Perfume Genius: The Best of What's Next
For Put Your Back N 2 It, Perfume Genius made his way into a proper studio for the first time, working with producer Drew Morgan to craft a sparse, yet carefully arranged record emphasizing his voice and storytelling. read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesGrace Potter: The Courage To Disappear
Raised in an artistic family enclave called Potterville, Grace Potter has always marched to her own rhythm. Even when she was playing local jam-band-ish barn concerts at 17, the then-flannel-shirted-and-cowboy-booted blonde had no designs on stardom, or its attendant glitzy imagery. read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesAubrey Plaza Can't Guarantee Your Safety
“Being on a television show is so good for me as an actor,” Plaza says, “because I’m able to work with different directors every week. Some people that just do movies, maybe you do 20 movies in your lifetime and that’s 20 directors. I’m working with 22 directors in a year.” read more
Found in: Movies, FeaturesThese United States: Life, Death and These United States
The first time you meet Jesse Elliott, he’ll greet you like an old friend: right hand swooping out for a shake, smile bursting out from his beard, grey-green eyes wide with exuberance. read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesThe BoDeans
Wherever you are when you’re reading this, chances are pretty good that at some point in the next 30 days, a concert venue within driving distance of where you’re sitting will play host to an act clinging to the lowest creative rungs of the nostalgia circuit. Whether it’s an aging AOR legend schlepping its platinum catalog with a package tour and a set list that hasn’t changed in 20 years or a one-hit wonder playing the reunion card a little too soon, it seems like there’s always more room on theater marquees and casino billboards for one more band with... read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesFrom The Vault: Van Morrison - "Into the Mystic"
Belfast, Ireland is Van Morrison's refuge, strength and often times inspiration for the rock-jazz-blues mélange that is this Celt's body of work. read more
Found in: Featured VideosLive From SXSW: River City Extension
Watch River City Extension's entire performance at the Sennheiser & Paste Present the Stages on Sixth. read more
Found in: Featured VideosMetric
In a letter to fans, family and friends, Metric frontwoman Emily Haines described Synthetica, the band's fifth studio LP, out today on Metric Music International, as the culmination of the band's more than 10 years together, coming forth in the sound they had always hoped to realize. read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesHit So Hard: Hole Drummer's Rock Doc
P. David Ebersole’s documentary Hit So Hard, available on DVD this week, tells the unlikely story of Patty Schemel, drummer for Hole, close friend of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, and famously the first person Kurt wanted as the drummer for Nirvana (he settled for Dave Grohl, which worked out okay). read more
Found in: Movies, FeaturesThe Tallest Man on Earth: There's No Leaving Now
Kristian Matsson deals largely in the abstract, but for a concrete idea of what There’s No Leaving Now sounds like, imagine Bob Dylan getting whiplash from a taste of Scandinavian air. A Dylan disciple since in utero, the Swedish-born Matsson’s songs reimagine Dust Bowl blues through a lo-fi lens. They also project coldness rather than intimacy, the floods of reverb taking on bizarrely inhuman shapes. The specter of hand-churned Americana does loom large over There’s No Leaving Now—it’s just warped into something taciturn and alien. There’s No Leaving Now is a deadly serious record, never once wavering from the thesis... read more
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