Watch Four Videos From Lost in the Trees' Web Series

Watch Four Videos From Lost in the Trees' Web Series

Lost in the Trees has unveiled a web series, which features several videos offering an candid look at the band and its members.  read more

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Featured Video: Lost in the Trees - "Garden"

Featured Video: Lost in the Trees - "Garden"

Lost in the Trees were one of our favorite acts that played our 2011 SXSW day parties. During their set last year, the North Carolina orchestral-pop group previewed "Garden"--a track that would eventually find a home on their beautiful new album A Church That Fits Our Needs.  read more

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Lost in the Trees: A Church That Fits Our Needs

Lost in the Trees: <I>A Church That Fits Our Needs</i>

The woman who stares out at you from the cover of Lost in the Trees’ second album resembles a Renaissance muse more than a photographed subject. She is the mother of the band’s frontman Ari Picker, and she took her own life in 2009. That loss naturally haunts the musician, as such a tragedy would anyone, but A Church That Fits Our Needs addresses her death in a roundabout way, favoring allegorical storytelling over straightforward eulogizing. Picker infuses his lyrics with North American magical realism, full of dark forest, dead birds, mysterious churches, and ominous lakes, and the band soundtracks them with florid arrangements that stop just shy of fussy.   read more

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25 Albums We're Looking Forward to in 2012

25 Albums We're Looking Forward to in 2012

It’s 2012, a year long-rumored to bring about the end of the world. So, if our time really is limited, there's no reason to waste it on bad music. Here are 25 albums we expect to be among the best of the year.   read more

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Paste's Best Portraits of 2011

Paste's Best Portraits of 2011

In part two of our year in photos, we look at some of our favorite portraits taken during 2011. Paste photographers shot spent a lot of our time behind the scenes with some of our favorite musicians and actors, including Erykah Badu, The Civil Wars, Mark Ruffalo, Felicia Day and many more.  read more

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Lost In The Trees Perform at SXSW

Lost In The Trees Perform at SXSW

If you couldn’t make it out to SXSW this year, we captured all 30 of the acts who played the Paste Parties in Austin. Watch Lost in the Trees perform five songs at one of our showcases this past March.  read more

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Hopscotch Music Festival Day Three Photos

Hopscotch Music Festival Day Three Photos

See our photos from the final day at the Hopscotch Music Festival in Raleigh, N.C. yesterday, which featured sets from the Flaming Lips, Superchunk, Lost In The Trees, Future Islands and more. Check out Mike White's photos below.  read more

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50 Musicians And Their Childhood Dream Jobs

50 Musicians And Their Childhood Dream Jobs

Lots of children want to be rock stars when they're young. But for those who do actually end up becoming musicians, it wasn't always the first profession that they had in mind for themselves.  read more

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18 Musical Moms Talk Motherhood

18 Musical Moms Talk Motherhood

As a website that celebrates all kinds of artistic creativity, we regularly talk about ambitious art as a mind-blowing original documentary, experimental gaming platform or a sprawling double LP. But today we acknowledge that all these pale in comparison to art of parenting....  read more

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Flaming Lips, Guided By Voices, Superchunk Among Hopscotch Festival Lineup

Flaming Lips, Guided By Voices, Superchunk Among Hopscotch Festival Lineup

The Independent Weekly’s Hopscotch Festival in Raleigh, N.C. will feature the likes of The Flaming Lips, Guided By Voices, Drive-By Truckers, Superchunk, The Dodos, John Vanderslice, Swans, Yelawolf, Black Lips, Cold Cave, Empress Hotel, The Love Language, Lost in the Trees, Twin Shadow and tons more....  read more

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