Mötley Crüe’s Important Announcement Live Blog

Tonight, Mötley Crüe, the most important band in the world, will present the most important announcement ever. This is not hyperbole. This is fact. The band has already revolutionized music, literature, and umlaut usage, so it’s safe to say that its upcoming announcement foretells something greater. Will Mötley Crüe be the first band to colonize space? Will it finally resolve tensions in the Middle East? Will it reverse global climate change with an innovative cap-and-trade policy? At 7 PM, all will be revealed. Stay tuned as Paste brings you a live blog of the most important announcement ever. 6:50: The...  read more

2008 Plug Awards Live Blog

The Plug Awards celebrate some of the most left field media presences and entertainers that the indie-cool subconscious (or online voters) has picked for recognition. There’s no doubt that independent media gained a true home on the binary frontier, and The Plug Awards might as well be called The Online Hipster Procrastination Awards, because most of the nominees make a living doing just that. And quite frankly, it’s a beautiful thing. Having radio and the recording industry make the big online transition with the bandwidth to back it has given all media, from Clear Water to Caribou, an equal playing...  read more

Oscars 2008 Live Blog

Hey all you Paste readers out there.  Before things start, and to help me get a hang of how the blogging system we use actually works, I thought I’d give a few general thoughts on the event in anticipation.  -Awards: I expect No Country for Old Men to win the big prize, Day-Lewis to win best actor, and the Coens to nab the directing prize.  It seems I’m not the only one who feels this way and these aren’t particularly revolutionary ideas.  Because of this, it’s going to be the smaller stuff that’s actually interesting this year.  Assuming that there’s...  read more