9.18.2012

It’s hard to imagine Aimee Mann vegging out on the couch in yoga pants and flip-flops and watching cheesy reality TV. She’s far too bookish for that pursuit—too witty and droll, too reserved and...

Sleepwalk With Me, Mike Birbiglia’s comedy-show-turned-book-turned-one-man-Off-Broadway-show-turned-This American Life-feature-turned-Sundance-darling-turned-grassroots-box-office-hit, has got to be...

Like a lot of comics, Jim Hamilton didn’t exactly know what he was doing when he stumbled head-first into the world of comedy. Unlike a lot of comedians, he had an encouraging friend. An engineering...

Taken by a merry ol’ land of woebegone and some desperate, desolate conditions, Grizzly Bear would build their dens and call the place home sweet home for lack of sudor in attempting to get anywhere...

Despite all the evidence to the contrary, it is possible to put on a music awards ceremony that is a brisk, inspiring, entertaining show. These events don’t have to be tedious affairs full of...

Earlier this week, I was in a park with my stepfather. It wasn’t a familiar park, which is rare enough; most of the time I find myself in known surroundings, even if they date back to childhood. I’m...

These songs are labyrinths. Ethereal, harmonic, beautiful—but labyrinths nonetheless. So, that is to say, Shields is a difficult, rewarding album—one to get lost in. Gorgeous and frayed, the...

Ryan Bingham tells the economically busted, morally bankrupt world to go fuck itself… When I sat down to review Ryan Bingham’s newest album, Tomorrowland, I took the usual precautions: I threw back a...

“A ramshackle crew has something to prove,” sings shaggy-haired, big-hearted rock master Ben Bridwell at the outset of his band’s fourth studio album. He ain’t kidding. After the sculpted, reverb...

The fact that Woods has released seven albums in the last seven years isn’t the most remarkable thing about the Brooklyn folk band’s recording output. What stands out beyond the steady delivery of...

On his debut album, 2010’s Love Remains, Tom Krell certainly wasn’t your ordinary R&B star: a scrawny, dorky, bespectacled white dude blending bedroom-goth ambience with a ’90s-era strand of quiet...

A cascading bass line that evokes the work of Motown’s James Jamerson, all fat, swollen and narcotically melodic, opens 3 Pears, Dwight Yoakam’s return to a major label. Coyly credited to co-writer...

Don’t underestimate The Killers, a multi-platinum American band who functions as a synthesizer like LCD Soundsystem or DJ Shadow. Forget their mildly dance-punk origins and they’re an antenna to the...

The Flyest on the Wall: Aimee Mann, mirror This album is full of horrible, heartbreaking things. Things that happen not just to bad people but good people, too. Of course, by the time a few of...

Menomena’s albums have always been patchworks of sorts, the three members sending musical ideas to one another through email and constructing songs using their own software. 2010’s excellent Mines...

This country-fried tribute to the tunes of revered and resilient English songwriter Nick Lowe is for a good cause—proceeds from its sales go to benefit victims of the 2010 Nashville floods and Texas...

It’s nearly unbelievable that, some 40 years after they were recorded, there are still “unreleased” tracks by The Jackson 5. It’s a testament to the sheer, Herculean work ethic at Motown in the ‘60s...

Most recognizable for her recurring role on Two and a Half Men as Charlie’s stalker neighbor, Rose, New Zealander Melanie Lynskey burst into film at age 16 with an award-winning turn in Peter...

Straddling the line between celebration and vilification of its nasty protagonist, Arbitrage plunges into the world of corporate fraud with chilly detachment. Writer/director Nicholas Jarecki’s film...

2012 has been Channing Tatum’s year. After making ladies swoon with the unabashed romance The Vow, he revealed he has comedic chops as well in 21 Jump Street. Then he put on a producer’s hat—and took...

Trust no one. That seems to be the go-to advice for the characters in NBC’s new post-apocalyptic drama Revolution. It’s hard to take the show’s advice with the names attached to the pilot. The series...

After the mass exit of Kristen Wiig, Andy Samberg and Abby Elliott over the summer, there was a little worry as to whether this might be one of those seasons where SNL dips in quality. But to be...

At the end of Touch’s first season, Martin and his son Jake were at the start of a new beginning. Running away from the institution that wanted to put Jake away and traversing from New York City to...

On the second night of NBC’s two-night premiere, The New Normal focuses more on the idea of the unconventional family and less on the hatred-filled quips than it did with the show’s pilot. But when...

Parenthood is entering its fourth season, but it has been overshadowed by the similarly themed, Emmy-winning Modern Family. Of course the latter deserves all of recognition it gets, but the Jason...

Matthew Perry’s highly anticipated return to television took place last August with a preview during the Olympics. Go On, NBC’s new comedy-drama, just officially launched with a two night premiere re...

Over this season of Hell on Wheels, the show has proven two things: One, it’s a show that can produce compelling TV, regardless of what the first season implied. And two: Hell on Wheels is at its most...

“Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.” – Marcel Proust It’s mostly good timing that I’m playing Assassin’s Creed 2 at the same time I’m reviewing...

Super HexagonPlatform: iOSDeveloper: Terry CavanaghRelease Date: 8/31/2012Price: $0.99 When you first play Super Hexagon you’ll probably make it through ten games in 30 seconds. The game is that hard...

Now here’s a wonder. A writer of Panamanian descent, born in Brooklyn and now a son of the South, sits down every day to write The Great Hungarian Novel. Okay, novels. Marc Fitten published his debut,...

In the latest session from our collaboration with Sennheiser in the Paste Ruins at Newport Folk Festival Blitzen Trapper treats us to an unplugged performance of “Jericho,” a track from their 2007...

Thanks to Paste’s partnership with Sennheiser, we’re offering another exclusive video session from the Paste Ruins at the Newport Folk Festival. This...

Clare and the Reasons debuted a new video for ‘The Lake,” a song from their third album KR-51, which was released this summer. The video features the...

Holy Ghost Tent Revival is back with their second full-length album, Sweat Like the Old Days. Released on Sept. 4, the album is a departure from the...

David Wax Museum recently released their latest full-length album, Knock Knock Get Up. The album follows up 2010’s Everything is Saved, and as we’ve...