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Pick Up the Phone: Seven Songs that Want to Give You Their Digits

Singing a full seven-digit phone number in a song can mean the risk of plaguing innocent non-Jennys with your curious fan base's calls, but there's still no shortage of digits getting dropped into lyrics. Catchy, concise and a good viral marketing strategy if the number leads to a pre-planned voicemail, songs with a dial-ready number are usually a good call, at least for the artists, anyway. The following songs have got your number....  read more

Soul Lang Syne: A New Year's Eve Playlist

In the current issue of Paste, which is our super-amazing year-end blowout issue featuring our top albums and movies and so forth, we also have a full-page guide to throwing a New Year’s party. Helmed by industrious fashionista and associate editor Kate Kiefer, with minor help from yours truly, the page includes a playlist of soul and funk jams to play as the clock marches on toward midnight....  read more

10 Songs Inadvertently About Thanksgiving Leftovers

OK, just admit it. Thanksgiving was yesterday, and you've eaten leftovers every few hours since—for dinner, a midnight snack, even for breakfast. That's right. You crept stealthily into the kitchen, cracked open that tub of mashed potatoes, spooned out some of your mamma's now-solidified gravy, stuck a fork in a few strips of leftover dark meat, slopped it all on a sandwich, popped it in the microwave, topped it off with a little cranberry sauce and chowed down. Don't even try to deny it.  This time-honored holiday tradition gets its very own Paste list of the day, conveniently broken down...  read more

Wilson Pickett dead at 64

Pickett is synonymous with the greasy, unfiltered soul that was a powerful influence on early rock ’n’ roll  read more