 AM on June 2, 2010

A worn-out road On first listen, John Hiatt’s 19th studio album sounds like the rallying cry of an American absconder, all fugitive lead-footing and Mardi Gras beads hanging from rearview mirrors. But in the end, the characters of the Indianapolis-born songwriter’s country-blues ballads are happiest when they have someone to settle down with, even if they have a hard time staying put. “I got down on my knees last night and I thanked someone / for the chance for two people to try and live together and not roam,” Hiatt sings just before his woman leaves him in “Wonder Of...  read more

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