11.13.2012

In love and expecting her first child, Sarah Assbring, who writes and performs as El Perro Del Mar, exudes bliss. Speaking from her current home base in Stockholm, Sweden, she maintains her languorous...

Mads Damsgaard Kristiansen and Esben Valloe, known together as Reptile Youth, are in America for the first time. They are hung over. It’s the day after their first performance at the CMJ Music...

For the past two years, almost every weekday has started the same way. I wake up, I find the 10 most interesting or important sports stories on ESPN.com, I write a one-sentence summary with a link,...

When grunge thudded and thundered onto the sludgy scene in the late 1980s, the music world was a different place. Sub Pop was pioneering the sound of the new genre that took influence from heavy metal...

In Nabokov’s Pale Fire, the title refers not just to the 999-line poem at the center of the novel, but also to the poet’s peculiar habit of burning each prior draft of his completed verse in the “pale...

Everything in The Babies’ “career” up to this point has felt very much like a side project. With a collection of songs of varying degrees of quality and fidelity, the band seemed little more than an...

Every new album Crystal Castles releases is lacking one thing: a name. Each self-titled entry is instead branded with a number—a good choice, considering each feels like a chapter in the same book,...

Armed with one of the more respected back catalogs in the realm of ambient art-rock, Oneida has begun to transcend the tenets of the repetitive, psychedelic noise mishmash they helped usher into New...

Following up the chilly, gothic-tinged electro-pop of this year’s well-named Ghostory, School of Seven Bells (currently duo Benjamin Curtis and Alejandra Deheza) have gotten even chillier and more...

Over the past 15 years, Clinic have carved out a distinctive niche in the rock ’n’ roll landscape. Taking cues from experimental rock groups like Can, Suicide and the Velvet Underground, supplemented...

Steven Spielberg boasts one of the most accomplished bodies of work in American cinema and, to this day, steadily builds upon that dominant track record. From the breathtaking 3D action sequences of...

Believe it or not, just like most young bands, there was a time early on in the ’60s when The Rolling Stones didn’t know how long their rock star careers would last. “We’ll probably be around for a...

This season has been chock-full of gobsmacking conclusions. Gyp sets a person on fire. Gillian draws a deadly bath. The Boardwalk explodes. Bobby Cannavale bares all, internet swoons, etc. True to...

In contrast to last week’s Mardi Gras celebration episode that offered Treme a brief moment of respite and celebration, this week we had an explosion of events. I’m not certain if more happened in...

“Tom [Walker] lost his way; he just went through too many things and he couldn’t get right again.” Did you pick up on that quote from Brody during the car ride to the fundraiser at the horse farm in...

One of the joys of Parks and Recreation has been watching the show grow its universe. It’s come in the form of the Pawnee townsfolk’s recurring characters like Perd and Joan, but also from the way its...

The Office has always been great at making us laugh at the painfully awkward, whether it’s by tweaking the absurdity levels just the right amount or following up the cringeworthy moments with...

You have to wonder what the conversation was like when American Horror Story: Asylum offered Chloë Sevigny the role of Shelley. “So you’re going to start off as a nymphomaniac, then we are going to...

Singer-songwriter Amy Cook released her latest album Summer Skin in August, and the album had plenty of collaborators to give her refreshing sound...

Last month, Paste gave you a free download of “Never Going Back,” a track from Samantha Crain’s forthcoming album Kid Face. The track itself...

The Nightwatchman is the solo act of guitarist Tom Morello, who is known for his involvement in Rage Against The Machine, Audioslave and Street...

It’s easy to love British singer-songwriter Frank Turner. As if he weren’t already pulling at our heartstrings with his creative lyrics, rowdy songs, and his well-known affinity for beer, Turner’s...

Where does a band like San Francisco’s Social Studies come from and why has it stayed so well hidden? It’s probably a mystery that has very little answer, but the sinewy and rich verve that seems to...

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...

While there will always be a place for dry, fact-choked reference books like The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll, they fail to capture the...