11.8.2011

It’s safe to assume that Cass McCombs doesn’t have a Twitter account. He’s become as famous for keeping mum about pretty much everything as for being a gifted songwriter. Interviews dating back...

Hometown: Støvring, Northern Jutland, DenmarkMembers: Christian Rohde Lindinger (bass/vocals), Morten Winther Nielsen (guitars, vocals), Mathias Sørensen (drums), Niels Kirk (keyboards)Album: A...

“I’m obsessed with things that are funny and sad at the same time,” Adam Busch explains. “That’s always my goal in anything I do. I enjoy that, and that’s what I respond to, so that’s what I make.”...

The bluntest instrument in a game designer’s repertoire is text. Words are forced upon hapless casual gamers in niche titles like Amnesia: The Dark Descent and offered immoderately to dedicated fans...

It takes some real trying—the college type of effort—to toss all imagery of Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox into the mental trash, but that’s what’s going to happen here. It’s going to get diced up...

I live in a college town, and that puts me in close proximity with recent graduates. There are a lot of people in this world I pity, but the 21- and 22-year-olds who have just lost the paradise of...

As Bradford Cox’s Atlas Sound project evolves, continually releasing albums in between his primary band, Deerhunter, one is forced to ask an uncomfortable question. His solo recordings seem to be...

Who would have thought visionary headfuck director David Lynch’s first venture into long-player music would have resulted in 14 cute ‘n’ cuddly pop anthems? Just kidding. If you’ve ever seen one of...

There’s a reason why not one but two Lissie efforts—her takes on Kid Cudi’s “Pursuit of Happiness” and Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance,” both of which, thankfully, have found their way onto her Covered Up...

Over the last decade, Devon Sproule’s made music that’s a little too weird to truly be folk, slipping into jazz at times and never quite committing to the old-time feel she leans toward. Her latest...

It seems safe to say that Jonathan Coulton is currently a nerd icon. Coulton has sung about zombies, worked on songs for the Portal series, toured with They Might Be Giants and performed on stage for...

It’s easy to say that so many singer-songwriters are introspective and write painfully honest lyrics, but sometimes an easy explanation is all that is needed. Cass McCombs’ latest album Humor Risk,...

“The silence of a falling star Lights up the purple sky I wonder where you are tonight I’m so lonesome I could cry.” We’ve all listened, played and maybe even sung those lines by Hank Williams so many...

For The Bees’ latest album, Every Step’s a Yes, the group saw recording as a chance at a fresh start. It isn’t that they shouldn’t be proud of their previous releases — 2005’s Free the Bees and 2007’s...

With its clunky script and unsound message, In Time could be the work of an overambitious adolescent who just discovered a book on wordplay and the dystopian literature section in the library. The...

Community‘s ambition to make every episode an event of sorts frequently has its less-themed episodes struggling for an identity. With last week’s Halloween episode, for instance, there was a clear...

God, sex, a funeral and Jabba the zombie—this week’s episode of The Walking Dead had all four. Discussions of God came from the expected direction of Rick and Hershel, who was quick to point out the...

Steven Levitan, co-creator of Modern Family, cracked us up at the Emmys in September during an acceptance speech. Thanking the audience after the show picked up the award for Best Comedy, he told a...

It’s been almost a month since the last episode of New Girl, and it returns with one of the most common sitcom staples: the “roommates seeing each other naked” episode. New Girl has never been the...

Terra Nova has shown that it’s at its best when things are happening, and in its seventh episode, “Nightfall,” things are definitely happening. When a meteor explodes in the atmosphere, an EMP pulse...

It’s taken seven episodes, but Person of Interest finally did something…well, of interest. This week;s episode “Witness” made it seem like the big twist for the show would be the severing of ties...

This week’s episode of Up All Night featured another flagship plot all series must go through. Again, the NBC freshman hit sitcom seems to be pulling out these episodes a little early and having two...

How I Met Your Mother’s ability to tackle current events has always been a pleasure to watch, even when the historic is three months old. This week’s episode centered on the weekend when Hurricane...

Long after the TV-watching world was ready to declare a moratorium on all jokes relating to social media and these kids and their Twitternets, The League of all shows somehow manages to pull it off....

Start with this: the typical round of Battlefield 3 will contain enough breathtaking moments to keep your adrenaline pumping for a week. The game promises large-scale multiplayer warfare, and it...

AquariaPlatform: iPadDeveloper: Bit BlotPublisher: Semi Secret GamesPrice: $4.99 As much as we dislike the idea of starting out our new weekly column with a port, this week we’d like to recommend...

Elvis Presley, goes the myth, invented rock ’n’ roll at Sun Studios, around the time he recorded Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup’s “That’s All Right” in 1954. Without dismissing Presley’s considerable...

Singer-songwriter and geek humorist Jonathan Coulton, who was in town for September’s Dragon*Con festivities, stopped by the Paste offices to do a session in support of his latest record Artificial...

Paste recently spent a weekend down in Pensacola Beach, Fla. for DeLuna Fest. Sleeper Agent’s Alex Kandel, Tony Smith and Josh Martin stopped by the Paste dunes for a three-song acoustic session. The...

As Bradford Cox releases his latest Atlas Sound record Parallax this week, we’re continually reminded of the Atlanta rocker’s songwriting prowess. Not only that, but he’s been extremely prolific,...

Watch Norwegian singer-songwriter Sondre Lerche perform a stripped-down, solo version of “Private Caller” at our Paste Party in Austin, Texas during this past March’s...

Canadian six-piece Hey Rosetta! has the ability to blend traditional indie instrumentation with eloquent strings of a chamber orchestra. They were short-listed for the Polaris Music Award, which is...

Watch folk legend Richie Havens perform “Paradise” at the 2008 Newport Folk Festival in Newport,...