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22 Awesome Break-Up Songs

Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore. Zooey Deschanel and Ben Gibbard. Kim Kardashian and that really tall sports dude. It seems like there's been a slew of celebrity splits lately...  read more

Rilo Kiley Announce Split

Rilo Kiley have officially broken up, reports Spinner....  read more

Catching Up With Blake Sennett

"There was a lot of weight lifted because there wasn't much pressure, and I wasn't competing with Rilo Kiley or Jenny's solo record or anything but myself."  read more

Rilo Kiley's Pierre de Reeder Starts New Label

Rilo Kiley’s guitarist Pierre de Reeder has started his own music label, Little Record Company....  read more

Jenny and Johnny Play Kimmel, Talk Future Plans

Last night, Jenny and Johnny stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live to perform a pair of songs — “My Pet Snakes,” which can be seen below, and “Scissor Runner.” While the lovestruck indie-pop duo continues to tour in support of their 2010 collaborative effort I’m Having Fun Now, both Jenny Lewis and Johnathan Rice have stated that they plan on working on their own respective solo efforts in the near future....  read more

Chills, Thrills & SPILLS: 19 Great Songs About Spilling Stuff

When I reached for the glass I’d just hand-juiced, I clumsily knocked its contents all over the counter. My mind began to wander to all the great songs in which other substances are spilled... milk, blood, wine, oil, guts, the beans. Before long, I had a king-hell playlist, and now I’m sharing it with you.  read more

Jenny and Johnny:I'm Having Fun Now

Los Angeles duo buries complexity The 11 tracks that comprise this longtime couple’s joint full-length debut are almost uniformly playful, draped in peppy “oohs” and “aahs,” but this sonic repetition masks I’m Having Fun Now‘s lyrical depths. Although Rilo Kiley frontwoman and increasingly formidable solo artist Jenny Lewis’ California roots show throughout (especially on the heavily melodic, surf-rocky “Scissor Runner” and “Big Wave”) her and singer/songwriter Johnathan Rice’s words are less than sunny. References to the economic worries of recent years permeate nearly every song: “2009, it was a bastard of a year,” Rice sings on “My Pet Snakes.”...  read more

Ten Sugarpop Bands We're Not Ashamed to Love

We’re aware that this genre didn’t exist until we coined it just now. A Google search revealed that “sugarpop” is a kid group that performed on GMA’s SOP sporting tuxedos and pink frilly dresses and fashionably-mussed hair and covering songs that were way beyond their emotional and hormonal depth. And, as it turns out, that’s a pretty good definition of sugarpop the genre. A little twee, kind of precious, it usually contains some combo of handclaps and cellos and boy-girl duos dressing in Value Village Mad Men chic. The duos in question might even make music videos where they wear...  read more

Dawes, Cory Chisel & The Wandering Sons Take Jason Boesel on the Road

Jason Boesel, drummer for Rilo Kiley and Conor Oberst's Mystic Valley Band, stepped out from behind the kit on his debut solo album, Hustler's Son, released in January...  read more

New Jenny Lewis and Rilo Kiley Albums in the Works, Says Jason Boesel

Current Paste Artist of the Day Jason Boesel—who’s recently moved from behind the drums to the front of the stage—is probably best known as Rilo Kiler’s longtime drummer. In a recent interview, Boesel gave us a little inside information about the future of Rilo Kiley and frontwoman Jenny Lewis (who, as of late, has been mostly flying solo)....  read more