10.15.2011

Perry Farrell’s got a lot on his mind. We’re at his hotel where he’s just arrived after a 30-minute car ride to the DeLuna Fest in Pensacola, Fla., and he wants to go outside because he spent his day...

There’s a hermetically sealed purity—they’re too old to call it innocence—about New Jersey’s lethargic, guitar-jangling Real Estate. Even in these ultra-eclectic, meta times, tongue-tied frontman...

“That’s such a great sound,” John Hawkes says, as I snap a few Polaroids of him gazing at the rain from a window high up in the Greenwich Hotel. “‘Shaking is a myth’…did you catch that line in the...

It feels like we could just separate, listening to Radiation City’s song, “The Things You Tell Us,” a spookily gusty piece that makes you grab tightly to the collar of the coat you’re wearing and pull...

There’s something extremely enigmatic about Sing In My Meadow. It is the third volume in Cowboy Junkie’s Nomad Series and comes after the band has been together for 25 years. Surprisingly, the album...

The rote storyline that presents itself as a backdrop to Noel Gallagher’s solo debut is overwhelmingly obvious: Oasis splits, seemingly for good. Arch-brother Liam and the rest of the group form Beady...

Maybe Anthony Gonzalez is just working his way back through the years, one album at a time. On his 2005 breakout as M83, Before the Dawn Heals Us, he took the shoegaze guitars of My Bloody...

Look at all the arrows in Shara Worden’s quiver. There’s no doubt she’s a member of the music community’s upper echelon—or at least has a spot on the guest list. She has collaboration credits and co...

“Rock and roll” just doesn’t have the same ring it once did. With the glut of tastemakers and flavors of the month manufacturing far sexier tags (Dream pop? Shitgaze?), the idea of a straight-ahead...

It was in the early 2000s—a time where some bands still weren’t completely pasted all over the Internet—that one of my best friends went to see Pinback for the first time. He was obsessed. He had...

Culled from two separate 2010 performances—Oct. 16 and 20, to be precise—T Bone Burnett Presents the Speaking Clock Revue features 11 highlights of renowned country/blues producer T Bone Burnett’s...

Horror movies are by far the worst offenders when it comes to the pop-culture plagues of remake-itis, sequel-itis, and its awkward cousin, prequel-itis. How many Saws, Resident Evils, and increasingly...

The documentary To Be Heard, which follows three disadvantaged New York City teenagers as they strive for some kind of salvation through poetry, begins with a long shot of a Bronx cityscape that...

Directed by Craig Brewer (Hustle & Flow and Black Snake Moan), Footloose is less a remake than an update of the 1984 original film. Both films colorfully mine the same cheesy material, but what made...

The press materials for 1911 promise that “no expense was spared and no detail ignored in its quest for historical accuracy.” That may be true, but it does not make 1911 anything less than a messy...

It took three whole hours of television to get there, but finally season two of Boardwalk Empire has had an episode that was good with no qualifications needed. That’s also not an absolutely terrible...

Rick Grimes just can’t win. The second season of The Walking Dead opens with the Georgia sheriff on the roof of an Atlanta sky rise, looking down on the ruins of a zombie apocalypse and trying to get...

Sukkot is the Jewish harvest festival, something of a spiritual precursor to Thanksgiving, where family and friends come together in the sukkah, the ritual makeshift hut (“So it’s like Bonnaroo?” asks...

Last week it seemed Up All Night was ready to blossom. It was picked up for a full season by NBC, receiving compliments from critics and viewers alike; stars Will Arnett and Christina Applegate were...

The first episode of Snuff Box begins with a hanging, and this isn’t just a one-off event in the series. Matt Berry and Rich Fulcher star as a hangman and a hangman’s assistant, respectively, and much...

A Short Autobiography [Scribner]Paste rating: 8 On Booze [New Directions]Paste rating: 7.5 In vino veritas, sad to say Ask any tweedy undergraduate of a certain generation—this one included—to reel...

Ben Schneider of recent Paste Best of What’s Next band Lord Huron brought a full line-up to Austin to play his poly-rhythmic Laurel Canyon-esque tunes. Watch “The Stranger” from Lord Huron’s SXSW...

This past March, singer/songwriter Keegan DeWitt performed at the Paste Party in Austin. Watch “Tired of Love”...

When I picked up Robert Ellis after a radio gig in Chicago, Ill. last month, I was initially surprised that this was the young man behind the recent record Photographs. For anyone who’s heard the...

During this year’s Newport Folk Fest, California bluegrass outfit The Devil Makes Three performed two songs inside the Paste ruins at Fort Adams. The trio—consisting of Pete Bernhard, Lucia Turino and...

During the summer of 1970, Bill Graham presented an extraordinary series of concerts at Tanglewood, the renowned classical music venue located in the scenic Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts....