8.2.2011

Twenty-five years ago, John Hiatt seemed a broken man. He was already a widowed parent in his mid-thirties. His estranged second wife had committed suicide by hanging. Worsening matters was the fact...

Ximena Sariñana displays that complex leavening of assurance and humility of one who’s experienced a certain amount of acclaim. Complex gears turn quickly behind her eyes even as she talks...

Ra Ra Riot bassist Mathieu Santos is chilling outside his band’s Brooklyn rehearsal space, where he and his bandmates have been spending their downtime the old-fashioned way: workshopping tracks for...

Forty-six years ago, a giant fire-breathing turtle crawled out of the icy depths of the Arctic Circle and stomped Tokyo flat. Despite doing trillions of dollars worth of damage and killing scores of...

In honor of the successful launch of Nickelodeon’s “The ’90s Are All That” block, which premiered Monday with episodes of Kenan & Kel, Clarissa Explains It All, Doug and All That and brought in an...

Before launching Paste magazine, my job was to write about doctors and nurses from Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe who were providing health care, education, micro-economic loans and whatever...

“The lemon of pink” is a phrase that The Books taught me, and it’s one that only makes any sense when we’re listening to the group’s glistening art. The songs that Paul de Jong and Nich Zammuto pin...

A full 20 years after Days of Heaven made its way into theaters, Terrence Malick’s follow-up The Thin Red Line became the worst-regarded of his pictures, a dubious honor that it retains to this day....

I first discovered Richard Buckner as Son Volt’s opener around the time of Straightaways. Standing alone with a keyboard on a big, dark stage, Buckner seemed perhaps the only person capable of out...

Eric D. Johnson’s debut album under the Fruit Bats moniker, Echolocution, was released at a fortuitous time—at least in terms of the fickle inclinations of the quote-unquote indie rock community. In...

There’s a pretty decent chance that if you find yourself questioning whether or not a rabidly bleeping and organ-driven track involves Spencer Krug—it probably does.By conquering the dilemma of...

Dexter Romweber’s career has seen something of a resurgence of late, thanks in no small part to the reverence of superfan Jack White (who counts Romweber as a huge musical influence and has released a...

What could bring together cowboys and Indians in the Wild West? Aliens, of course! The high concept Western/sci-fi Cowboys & Aliens manages quite capably to blend two genres, producing surprisingly...

Seminal images from Woodstock abound. But what sparked the famed Summer of Love? When did sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll first start to coalesce? Where did hippies come from? Magic Trip, directed by...

Joe Swanberg and Adam Wingard are either reviled or celebrated for innovating the mumblecore film movement, depending on where you stand on this indie niche’s preciously unenunciated dialogue, Godard...

Here’s a theory based entirely on basic “no shit, Sherlock” logic: “Subway,” the first part of the latest episode of Louie, works best if you ride the subway. I rode the MBTA to work for seven years....

When Futurama began, it had a rule against time travel. That may be hard to believe now, considering how much time travel has occurred in the last few seasons, but it makes sense. Introducing time...

“Words can’t explain what happened, but words are all I got.” The words spoken by Rucks towards the start of Bastion are as accurate as they are misleading. Ruck’s whiskey-over-sandpaper voice is...

Okay, Daniel Woodrell of West Plains, Miss., has just been elevated by Winter’s Bone and Sundance and the Oscars and the general high opinions of critics everywhere into the stratosphere of Great...

Few bands have more fun playing together than Middle Brother. It’s something that was quite evident throughout this past weekend’s Newport Folk Festival as Taylor Goldsmith, John McCauley and Matt...

A couple weeks after releasing his solo acoustic record Several Shades of Why, Dinosaur Jr. frontman J Mascis played a stripped down set at our Paste Party in Austin, Texas this past March. Watch his...

Yesterday would have been Jerry Garcia’s 69th birthday. We celebrate with this video from Wolfgang’s Vault of the Grateful Dead at San Francisco’s Winterland on Dec. 31,...

Watch Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside perform “Cage” in the Paste ruins inside Fort Adams at Newport Folk Festival. Paste’s coverage of the 2011...