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Video Premiere: Behind The Scenes of New Multitudes

As we previously reported, Son Volt’s Jay Farrar, Centro-Matic’s Will Johnson, My Morning Jacket’s Jim James and Varnaline’s Anders Parker will appear on New Multitudes, which will be released on Feb. 28. The album is a homage to Woody Guthrie and will feature interpretations of unrecorded Guthrie lyrics.  read more

Alan Lomax's Music Archive to Hit the Web

Alan Lomax has set a record. The American folklorist and ethnomusicologist has been regarded as one of the great field collectors of folk music. His personal project with The Association for Cultural Equity is set to stream 17,000 tracks recorded by Lomax, which includes tacks from Ireland, the US, Britain, Italy, Spain and the Caribbean.  read more

Listen To A Track From Yim Yames and Friends' Woody Guthrie Tribute Album

The first track off of New Multitudes, which will be released Feb. 27, has been released. The quartets’ version of Guthrie’s “Old LA” is filled with folksy guitars and alt-country melodies.  read more

Members of My Morning Jacket, Son Volt and More Unite For Woody Guthrie Tribute Album, Tour

Will Johnson (Centro-matic, South San Gabriel), Jay Farrar (Son Volt, Gob Iron, Uncle Tupelo), Yim Yames (My Morning Jacket, Monsters of Folk), and Anders Parker (Varnaline, Gob Iron) have announced they will tour under in support of their album New Multitudes this upcoming spring.  read more

Woody Guthrie Tribute to Feature Jim James, Jay Farrar

A tribute to Woody Guthrie titled _New Multitudes_ is slated to be released on Feb. 28 and will feature My Morning Jacket’s Yim Yames, Son Volt’s Jay Farrar and Centro-matic’s Will Johnson.   read more

Lou Reed, Tom Morello, Others to Pay Tribute to Woody Guthrie

In commemoration of Woody Guthrie's would-be-100th birthday in July 2012, several musicians have teamed up with the hugely influential folk singer's estate to pay tribute to him.  read more

Live From Paste: Ryan Bingham

In honor of Independence Day, watch Ryan Bingham's American-themed Paste session featuring "This Land Is Your Land."  read more

The 15 Best Songs in Car Commercials

Most car commercials suck. Usually companies are so lazy, they just show the cars traversing through a desert, forest, or beach and basically say “Watch this thing move.” Every once in a while, though, they mix a cool song with the boring scenery, which makes the commercial about 5,000% better....  read more

Alan Lomax Haitian Music Box Set Celebrated With NYC Party

Alan Lomax, along with his father John Lomax, is one of rock ‘n’ roll’s true unsung heroes. He wasn’t an ace guitar shredder or a multi-octave crooner; he didn’t really have much musical talent at all. Rather, Alan Lomax was a collector. Working for the Library of Congress in the late 1930’s and 1940’s, Lomax archived massive collections of folk music from around the world, most famously through his work recording early American folk and blues musicians like Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly....  read more

Listen to Woody Guthrie's "Bad Repetation" from the My Dusty Road Box Set, Out Today

Before countless singer-songwriters from Bob Dylan to Wilco and Feist covered his work, Woody Guthrie's songs stood alone, a massive repertoire crucial to the development of modern American music. Now, 54 Guthrie songs recorded in the 1940s have been rescued from storage in a Brooklyn basement and remastered across four discs for the box set My Dusty Road, out today. ...  read more