From The Vault: Miles Davis - "Directions"
Other than his appearance at the Isle of Wight Festival later this same month, this Tanglewood performance was possibly the largest audience that Miles Davis had encountered up to this point. read more
Found in: Featured VideosLive From Paste: El-P
Watch El-P perform three songs before the opening show of his Into The Wild tour at The Masquerade in Atlanta, Ga. read more
Found in: Featured VideosLive From SXSW: The Chain Gang of 1974
Watch The Chain Gang of 1974's entire performance at the Sennheiser & Paste Present the Stages on Sixth. read more
Found in: Featured VideosClare and the Reasons: KR-51
Headed by the husband and wife duo of Clare Muldaur Manchon and Oliver Manchon, Clare and the Reasons’ follow-up to 2009’s Arrow is a balanced mixture of feather-light vocals, expertly arranged instrumentation and witty, smart lyrics. The Brooklyn-based band has created something special for listeners with their third album, KR-51. Taking eight months to create, it skates over the lines of all genres to produce songs that are as unique as they are memorable. read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsMúm: Early Birds
Experimental Icelandic band Múm has gone through several incarnations since forming in the late '90s. They released their debut album,Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today Is OK, in 2000 on Morr Music, and have since put out four additional full-length albums and a number of other recordings. read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsElizabeth L. Cline: Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion
When NPR intern Emily White blogged in June about her largely unpaid-for music collection, she probably didn’t expect a nearly 4,000-word essay in response … or that musician and lecturer David Lowery’s challenge to her freeloading - make that free downloading - would go viral. read more
Found in: Books, ReviewsAlberta Cross: Songs of Patience
Petter Ericson Stakee and Terry Wolfers met in a London pub several years ago and developed a friendship based on their shared love of American folk and country music. The two eventually began writing and recording together, and inevitably they moved to America—Brooklyn, in fact. It’d be easy to view the music they record as Alberta Cross as a mix of geographically identifiable influences, but perhaps not in the obvious ways. On their second full-length album, Songs of Patience, they still sound like a UK band trying to master an American idiom: Alberta Cross sets its sites on My Morning... read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsShout Out Out Out Out: Spanish Moss and Total Loss
Canadian electros and dance-funk DJs Shout Out Out Out Out stormed into the music world with their first album, Not Saying / Just Saying back in 2006. After positive reviews and a Juno Award nomination, they packed up and toured through North America. It was another three years before they hit their sophomoric stride with Reintegration Time. The band again received generally positive reviews, and the title track even crept into BioWare’s gaming space epic, Mass Effect 3 (it’s one of the songs you select as background music in Shepard’s cabin).... read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsEpisodes Review: "Episode Two" (Episode 2.02)
What makes sex funny? We’ve sort of seen it all on comedy shows, but somehow sex on TV still works. Especially so when it is excruciatingly uncomfortable and relatable. Last week’s _Episodes_ episode concluded with Sean and Morning kissing. This led to the showrunner and starlet sleeping together. read more
Found in: TV, ReviewsDave Eggers: A Hologram for the King
Dave Eggers has played an overlarge role in the literary community in the past 15 years, even as his actual writing seemed mostly to exist in the periphery of causes. He champions several. Eggers fights to increase the literacy and creativity of the nation’s youth through his 826 National writing centers. He continues to build and extend the reach of McSweeney’s, his independent, off-beat publishing house. He sheds light on broader humanitarian issues such as the genocide in Sudan or the social injustices that emerged in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. He appears to operate with a selfless passion for... read more
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