MST3K Vs. Gamera: We All Win
Forty-six years ago, a giant fire-breathing turtle crawled out of the icy depths of the Arctic Circle and stomped Tokyo flat. The Gamera movies—five in all, spanning two decades—aren’t simply bad. They are sublimely absurd, which makes them ideal for _Mystery Science Theater 3000_, the beloved television series that made it okay to talk during movies, as long as you had something witty and hilarious to say. read more
Found in: TV, FeaturesThe Voice Project: Singing Through Uganda's Nightmare
For Hunter Heaney, co-founder of The Voice Project, the impetus for his current life’s work and philanthropy efforts was ignited when he visited Northern Uganda in the fall of 2008.... read more
Found in: Culture, FeaturesMathieu Santos
Ra Ra Riot bassist Mathieu Santos is chilling outside his band’s Brooklyn rehearsal space, where he and his bandmates have been spending their downtime the old-fashioned way: workshopping tracks for an upcoming third full-length album.... read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesJ Mascis SXSW Set
A couple weeks after release his solo acoustic record Several Shades of Why, Dinosaur Jr. frontman J Mascis played a stripped down set at our Paste Party in Austin, Texas this past March. Watch his full set here. read more
Found in: Featured VideosJohn Hiatt Has Seen It All
Twenty-five years ago, John Hiatt seemed a broken man. He was already a widowed parent in his mid-thirties. His estranged second wife had committed suicide by hanging. Worsening matters was the fact that Hiatt’s record label, Geffen, refused to promote the man’s music despite his excellent critical reputation.... read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesLive From Newport: Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside
Watch Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside perform John Prine's "In Spite Of Ourselves" and "Cage" in the Paste ruins inside Fort Adams at Newport Folk Festival. read more
Found in: Featured VideosLive From Newport: Middle Brother
Few bands have more fun playing together than Middle Brother. read more
Found in: Featured VideosWhere Are They Now: '90s Nickelodeon Nostalgia Explosion Edition
In honor of the Nickelodeon's launch of "The '90s Are All That" block this week (Kenan & Kel, Clarissa Explains It All, Doug and All That), Paste caught up with some old childhood friends. read more
Found in: TV, FeaturesXimena Sariñana: Fame, Unmonstered
Ximena Sariñana displays that complex leavening of assurance and humility of one who’s experienced a certain amount of acclaim. Complex gears turn quickly behind her eyes even as she talks conversationally, and she embraces the first person with unabashed ease. She is, you see, a movie and pop star, but not here.... read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesThe Bayou Trilogy by Daniel Woodrell
Okay, Daniel Woodrell of West Plains, Miss., has just been elevated by Winter’s Bone and Sundance and the Oscars and the general high opinions of critics everywhere into the stratosphere of Great American Novelists, Gritty Division. The buzz, cicadas on a summer night, is deafening. It should be. Woodrell single-handedly generated a new genre—country noir—with his Ozarks-based crime stories. Sure enough, the usual glowing comparisons to Chandler, Faulkner, Mosley, Jim Thompson and Cormac McCarthy have all been sung. He’s a “backcountry Shakespeare,” opines the LA Times. He’s “deeply atmospheric and oozing with the mojo of the swamp,” says the Chicago... read more
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