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James Brown Stars in Miso Soup Commercial

We know the Godfather of Soul James Brown for smash hits like “Get Up Offa That Thing,” but “Miso” must have slipped under our radar. Brown recorded this rockin’ Japanese commercial for Cup of Noodles’ miso soup spin-off way back in 1992. Only James Brown could make Cup of Noodles actually look yummy and exciting. Miso miso!...  read more

Listen to Tom Waits Covering James Brown in 1987

Sounds awesome, right? It is, actually...  read more

The 80 Best Workout Songs

We bet it's time for you to update that ol' workout playlist. The following songs are guaranteed to get your body moving.  read more

Institutionalized: Eight Musical Homages to the Asylum

Musicians have a long and complex history with mental illness. On her new album, Janelle Monáe uses the asylum motif to tie her to the greats she channels. Here are some of the most famous, and infamous, songs and videos about being institutionalized.   read more

Various Artists: Light: On the South Side

The gorgeous sights and sounds of ’70s Chicago blues Afro-topped women’s libbers, fedora-clad gangsters and bespectacled academics: The black men and women who inhabit photographer Michael Abramson’s hedonistic photos of ’70s Chicago blues clubs span the social and historical spectrum. In new book Light: On the South Side, we witness a time when the meeting point of Howlin’ Wolf and James Brown still catalyzed black American life—the last time, as Nick Hornby says in the introduction, that “the past and the future [co-existed] so peaceably.”...  read more

Top Ten Wedding Recessional Songs

Since you guys have had so many suggestions for our first-dance and father/daughter songs (keep 'em coming!), I’m enlisting your help once again—we're looking for the perfect recessional music for our wedding. The song should be upbeat and celebratory since it will play at the end of the ceremony, right after we’re pronounced husband and wife. Yippee! Here are my top ten, though I’m not in love with any of them. You can listen below. Which ones do you like? Got any better ideas? I’m happy to report that the Beatles are no longer excluded. ...  read more

Paste's Tax Refund Playlist: Cash Money Mix

The best thing about giving your money away is getting a bit of it back. Some people say that money can't buy happiness, but we respectfully disagree with this opinion; it definitely makes us feel warm, fuzzy and well-fed. If you aren't smiling when you get your tax-refund check in the mail, you might be a robot. In fact, you're most likely incapable of feeling emotion and Blade Runner's Rick Deckard is closing in on your mailbox as you read this. As you patiently wait for that refund check to arrive, whether you're making a wish list of goodies for...  read more

James Sullivan

Back when celebrities were courageous enough to talk race...  read more

Spike Lee's James Brown biopic to feature original music

Spike Lee, the vocal and, at times, contentious, director of an upcoming James Brown biopic, recently told MTV News that he intends to use Brown's original voice in the film instead of leading man Wesley Snipes'....  read more

Soul Lang Syne: A New Year's Eve Playlist

In the current issue of Paste, which is our super-amazing year-end blowout issue featuring our top albums and movies and so forth, we also have a full-page guide to throwing a New Year’s party. Helmed by industrious fashionista and associate editor Kate Kiefer, with minor help from yours truly, the page includes a playlist of soul and funk jams to play as the clock marches on toward midnight. ...  read more