Catching Up With... Yo La Tengo's Ira Kaplan

By Reed Fischer at 3:00 PM on September 8, 2009

In which the veteran rock frontman discusses getting complimented by Lou Reed and unwittingly collaborating with George W. Bush...  read more

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20 More Musicians To Follow On Twitter

By Josh Jackson at 11:25 AM on September 1, 2009

Since last we scanned the Twitterverse for our favorite musicians, Trent Reznor has given up the Twitter ghost, but plenty of other musicians have begun updating in his place. These are just some of my favorites. 1. Camera Obscura - camera_obscura_ This Scottish band has released one of my favorite albums this year. Best recent tweet: Just been to collect my bike. Sometimes, cycling in Glasgow is a lot like the escape scene at the start of Raiders of the Lost Ark. K Runner-up: Amsterdam to glasgow. 90 mins spent in full view of a filthy urchin feasting gleefully on...  read more

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Yo La Tengo Takes its Popular Songs Around the World

By Julia Askenase at 1:00 PM on July 31, 2009

Indie stalwarts Yo La Tengo have made a boatload of albums. So many, that they've reached the stage when they can assert that a forthcoming album is full of Popular Songs before it even comes out. And if you care to object, just remember, they are not afraid of you and they will beat your ass....  read more

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Salute Your Shorts: Science Is Fiction - The Films of Jean Painleve

By Sean Gandert at 2:07 PM on April 30, 2009

One of the big clichés in pretty much any sort of media criticism is to say that a work is “unclassifiable”...  read more

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50 Best Bob Dylan Covers of All Time

By Josh Jackson at 6:00 AM on April 28, 2009

As we began to compile this list of the 50 Best Bob Dylan Covers of All Time—asking for input from Paste readers, writers and editors—someone suggested that it might be easier to compile a list of artists who haven't covered Dylan. I've listened to literally hundreds of Dylan covers over the course of the past week, trying to weigh choices like, "Who's version of 'Tomorrow Is a Long Time' is better, Nick Drake or Nickel Creek?" But I don't mean to make it sound like grueling work. My biggest take-away from this exercise is that going to Dylan for source...  read more

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Pitchfork Music Festival announces headliners

By Rachel Dovey at 2:24 PM on March 9, 2009

This year will mark the fourth that Pitchfork has gathered fans into Chicago's Union Park for a weekend of top-notch indie bands. Headliners have been released for the July 17-19 line-up, and it's looking pretty solid so far....  read more

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Six Albums to Get Excited About in 2009

By Austin L. Ray at 7:00 AM on January 17, 2009

When I wrote my Five Movies to Get Excited About in 2009 list a couple weeks ago, ostensibly, I was providing a reader service. But really, I was getting as pumped up about those movies as anyone reading that post. In fact, I'm listening to Ready to Die right now, looking forward to taking in a showing of Notorious this weekend. Looking forward to stuff is fun, and it makes actually experiencing said stuff just that much more awesome (or, alternately, disappointing).Editing the news section of PasteMagazine.com also gets me hyped about forthcoming albums on a daily basis. From big...  read more

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Paste presents An Indie Rock Alphabet Book

By Caren Kelleher, Kate Kiefer and Rachael Maddux at 5:00 AM on January 8, 2009

We're proud to announce Paste's first foray into book publishing...  read more

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David Byrne, Sufjan Stevens, Gillian Welch, The National, Feist, many more contribute to Dark Was the Night comp

By Austin L. Ray at 2:18 PM on December 1, 2008

Today is World AIDS Day. Appropriately enough, it's also the day that the line-up was revealed for Dark Was the Night, a compilation release which will benefit AIDS/HIV awareness group, The Red Hot Organization....  read more

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Is Yo La Tengo releasing a new album?

By Henry Freedland at 3:30 PM on November 13, 2008

Of the many roles that Pitchfork Media has come to serve in the world of independent music, the sleuthing Sherlock hasn't always been a central one. But it turns out they've got some game when it comes to stitching together evidence. This week, the site presented a case for the Internet jury, pointing toward a new album from legendary New Jersey trio Yo La Tengo. It would be their first since 2006's wondrous I Am Not Afraid of You And Will Beat Your Ass. ...  read more

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