8.7.2012

It must have been the easiest casting choice in the history of cinema. Director Michael Peterson was gathering the actors for his fantasy nerd comedy Lloyd the Conqueror, a look inside the world of...

Backstage at Atlanta’s Plaza Theatre, Reggie Watts is pondering what it means to be weird. Or, perhaps, more accurately, how to stay weird. To call Watts a comedian is a vast understatement, if only...

Todd Solondz is not Judd Apatow. This comes up several times in the conversation, although to be fair, the director of this month’s Dark Horse, as well as indie classics like Welcome to the Dollhouse...

One year, when I was young and had no responsibilities, I got a PlayStation 2 for Christmas. I was dying to play Metal Gear Solid 2, and the buzz around this Grand Theft Auto III game was...

“She Found A Way Out,” a song from Grizzly Bear Chris Taylor’s debut album under the name, CANT, has a hell of an introduction. It starts off with a handshake, where you find yourself pleasantly...

As a member of the Wolfgang’s Vault family, Paste has access to a rich archive of historic audio interviews from a variety of sources. Many of these interviews have never existed in text form. Our...

This isn’t your every-month, crappy reunion record. Yes, Redd Kross’ latest release, Researching the Blues is their first album in 15 years (and their first on Merge Records), and yes, the band has...

NASA’s Curiosity may have just landed on Mars, but Timothy Showalter seems to have written this whole new album from the surface of the moon. Actually, it seems to be one of three moons, upon one of...

Niki & the Dove is an electro-pop duo from Stockholm made up of Malin Dahlstrom and Gustaf Karlof. Formed only two years ago very quickly after the two musicians met, the band made a splash in Europe...

Anglo-Ugandan singer/songwriter Michael Kiwanuka’s debut album was released in the United Kingdom back in March. Home Again became available digitally in the United States in May and now, physical...

Here’s the thing: Nobody who is ambivalent about a band is going to shell out $150 or more for a comprehensive, omnibus collection of that band’s work. A greatest hits will do fine, thank you very...

Maybe it’s an unfortunate side effect of our Spotified culture of instant artistic gratification, but when you get right down to it, there aren’t a whole lot of bands left specializing in actual...

Raunchy, awkward, over-the-top and fun, Klown will please many fans of Curb Your Enthusiasm and Louie. It’s a more absurd, bawdy version of Sideways—without the wine—that goes for more out-and-out...

Detroit, 1968. One foggy night, two music producers slip into a smoky downtown bar to check out an unknown singer-songwriter named Rodriguez. When they first lay eyes on him, he’s hunched over his...

Director Lauren Greenfield only meant to take a few pictures of a very wealthy family in the midst of all their opulence. Her subjects were the Siegels—the self-made billionaire, the trophy wife, the...

If last week’s episode of Louie was big and ambitious, taking the show into new territory, this week’s is more familiar, but in a good way. Many of Louie‘s best episodes are the ones that put together...

“What’s the plan?” All of the tension building between Skyler and Walt is brought to the forefront in “Fifty-One" when Walt asks her how she plans to deal with him. Walt’s been foolishly telling...

Forget World War Z. World War V is about to be upon the True Blood universe. If its people weren’t praying before, now would be a good time to start.Thanks to Bill’s evil genius plan, Tru Blood...

It’s always surprising to me when I hear the word “ejaculate” used on TV, let alone several times in a 20-minute span. Even more surprising is that it’s probably a first for Wilfred, a show that has...

Every week, the opening scene to Episodes is more hilariously memorable than the previous week’s. This time around, Matt’s stalker, who should be around more often, kicks off the episode by breaking...

The episode title “5/1” refers to 5/1/11, the four-day anniversary of the so-called end of birtherism, and also the date U.S. Special Forces attacked and killed the first in a long line of major...

I was waiting on the fourth world. I’ve played enough Spelunky to write a review. I’d played enough Spelunky to write a review back in March, and not the original PC version, but the exact same 360...

You remember Breakout, right? With a screen filled with rectangular blocks at the top and a “ball” you bounced off a bar at the bottom, destroying the blocks it hit. First released in 1976, it’s been...

Deadlight is a game by a Madrid-based studio in which a Canadian man, Randall Wayne, makes his way through a zombie-infested Seattle in the summer of 1986. He’s looking for his wife and daughter. It’s...

OK, class, time to discuss the classical difference between Horatian and Juvenalian satire. There will be a quiz. Ready? Horace, the Roman satirist, the father of gentility, emerged as a playful,...

In her 2009 memoir/cookbook, The Cracker Kitchen, Janis Owens describes the word “cracker” with its myriad of meanings. Less pejorative than descriptive, “cracker,” in her neck of the woods,...

Touring as a four piece in support of their latest record, Ghostory, School of Seven Bells stopped by the Paste offices to perform a stripped-down session. While for most bands that usually means...

This year, HGTV partnered with Paste as we headed down to Gulf Shores, Ala., for what we’d considered the best Hangout Music Fest to date. Beyond watching shows from some of our favorite artists, we...

This year, HGTV partnered with Paste as we headed down to Gulf Shores, Ala., for what we’d considered the best Hangout Music Fest to date. Beyond watching shows from some of our favorite artists, we...

The Freelance Whales consider themselves collectors. They’re a band that hunts down instruments, ghost stories and dream logs, incorporating all these seemingly unrelated elements into their music....

In their many years together, the Grateful Dead came to mean a lot of things to their thousands of listeners and showgoers. Inspiring legions of musicians after them, as well as the legions of tapers...