Pages tagged “shameless self-promotion”

Paste presents An Indie Rock Alphabet Book

We're proud to announce Paste's first foray into book publishing...  read more

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Paste launches Obamicon.me

The longest election season in memory is now over...  read more

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Paste celebrates 10 years

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEOne decade ago on Dec. 3 1998, Josh Jackson, Nick Purdy and Jordan Feibus launched PasteMusic.com, a retail site for independent music. The company began with the release of the first-ever live album from the Bill Mallonee-fronted Vigilantes of Love. The website grew over the years, selling music from artists such as Pedro the Lion, Over the Rhine, Innocence Mission and Marzuki (a late '90s indie-folk band featuring Sufjan Stevens)....  read more

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Five Unexpected Holiday Party Bring-Alongs

Holiday time means party time, and we hear it's polite to bring along a little somethin' somethin' for your host and fellow invitees. Mixed nut assortments and fruitcake may very well suffice, but might we suggest any of the following as a means to express your gratitude and general holiday spirit in a less totally-cliche way?...  read more

Found in: Blogs, List of the Day

Paste celebrates 10 years

On Dec. 3, 1998, Josh Jackson, Nick Purdy and Jordan Feibus launched PasteMusic.com...  read more

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Brett Dennen announces Spring tour

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This year, Paste sponsored a tour for Brett Dennen in May. And then, we got so excited about sponsoring tours that we picked up a couple more artists for the bill. And now, here comes news of Dennen's 2009 tour, in support of his album Hope for the Hopeless, as well as another collaboration with Paste....  read more

Found in: Concerts, News

Paste and Wordsmiths Books unite for Amanda Petrusich, Georgia Fireflies and free beer

This Saturday, Nov. 22, Paste senior contributing editor Amanda Petrusich will make the trip from Brooklyn to Atlanta to read from and discuss her new book It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for The Next American Music, at Decatur's own Wordsmiths Books. And we can think of no better way to celebrate her cross-genre hybrid-- equal parts memoir, travelogue, music history, and music criticism-- than with some free beer and Americana jams....  read more

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Thomas Function tours into November, joins Paste at ACL

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Thomas Function, the Alabama band that considers itself part of an ongoing "rock-n-roll renaissance," begins its fall tour next week. The band's debut, Celebration, came out earlier this year (it's quite good, if we do say so ourselves), and the guys are looking forward to the November release of a 7". Below are the dates, along with TF's new "Filthy Flowers" video—be Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} sure to check out the band's Sept....  read more

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Paste presents the 2009 Rock'n'Reel At Sea contest

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Democracy can be powerful when you get it right. Putting power in the hands of the people means that while you might not make everyone happy, you'll at least be seeing to the concerns of the majority. So if it works for the legislative and executive branches, why not for an Americana and folk-themed vacation cruise?...  read more

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This Week on PasteMagazine.com: 9/1-9/5/08

Hey, party people. Hope the first week of September is treating you quite well. After a cookout-laden day off to start the week, PasteMagazine.com was back on the case in the name of Signs of Life in music, film and culture (Hey, that would be a nice tagline for a magazine!), and here's what we came up with, asterisk style:...  read more

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