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Five Euro Music Festivals That Make Us Want to Cross the Pond

Here in the U.S. of A., there's no shortage of summer-music festivals. In fact, there are so many purveyors of over-priced adult beverages and sweaty good times, it's rather difficult to choose between them. You'd think our musical curiosity would be satisfied, wouldn't you? But alas, as we peruse summer tour schedules that send some of our favorite acts overseas, we can't help but wonder about these festivities on foreign soils. What makes them so awesome? And, did someone enstate a rule that they must be held on some form of medieval ruin? Is a port-a-loo cleaner than a port-a-potty, or does...  read more

The Top Eight Post-Collegiate Movies for the Aimless Grad

The thing about college graduation is that you’re expected to do something afterward. As always, though, the movies are here for us. Young filmmakers have long exorcised those one or two (or seven) years after graduation, wherein caustic anxiety about the future leads well-educated twentysomethings to enter an extended period of uselessness on their way to whatever’s next. Thus emerged this talky cousin of the coming-of-age movie, which exists mostly to comfort new generations of grads and depress older ones. To mark the release of the canon’s newest title, Adventureland, here’s a quick rundown:...  read more

Let's Get (Meta) Physical: Top 5 Top 5 Lists in John Cusack film High Fidelity

Us music geeks love making Top 5 lists. It helps us deal with and understand this big scary world. Writer Nick Hornby understood this when he wrote the novel High Fidelity. As did John Cusack and director Stephen Frears when they made the movie version. Today, in Paste's List of the Day, we divulge our Desert-Island All-Time Top 5 Most-Memorable Top 5 Lists from the film version of High Fidelity....  read more