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Signs of Life 2008: Best Music

By Paste Staff on 8:00 AM on November 21, 2008

Check out Paste's top 50 albums of 2008... read more

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Amidst busy and tour-filled year, Hot Chip unloads new EP's

By Loren Lankford on 1:34 PM on September 30, 2008

The boys of Hot Chip sure have had a massively busy 2008. They just put out a new album in February and have been touring ever since. Now, they're talking new EP's, tour dates and songs. Nope, you're not confusing them with Coldplay (though you'd be forgiven, those boys have a lot going on as well.) Hopefully new live drummer Leo Taylor, who recently finished a solo album, isn't ready to run for the hills quite yet.... read more

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Austin City Limits 2008 - Day 1

By Austin L. Ray on 12:00 PM on September 29, 2008

Photos taken at Austin City Limits by Rob Inderrieden... read more

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Monolith Festival 2008: Day 1

By Jeremy Goldmeier on 1:16 PM on September 16, 2008

For those who have never been to the Red Rocks Amphitheatre, picture an impenetrable mountain fortress. A skyscraper’s worth of stairs runs up and around the main stage, and two towering, triangular rock formations jut forth from the earth, framing an indescribably vast, epic scene.... read more

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Monolith Festival 2008 - Day 1

By Austin L. Ray on 5:40 PM on September 15, 2008

[Above: Erin Ivey]Photos taken by Mark C. Austin at Red Rocks Amphitheatre... read more

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Musicfest NW 2008

By Corey duBrowa on 11:55 AM on September 10, 2008

Musicfest NW: Stumptown’s annual movable feast Austin has its SXSW and ACL Fest; New York has CMJ; Chicago has the Pitchfork Festival while Seattle and Bumbershoot remain hand-in-glove. Even as the music industry suffers through another in a long line of financially declining years, the list of noteworthy regional music events nevertheless goes on and on with nary an end in sight.... read more

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Which artist has created the best album of 2008 so far?

By Paste Staff on 5:12 PM on July 7, 2008

Vote in PasteMagazine.com's latest poll...... read more

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Peter Gabriel to cover Vampire Weekend

By Michael Saba on 9:03 AM on June 30, 2008

And it feels so unnatural, Peter Gabriel too. Forget the Summer Olympics, the real passing of the torch will be taking place in the recording studio. With Big Blue Ball finally released after cooking on the shelves of Gabriel's Wiltshire recording studio for nearly two decades, the former Genesis frontman will be dropping the sledgehammer on the heir apparent to his afropop superstardom: Vampire Weekend. As Stereogum reports, Gabriel plans to cover VW's "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa", which cheekily namechecks him.... read more

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Vampire Weekend, Daniel Johnston get Popped!

By Adam Daniels on 12:10 PM on June 16, 2008

Without cheating, close your eyes and try to name one summer festival Vampire Weekend is not playing this year. Can’t do it, can you? But the weird part about these festivals is this... read more

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