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The 15 Best Radiohead Covers

So far this year, Radiohead has unexpectedly released its eighth album, unintentionally launched a viral mash-up video trend, entered into the newspaper business, released a Record Store Day 12" and announced a full-album BBC broadcast of the new record.  read more

Ben Harper, John Mayer, Tricky Contribute to New INXS Album

INXS will release Original Sin on Jan. 11, 2011. The album will be the first collaboration with the group and their original manager, CM Murphy, in over a decade. It’ll feature the band teaming up with a bevy of guest stars to re-imagine some classic INXS hits....  read more

Sixteen Comedians, Musicians and Actors to Follow on Tumblr

No, we're not talking the NonSociety.com, fameballing type Tumblr celebrities...  read more

Battle of the Bad: John Mayer vs. Phil Collins

We don’t spend a lot of time at Paste randomly hating on bands—“Signs of Life” and all that. But I made the comment in the office yesterday that I thought John Mayer was the new Phil Collins. I’ll admit both have their merits. Collins had Genesis, and Mayer has his mad guitar chops and the Trio (not to mention Decatur, Ga., roots and the good sense to take The Avett Brothers on tour). But the debate that followed was intense and, sadly, involved much playing of Mayer and Collins songs. So I took the question to my Twitter and Facebook...  read more

Five Tweets, Tweeters and Trending Topics That Will Be Anthologized In 2100

As we reported last week, the Library of Congress is planning on collecting every 140-character rant, musing and drunken Twitpic ever fumbled into cyberspace in its new Tweet Archive. We don’t know what such a thing will look like, but we imagine it’s not exactly the 2-D equivalent of the photo to the right—after all, the social networking site is less Wordsworthian daffodil poetry and more Kardashian menstrual overshares. But with our tweets being preserved for posterity, it’s inevitable that they will eventually be anthologized, or at least uploaded into Norton Anthology iBooks. Here then, are the Silicon Valley site’s...  read more

The Avett Brothers Join John Mayer On Tour

Paste has had a long running love-affair with The Avett Brothers’ unique brand of rowdy Americana. While many devotees lamented their Rick Rubin-produced album I and Love and You, we lauded them for their ginormous, pendulous testicles. Now, the fellas are joining John Mayer as special guests on his Battle Studies tour for some late-summer dates. Tickets for the shows go on sale April 17 via LiveNation.com....  read more

Allman Brothers, John Mayer, Sheryl Crow to Perform at Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival

On June 26 in Chicago’s Toyota Park, around 30 musical acts will gather for Eric Clapton’s third Crossroads Guitar Festival. “I do it because I want to hear these players…it’s a selfish thing,” Clapton told Rolling Stone. “I can go to one place and hear all of my favorite musicians in one day.” So far, confirmed performers include the Allman Brothers Band, John Mayer, Sheryl Crow and B.B. King....  read more

John Mayer: Battle Studies

Mayer’s eclectic musicianship almost makes up for pensive poetry Battle Studies marks the fourth release for John Mayer, who enters an arena of high-riding hopes after the soul-spilling Contiuum that graduated him to the lofty ranks of someone who could shred a six-string alongside B.B. King or Eric Clapton. Mayer’s albums were maturing one after the other, combining electric blues and clever songwriting, but he takes a few steps back with the lovelorn Battle Studies, a superficial meditation on the jagged down-slope of a relationship—the romantic blitzkrieg that recalls, among other genres, his early acoustic sound on Room for Squares....  read more

Upcoming John Mayer Video Puts Fans in Midst of "Heartbreak Warfare" with Augmented Reality Technology

As a musician worth following on Twitter, John Mayer is quite used to interacting with fans on a regular basis. However, a new music video will bring fans closer to the singer-songwriter than ever before....  read more

10 Musicians Worth Following on Twitter

Now that the Twitter universe has expanded to fans of The View and What Happens in Vegas, it's time to figure out whose 140-character tweets are worth reading. More than just concert announcements and what they had for breakfast—the miniature prose of these 10 musicians is almost as interesting as (or, in one case, more interesting than) their music. (And fake Tom Waits has been removed)...1. ?uestlove (The Roots) - questlove Best recent tweet: on behalf of big dudes everywhere: im TIRED of mofos thinking im not aware if i sit on a remote or keys or a samurai sword...  read more