Maps & Atlases: Plotting Progression
Although Maps & Atlases’ latest album kicks off with blasts of electronic noises, layered studio production and effects-heavy instruments, the band’s big-bearded guitar-hero frontman Dave Davison promises its inspiration comes from a rambling, organic place. read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesMarley: An Oscar Winner Creates a Warts-And-All Hagiography
Robert Nesta “Bob” Marley may be simultaneously the most idolized and least understood superstar in music history. A deep thinker and mystic, he’s been too often relegated to pro-marijuana rallies and college dorm rooms. read more
Found in: Movies, FeaturesFrom the Vault: Bob Dylan, 1981
Our new From the Vault series will publish a different interview each week from our favorite rock ’n’ roll icons. This week, we have a previously unpublished interview Bob Dylan from July 2, 1981. read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesVintage Trouble: The Best of What's Next
It feels a little odd to be declaring a band who’s already opened for Bon Jovi, had their music featured in a Honda commercial, delivered high-profile late-night TV performances and cultivated an army of fans in Europe (who refer to themselves as the “Troublemakers”) as the “best of what’s next.” read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesTheresa Andersson: Flying Home
Riding the crane as if it were a race horse was Theresa Andersson, one of New Orleans’ most popular indie-rockers. Her long red hair spilled down over her gold-sequin-and-red-lace bustier, and her gown’s long train, festooned with pink and orange circles, fell over her maroon velvet pants and pink boots. read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesSarah Jaffe: The Body Wins
Sarah Jaffe’s 2010 debut full-length Suburban Nature began with simple measured strums on her acoustic guitar. The album wasn’t completely spare—eventually slow pulls on the violin colored that opening song and Jaffe’s quivering vocals echoed to fill the empty spaces. But overall, it occupied that familiar ground between folk, roots rock and indie pop. Her follow-up The Body Wins, however, starts off more like Rufus Wainwright’s operatic electro-pop masterpiece Want One. On “Paul,” subtle electric guitar, woodwinds, organ and piano begin ever so quietly as Jaffe sings “On the seventh day, we set aside our brains/From an amateur hell/... read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsTony Hale Recommends
Welcome to the first installment of …Recommends, where some of our favorite people tell us about an album, movie, TV show, book, game and drink they think Paste readers should know about. First up is Tony Hale of Arrested Development and Veep. read more
Found in: ColumnsHorse Feathers: Cynic's New Year
Justin Ringle and his band of merry musicians collectively known as Horse Feathers have put forth a very inspiring baroque pop album for their forth release. Cynic’s New Year is filled with layer upon layer of instruments allowing the band a grander scale that presents the band as a happy-go-lucky Oregon band. Yet, if you listen beneath the slides, horns and whistles and bells, there is a murky undertone hiding in Ringle’s lyrics. read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsPhilippe Falardeau's Monsieur Lazhar: Canadian Light
For Philippe Falardeau, the schoolyard is “a microcosm of society where everything happens.” The Canadian-born director has chosen this familiar setting for the Oscar-nominated drama Monsieur Lazhar. read more
Found in: Movies, FeaturesZazen by Vanessa Veselka
In dystopian novels, we often find ourselves cheering on a protagonist’s desperate escape. We want our hero to not only question the beliefs that have so deeply brainwashed his or her society, but to actively pursue some plan of subversion that becomes the catalyst for an all-out rebellion against a totalitarian regime. From enduring classics such as A Brave New World to the current flavor-of-the-week in the young adult genre (The Hunger Games, anyone?), this trope has proven its staying power. We not only want rebellion, but expect it. The urge to subvert feels even more relevant and cathartic today,... read more
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