9.20.2011

From the front of the stage to the back near the merch table, The Earl is packed for the sold-out Features show, but not with the Atlanta venue’s typical twenty-something crowd. On this Friday night,...

When this magazine published its list of the 100 Greatest Living Songwriters in 2006, the most obscure name on the roster was Bill Mallonee. As the leader of Georgia’s Vigilantes of Love and later as...

Rachel Nichols, star of blockbuster action films like GI Joe, Conan, and the upcoming I, Alex Cross, had a pretty simple reason for wanting to play a mousy librarian in a small offbeat indie called A...

Craig Thompson was 28 years old when he released Blankets, a sweet and sad autobiographical account of the writer/artist reconciling his small-town fundamentalist Christian upbringing with falling in...

Bill Mallonee’s Vigilantes of Love wasn’t the first band that made me wish more people knew its music—that honor probably belongs to Guadalcanal Diary or The Ocean Blue or one of the many bands I fell...

The following essay appeared at Daytrotter on April 29, 2007. Chris Taylor’s first album under the CANT moniker was released last week. Taken by a merry ol’ land of woebegone and some desperate,...

I certainly had very high hopes for Dreams Come True, Chris Taylor’s first album under the CANT moniker. And who wouldn’t? As one of the principal sound-sculptors behind Grizzly Bear’s romantic art...

Alabama folk vet Auguste Arthur Bondy describes the tracks off his third album, Believers, as having been “conjured during and between dreams, in bare rooms, and on the late night streets of America.”...

SuperHeavy needs an acronym. A complete secret until earlier this summer, the supergroup has the air of a mysterious international spy organization, like U.N.C.L.E. or C.O.N.T.R.O.L., with agents from...

As bands go, Britain’s Kasabian is a tough nut to crack. They’re musically eclectic and ambitious, yet they tend to over-rely on their many influences—most prominently The Rolling Stones, The Stone...

A surfer-bro folkie settles downThroughout his decade-plus career, Minneapolis surfer-friendly singer-songwriter Mason Jennings has crafted quite the soundtrack to the evolution of the adolescent mind...

Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn’s thrill ride, Drive, is designed to flood its viewers with a surge of emotions—a daring rip current, pulsating in ears and pounding in chests. Ryan Gosling’s...

Meet Enoch Brae (Henry Hopper, son of Dennis), a sad, possibly suicidal lad who crashes strangers’ funerals wearing a three-piece suit. Meet Annabel Cotton (Mia Wasikowska), a lively lass who sketches...

Art reclaiming and responding to tragedy is the central theme of Lech Majewski’s unearthly feature The Mill and the Cross, one that seems particularly appropriate right after the 10th anniversary of...

If two unhappy couples are isolated together in a film, it can be pretty much assumed that at least one affair will be the result. That’s certainly the case in Happy, Happy, a Norwegian feature with a...

Zooey Deschanel has made a career for herself by being the “dream” girl to main characters in films like (500) Days of Summer, Elf, Gigantic, etc. But in her new sitcom New Girl, the opposite is true,...

Free Agents arrives with a good pedigree. It’s overseen by Party Down co-creator and Veronica Mars writer John Enbom, and features a core of talented and likable actors in Hank Azaria, Kathryn Hahn...

Up All Night stars Will Arnett and Christina Applegate as a married couple struggling to adapt to life with a newborn. Chris, played by Arnett, quits his job at a law firm to be a stay-at-home (and...

In the last season of How I Met Your Mother we saw Ted and the gang go through some highs and lows. Ted was involved with the fan-hated Zoey; Marshall dealt with the loss of his father, while Lily...

El Shaddai’s visual design is a staggering achievement that maintains its sense of majesty and awe.It seems like every six months a new triple A title...

If there’s anything that truly separates Kingdom Rush from the growing number of fixed-path tower defense offerings, it’s the game’s look. Ironhide Game Studio’s reinvention of this well-worn wheel...

Although not the very first, Charles Brockden Brown is likely the most cherished and highly regarded penman of the first generation of Early American...

Each week, Paste reviews the most intriguing comic books, graphic novels, graphic memoirs and other illustrated books. Creepy Presents: Bernie...

Ivan & Alyosha makes music perfect for a Sunday morning soundtrack. The folk-rock quartet combines impressive harmonies with a rich, easygoing sound that echoes in similar fashion to fellow Seattle...

Amos Lee is a deceiving musician. The soft-spoken songwriter can powerfully belt out like few others, luring one in with his easygoing folk songs before capturing one’s undivided attention with a...

Watch this week’s mPlayer cover artist The Jayhawks play their new song “Closer To Your Side,” performed during the group’s The Ocean Way Rehearsal...

A.A. Bondy, who released his latest record Believers earlier this month, performed nine songs during his set at Slim’s back on Feb. 26, 2009. Watch the Birmingham singer/songwriter perform at the 2009...

I heard somewhere that the part of the brain that processes sound is right next to the part of the brain that deals with memory, and that this is why certain music evokes such powerful memories. What...