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New Elliott Smith Doc Needs Funding, Has Trailer

As RawkBlog reports, there’s another Elliott Smith documentary in the works. The documentary is titled Heaven Adores You and it takes a look at Smith’s influence on Portland, Ore., a town he lived and released records in for many years. This isn’t to be confused with another Smith doc, titled Searching for Elliott Smith, which had a very limited release in 2009.   read more

15 Bands Using Kickstarter for SXSW

SXSW is right around the corner and most people have their flights booked, hotels reserved and passes purchased. However, the road to SXSW for bands is not always as easy. Despite some big names on the bill, many of these struggling musicians don't really have the spare dough to make the trip.  read more

Detroit Artists Work to Fund RoboCop Statue

What started off as a simple joke has now become a movement to erect a statue of RoboCop in Detroit....  read more

Sundance, Facebook and Kickstarter Announce Collaboration

The Sundance Institute and Kickstarter will be working together following the recent agreement on a three-year deal....  read more

Yellow Ostrich Reaches Kickstarter Goal, Releases The Mistress on Vinyl

After finally attaining his Kickstarter goal, Alex Schaaf (AKA: Yellow Ostrich) will release his full-length The Mistress on yellow vinyl....  read more

Watch Jonathan Franzen Talk About The Mekons

The clip comes via the Kickstarter-funded documentary, Revenge of the Mekons...  read more

Blue Like Jazz Movie Saved By Kickstarter Campaign

For a while, it was looking like the movie adaptation of one of our favorite books of the last decade would never see the light of day...  read more

Seven Film Projects and One Naked Guy Worth Backing on Kickstarter

"I want to bridge the gap between art and exhibitionism..."  read more

Five Reasons Why Globalization Rocks

The world is getting smaller. We're increasingly more connected to folks around the world and have broader access to other cultures' news and arts than ever before. We at Paste are continually excited as global collaborations in the vein of Paul Simon and Ladysmith Black Mombazo's Graceland seem to be springing up every day. Some are made possible by the ease of modern travel, others by the infinite potential for exploration in the internet's music library and the growing bandwidth that allows musicians to telecommute across continents, laying down synth in Brooklyn and drumbeats in Bangkok. Here's a list that...  read more

Five Reasons to Help Emily Richmond Sail Around the World

Last week we told you about the growing number of independent artists turning to Kickstarter to crowdsource funds for the recording of albums, the production of feature films and even the reunion of infamously discordant bands. It's not just traditional creative-types who've flooded the site looking to support their endeavors, though, and of all the offbeat projects up for backing (convert a short bus to hawk Thai food, fund a griddle guide) Emily Richmond's is definitely the most ambitious. The 24-year old currently lives in Los Angeles, but if everything goes as planned, sometime this winter she'll be setting off...  read more