7.26.2011

Kip Berman is the lead singer and guitar player for The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart. He is a dumb guy that steps on his fuzz pedal too much. All his...

Nils Edenloff is at work. He’s not in the studio or on the road, singing lead vocals and playing guitar with The Rural Alberta Advantage; he’s at his...

For a self-described self-deprecator consumed by doubt and musical insularity, Jenn Wasner, singer/guitarist/songwriter for indie-rock duo Wye Oak, certainly has a lot of lofty musical ideas. For the...

For more than 20 years, Eric Zimmerman has been a singular presence in videogame development. From his early, controversial advocacy programs to the...

That this issue of Paste came out on time is something of a minor miracle. Yesterday, while several of the staff were playing catch-up after trips to the opposite ends of the musical spectrum—Max Blau...

For being one of the busiest and most talked about bands in Austin this spring during the dirty dog-and-pony show that is SXSW, The Vaccines appeared to be in no hurry to leave our quaint, but...

Soul child Joss Stone grew up going toe-to-toe and holding her own with some of classic R&B’s finest, and that old soul presence made for a disconnect: free spirit hippie girl inhabiting Timmy Thomas’...

There may be nothing I hate more in the music industry than bloggy genre names—the kind that pop up in critical jargon and then fade away in the trailing breeze of some indie band’s sophomore slump,...

A wise man may have once said, “Our lives are nothing more than a series of reactions.” Everything we do is a response to something that has come before; we’re never satisfied, always pushing and...

Even before its opening narration has finished, we’re told who Ironclad’s dastardly villain is and the opposition he’s up against. That wouldn’t be particularly surprising were it a fantasy movie, but...

The creation of “Holocaust films” as a genre would seem to symbolize the world at large attempting to address and recognize the untold horror, suffering and genocide that occurred during World War II....

I’m sure plenty of us have a racist old relative somewhere in the family tree. I live in Boston; I know it’s not just a Southern thing. The power of “Country Drive” is that there was no hint that was...

Not long after Ben Sollee’s brilliant 2011 release Inclusions impressed us with its stunning and eclectic blend of acoustic orchestration and electronic depth, the Kentucky cellist turned singer...

Check out Canadian folk rockers Rural Albert Advantage as they powerfully performed a set at Paste‘s Party in Austin during this year’s SXSW Music Festival. Watch “Drain the Blood” from their...

Hailing from Issaquena County, Mississippi (10 bucks to anyone who can prove they’ve actually been there), McKinley Morganfield—the man you know as Muddy Waters—spent the better part of the second...

On Friday, June 8, 2011, an all-black crowd gathered at Atlanta’s Cyclorama, a Civil War museum devoted to the memory of the Battle of Atlanta. We came to hear scholar-turned-novelist Dolen Perkins...

I cut my teeth with Dirt on a particularly nasty hairpin run in the series’ second installment. Having previously gotten a small taste for rally years ago with Gran Turismo 3—a game I was otherwise...