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Watch Lou Reed Cover Sam Cooke's "A Change is Gonna Come"

Considering his recent collaboration, it was sort of surprising to see Lou Reed do a straightforward, melodic rendition of Sam Cooke’s “A Change is Gonna Come.” The performance took place Sept. 15, 2011 at the Highline Ballroom in New York.  read more

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

Happy 50th Birthday, The Twist!

These days, dance crazes don’t have a lot of staying power. We lean with it one day and rock with it the next. We walk it out today and wipe it down tomorrow. And by the time we figure out what in the world a “Stanky Leg” is, everyone else is already “Swag Surfing.” But it hasn’t always been this way....  read more

The Nine Most Untimely Rock 'N' Roll Deaths

Yeah, but how do you define untimely? Like this: The artists on our list died when they clearly had their best work ahead of them. ...  read more

Tales of the Coffin Nail: 27 Smoking Songs That'll leave you Breathless

Aside from that one weekend on the eve of 7th grade, when my parents left me with my older sister, I’ve never been a smoker. When I actually inhaled, it always tore my throat up so bad I couldn’t even finish a whole cigarette. Still, that weekend, a random, inconsequential moment occurred that I still—for some strange reason—remember in astonishing detail.  It was the night before the first day of school—late August 1991 in the Atlanta suburbs—and an intense thunderstorm had just rolled through. My sister was already asleep in her basement apartment, so I took my boombox down to...  read more

50 Best Bob Dylan Covers of All Time

As we began to compile this list of the 50 Best Bob Dylan Covers of All Time—asking for input from Paste readers, writers and editors—someone suggested that it might be easier to compile a list of artists who haven't covered Dylan. I've listened to literally hundreds of Dylan covers over the course of the past week, trying to weigh choices like, "Who's version of 'Tomorrow Is a Long Time' is better, Nick Drake or Nickel Creek?" But I don't mean to make it sound like grueling work. My biggest take-away from this exercise is that going to Dylan for source...  read more

Sam Cooke - Reissues

Trio of reissues showcases a powerful voice  read more

Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke

Masterful biographer takes on the life of a soul legend...  read more