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Peter Gabriel Orchestral Covers Album On the Way

Peter Gabriel first LP in seven years will be something of a group project, an orchestral covers album that hosts an eclectic bunch of music hot shots performing each others’ songs. The title, Scratch My Back, plays along with the record’s tit-for-tat song swaps among artists like Arcade Fire, Bon Iver, Radiohead, Randy Newman and The Kinks, according to The Guardian....  read more

These five song titles are complete sentences.

One-word song titles are easy to type into iTunes and all, but I like it when artists go all out and use complete sentences for song titles. It's more revealing...especially when the sentence is "I Am Totally Not Down With Rob's Alien" (Minus The Bear). Here are five of my other favorites....  read more

Spiral Stairs, Wrens, many more contribute to Lifted Brow

Those crazy kids at The Lifted Brow are winding down their buzz-worthy multimedia project. After the announcement of their "Fake Bookshelf" project earlier this year, the Australia-based zine has (finally!) announced pre-orders for the issue, due out Jan. 17....  read more

Stephin Merritt inspires shoes, preps music for Neil Gaiman

What do you do when you find yourself so inspired by the Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs album you call it "the most beautiful CD of the 20th century"? You make shoes, apparently....  read more

See the Magnetic Fields live at Paste this Friday!

Are you curious to see if Stephin Merritt's voice resonates in a small room with no amplification? Do you live within driving distance of Decatur, Ga.? Then enter to win a chance for you and a guest to sit in on a recording session with Magnetic Fields frontman Merritt, live in the Paste Studio this Friday, Oct. 17 at 2:15 p.m....  read more