10.16.2012

Call the authorities—there’s been a murder at the Wainwright residence. While I’m on the phone with Martha Wainwright discussing her forthcoming album, Come Home To Mama (which comes out today), her...

History has shown there are few artists who manage to keep the creative juices flowing late in their careers. It’s too easy to rest on your laurels, to fall into old habits, to “give the fans what...

Something ridiculous happened to Ben Gibbard yesterday, but aside from that small detail, he can’t talk about it. While he’s explaining the absurdity of the event without mentioning much more, it...

For a film that’s about, on one level, the dangers of artistic collaboration, Ry Russo-Young’s third feature film Nobody Walks certainly did involve an awful lot of collaboration in its development....

A pair of dudes, high on booze and freedom, pull an impossibly long tandem bicycle off the wall. If this Culver City fire station wasn’t so crowded they’d be joyriding by now. But at the moment this...

It occurred to me yesterday, as I was reading Live From New York, a book about the history of Saturday Night Live, that I had become addicted to oral histories. It’s a genre that has exploded over the...

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...

Laura Marling demands your full attention. She stands at the microphone that’s been placed in front of her, with her skinny gray jeans on legs crossed down near the ankle, Toms shoes on. She looks to...

Canadian-American singer-songwriter and all-around hyphenated artist Martha Wainwright’s third studio album, Come Home To Mama, drops and soars emotionally. Here’s an artist who can write. The full...

Information Retrieved is the sort of album you want to listen to with headphones on, so as to make sure not to miss a single pluck of the guitar string or tap of the snare drum. In the five years...

Let’s talk about what’s happened in dramatic, instrumental-heavy rock (some might call it post rock) in the 10 years since Godspeed You! Black Emperor...

Pop-rappers are always the villains. Flo Rida, Black Eyed Peas, “Starships,” supposedly overly earnest, banal, mindless—this is the stuff Real Rap fights against with classic tropes like crack cooking...

Spawning from heartland of America’s Midwest, Chicago-based Santah know how to play off of their strengths by seamlessly blending quiet melodies with equally soft instrumentation to form a well...

For those people with lingering questions about Ben Affleck’s talents as a filmmaker, Argo should remove any doubt. The actor has now directed a trio of hard-working, blood-pumping dramas—his latest...

Transplanted to 1944 Nazi-occupied France, Louis Pergaud’s 1912 Lord of the Flies-esque novel about a play war between the boys of two neighboring villages takes on metaphoric significance in this...

The biggest criticism of The Walking Dead‘s second season—at least until the finale—was that it was too slow. The peacefulness of the farm gave the characters a chance to pause, relax and wrestle with...

While “State of Independence” ends with Carrie freeing herself from the mental prison in which she was incarcerated, the bulk of the episode concentrates on Nicholas Brody and the supporting cast....

This episode subjected us to one of the cruelest opening sequences in Grimm history: an ecstatic Nick watches Juliette regain her memory to tell him she believes he’s a Grimm, only to realize he’s...

The overhead shot of Rosetti, clambering down the hallway of human carcasses, belt-leash still tied, was his most graphic scene yet, in an episode just short of its coup de grace. As Owen reports to...

What various corrupt police officers did during the flood has been part of Treme since its very beginning, though it’s been simmering slowly. “The Greatest Love” manages to give this storyline some...

Ever since Alicia and Will had that steamy hotel elevator scene in the season two finale, viewers have known that Alicia’s relationship with Will could cause trouble for Peter’s political career. And...

The most fascinating aspect of 666 Park Avenue thus far has been watching Gavin and Olivia slowly making progress on their newest prospects, Jane and Henry. The show is allowing us to see Gavin’s...

When Nick and Jess partied with a bunch of college students late last season on New Girl, they came to the realization that they were no longer the young partiers they believed themselves to be....

Every season of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia begins with a clean slate to do more horrible things. When Sweet Dee gave birth at the end of season...

Thanks to last week’s presidential debate, we were treated to a bonus Modern Family this week. It’s too early to say, but this duo of episodes seem to be paving the way for a better season. Although...

Some of the greatest sitcom episodes deal with homemade games. There’s “The Contest” from Seinfeld and arguably one of the finest television comedy half-hour’s ever, Friends’ “The One With The...

Most episodes of The New Normal can be compared to how Nana describes feeling during Shania’s fake wedding: “Why am I even watching this? I feel like my eyes are bleeding” The New Normal is hardly a...

It was all fun and games on this week’s How I Met Your Mother. Literally. Marshall invented “Who Wants to be a Godparent?”—which also serves as the episode title—to determine which one of his friends...

Last week proved Revolution isn’t afraid of hitting us where it hurts. Killing off Maggie was shocking, and revealing Rachel’s true allegiance was less so, but it packed a punch. This week the show...

“So what’s this FTL game you guys have been raving about?” I asked my friend, attempting a more gentle phrasing of “what’s this thing you won’t shut up about?” “You remember that Battlestar Galactica...

Starting this month we’ll be expanding our games coverage with regular board game reviews. As part of Zombie Week, board game aficionado Charlie Hall...

Girls Like RobotsPlatform: iOSDeveloper: PopcannibalPublisher: Adult SwimRelease Date: 10/11/2012Price: $0.99 We spend a lot of time trying not to think about how awkward we probably were in high...

At one point in the British film My Son the Fanatic, scripted by Hanif Kureishi and based on his short story, a white comedian performing in the 1990s in a club in the northern English town of...

Paste met up with Warren Haynes in Telluride before his band Gov’t Mule played an impressive set at the 2012 Telluride Blues and Brews Fest. The...

The members of Lucius have managed to craft a sound that beautifully intertwines their influences and expertise. The dueling vocals of Holly Laessig...

At the Telluride Blues & Brews Festival, Paste caught up with Heartless Bastards for an intimate performance of their track “Parted...

Reflecting upon one of the most successful musical collaborations of all time, Glen Campbell and Jimmy Webb In Session… is a CD/DVD release nearly all...