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2011 Austin City Limits Day Three Recap

Another exhilarating and exhausting ACL Fest came to a close on Sunday.  read more

Austin City Limits Announces Season 37 Lineup

Austin City Limits has announced the line-up for their 37th season. This will be the first season that every show will be taped in the newly build Moody Theatre since the historic Studio 6A was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010.  read more

Musician Fans of All 30 MLB Teams Talk Baseball

Paste rounded up at least one musician for every ballclub—from The Decemberists (Cubs) to Rush (Blue Jays), Randy Newman (Dodgers) to The Hold Steady (Twins) in search of what draws these musicians to devote themselves to America's past time.  read more

Randy Newman Announces New Album, U.S. Tour Dates

Grammy, Emmy and Oscar-winning music vet Randy Newman has announced the release of The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 2. The Songbook series features newly recorded, stripped-down versions of songs from throughout Newman’s vast career as a singer/songwriter. The first volume in the series was released in 2003....  read more

Watch Mavis Staples and Jeff Tweedy Cover Creedence Clearwater Revival

Chicago soul queen Mavis Staples covers a number of songs on her Sept. 14 release, You Are Not Alone, which was produced by fellow Windy City resident Jeff Tweedy of Wilco....  read more

Randy Newman Burns On

In honor of Newman's 18th and 19th Academy Award nominations...  read more

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

The Best TV Theme Music

The little ditties that open TV shows keep growing littler and dittier, almost disappearing into Lost’s single sustained chord. The assumption may be that we’re just going to fast-forward through them anyway, but part of the charm of shows like Cheers, M*A*S*H and Sanford and Son was the musical intro. Fortunately, not everyone has given up on the theme song. Here are 10 current shows with tunes that make us put down the remote....  read more

Mark Knopfler Announces New Album, Spring Tour

Former Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler has announced spring U.S. tour dates to support his sixth studio solo record, Get Lucky, which will hit stores about six months before his first show. Needless to say, his live sets should be well ripened by then....  read more

The Greatest Art Ever Made About the Midwest

The new Cam’ron single “Get It In Ohio” is, amongst other things, an ode to the Midwest. In the grainy video, Cam and friends drive through slushy streets and complete business transactions in parking lots—and even if this doesn’t conform to your personal Midwestern experience, there’s a shock of recognition in seeing the heartland represented so proudly in a rap song. As someone who spent a fair amount of time in the Midwest myself, this got me thinking about other memorable songs, albums, movies and literature about the oft-ignored expanse of real estate known pejoratively as “flyover country.” Here are my...  read more