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Thomas Function's Top Five Tour Moments of the Last Year and Change

Cat tranquilizers, Kurt Russell, Germany, oh my!  read more

Thomas Function Prepares for Southern Tour

Thomas Function, comprised of three garage rockers from Alabama, wooed us at last year’s SXSW, and In the Valley of Sickness, the band’s Fat Possum debut also from last year, landed on our Best of 2009 list. Now, Thomas Function is set to embark on a short tour through the southern states. If you don’t live in the South or you want to hear them before you get tickets, check out the video for “Day in the Shade” below....  read more

Download Thomas Function's "A Day in the Shade"

Download Thomas Function's "A Day in the Shade" here.Thomas Function's In the Valley of Sickness is out now on Fat Possum....  read more

Fifteen Albums, Songs That Defined 2009 for Paste's Web Editor

This was a confusing year for me...  read more

The 25 Best Albums of 2009

We spent the month of November considering The Best of the Decade, from albums and TV shows to books and comedians. But lest we forget all the great music that came out in the last 12 months, here are our picks for the Best of 2009.  read more

Walking in a Garage-Rock Wonderland: 10 Examples of 2009's Excellence in Terms of Scrappy, Catchy Song

“In the garage I feel safe No one cares about my ways In the garage Where I belong No one hears me sing this song In the garage” -Weezer: “In the Garage” For as long as dudes have been banging on six-strings, the garage has served as a safe haven of sorts, a place where, as Rivers Cuomo so melodically put it in the song above, said dudes could write “stupid words” and “stupid songs,” loving every one. And seemingly every few years since “garage rock” as a genre was coined way back in the middle ’60s, someone announces, breathlessly,...  read more

Thomas Function Announces New Album and Tour, Debuts "Belly of the Beast" MP3

After releasing a ridiculously infectious debut album...  read more

Paste's Top 10 Buzziest Acts of SXSW 2009

Another year, another SXSW on the books. Somehow, amidst the parties, food and general chaos of 6th St., the Paste staff managed to see some music. Here are the 10 acts we were most impressed with:...  read more

SXSW 2009: Thomas Function Wakes Up Austin

Before Huntsville, Ala.'s Thomas Function took the stage (read: corner of floor) at Headhunters modest porch space last night, I took a quick count. Nineteen. Less than 20 people (including myself) were waiting to see one of the finest examples of power-pop/garage rock the South has to offer right now, and if I were a betting man, I'd say a quarter of them were there to chat and drink cheap beer....  read more

Five Criminally Slept On Albums from 2008

I know what you're saying: It's not even December yet! But in the spirit of year-end goodness...  read more