11.6.2012

Jeff Ament has been making music professionally for 30 years, first in Green River and Mother Love Bone and most famously in Seattle stalwarts Pearl Jam, and during that time he has compiled a very...

Singer/songwriter John McCauley may not want to be seen as only a folk musician but he certainly sets his life up in a way not reflective of that. He has shaggy blonde hair, writes songs about...

When Carrie Preston makes a movie “about” men, the gloves come off and the artistic collaborations come out. Sex—and anything that might complicate or confuse the experience, is the subject of her...

British composer/producer Neil Davidge, best known for his work with trip-hop pioneers Massive Attack, has delved into a wide variety of projects...

“When I was a kid, somehow a story started circulating in West Memphis. I can only guess at its origin, but something about it horrified me. In fact, the whole town was pretty on edge. People were...

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...

In an interview with Paste leading up to the release of the excellent Swing Lo Magellan earlier this year, Dirty Projectors’ songwriter Dave Longstreth indicated that he had “70 ideas” and “40...

It had all of the elements of a perfect storm. Review copies of Waging Heavy Peace Neil Young’s long awaited autobiography and Psychedelic Pill, the...

Assuming the Mayans and your particularly obnoxious Facebook friends were right all along and the world is actually ending on Dec. 21, then no one can say Andrew Bird wasted his last year of life on...

Yé-yé is having a banner year, or at least the biggest year it’s probably had in a long time, in that at least a few dozen more people were introduced to the style of 1960s and ‘70s French pop piloted...

If you release a Christmas album in 2012 (and you’re not Michael Bublé), you’re either a merry prankster (Sufjan Stevens) or you’re being held at gunpoint by your record label. You’re also probably an...

Rule #1: Never kill an innocent person. Rule #2: Never get caught. While Dexter has made mistakes in the past, the one he made this episode is quite different. Why exactly? Because the Wayne Randall...

The truth is starting to surface in many different ways on Sons of Anarchy, but it doesn’t look as if it will set anyone free. Gemma, after getting high and running into a tree and nearly killing her...

Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff and Doris Day? Vera Jayne Palmer and Jayne Mansfield? Norma Jeane Baker and Marilyn Monroe? Did these real-life female...

Neil Young’s new autobiography, Waging Heavy Peace, largely recounts the strange career of its writer, but it contains few of the brilliant peaks that make some of Young’s frustrating releases worth...

Paste met up with soulful pop-rockers Pickwick for the latest installment in the Telluride Sessions, brought to you in partnership with Horny Toad. In...

When Joe Pug decided to give up his job as a carpenter to pursue music four years ago, he didn’t sit around and wait for the industry to find him. After writing the songs that would eventually make up...

Bad Books released their second album, II, on October 9th, 2012 and have already finished one leg of a tour in support of the most recent addition to...

Beth Orton’s career has spanned decades and continents, but her most recent release, Sugaring Season, exemplifies exactly the kind of pop-infused folk that attracted fans in the first place. The...

On Nov. 20, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit will be releasing Live From Alabama on Lightning Rod Records/Thirty Tigers. Recorded over the course of a...