Paste
Paste magazine, published in Avondale Estates, Georgia, was founded as a quarterly music and entertainment magazine in July 2002, moving to a monthly magazine with its August 2006 issue. It ceased publication in August 2010. A digital edition, pastemagazine.com, continues.
49 articles
Solomon Burke: Don't Give Up On Me
Review by j. poet, Paste, 7 January 2003
WHEN CRITICS began raving about Burke's comeback album, more than a few fools in the crowd asked "Solomon who?" ...
Report and Interview by j. poet, Paste, 15 June 2003
"I'M NOT A militant female songwriter, and I wouldn't want to be considered some kind of new age uber-feminist," Rosanne Cash says. "But having said that, ...
Review by j. poet, Paste, 1 October 2003
JOAN BAEZ hasn't written a song in 10 years, but she maintains an unerring instinct for choosing good material. ...
Drive-By Truckers: The Rise, Fall and Redemption of the Redneck Warrior Poets of Rock 'n' Roll
Profile and Interview by Steve LaBate, Paste, 2004
TEN, NINE... This is a story about rock 'n' roll. ...
Review by Steve LaBate, Paste, 2004
SO HOW DO YOU follow the dense, experimental, critically worshipped Yankee Hotel Foxtrot? The latest version of Wilco answers with an overwhelming, at times postmodern ...
Howlin' Wolf: The Howlin' Wolf Story
Film/DVD/TV Review by j. poet, Paste, 23 January 2004
THE DEBATE ABOUT precisely when the blues became rock'n'roll will go on forever, but the footage of The Howlin' Wolf Story makes a good case ...
The Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, Van Dyke Parks: Brian Wilson Remembers How to Smile
Report and Interview by Geoffrey Himes, Paste, October 2004
WHAT would have happened if, as planned, The Beach Boys had released the Smile album in the summer of 1967? For starters, people would have ...
Michael Franti: Various Artists: Reggae on the River
Film/DVD/TV Review by j. poet, Paste, October 2004
TWENTY YEARS AGO, the residents of Piercy, Calif., held a benefit concert to rebuild a community centre torched by a local arsonist. ...
Report and Interview by j. poet, Paste, 1 December 2004
AT THE BEGINNING of every autumn, the local music community in Martha's Vineyard comes alive. That's when the vacationers leave and the working-class folks who ...
Review by j. poet, Paste, 18 January 2005
CERTAIN TRACKS on Beat Cafe sound like they could be outtakes from Donovan's 1967 album Mellow Yellow, but I'll let you decide if that's a ...
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Paste, April 2005
JIMI GOODWIN, the affable and bearded bassist-singer with Mancunian trio Doves, leans forward in his seat for an endearing moment of honesty. ...
Mofro: The Pageant, St. Louis, Mo.
Live Review by Kandia Crazy Horse, Paste, 18 June 2005
PERHAPS THE RED, white and blue spotlights at St. Louis's Pageant should've served as trickster clues. Or the snide remark of a toasted, aging frat ...
Shakira: Fijación Oral, Vol. 1 (Epic)
Review by Mark Kemp, Paste, 23 August 2005
Beyond the Belly: Colombian songstress trumps lazy stereotypes with raw talent ...
Solomon Burke, Joe Henry, Bettye LaVette, Allen Toussaint: Joe Henry
Interview by Bud Scoppa, Paste, 10 January 2006
BEFORE PRODUCING Solomon Burke's modern-day soul landmark, Don't Give Up On Me, in 2002, Joe Henry was a modest-selling "critic's darling" with a reputation for ...
Retrospective by Mark Kemp, Paste, October 2007
ONE OF THE MORE telling songs in John Lennon's solo catalog is the tender 'Look at Me.' Not the well-scrubbed version on his first album, ...
Johnny Cash: Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison (Legacy Edition)
Review by Mark Kemp, Paste, October 2008
IN THE DOCUMENTARY included with this new edition of Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison, daughter Rosanne shatters the mythology surrounding her dad, gently bringing him ...
Radiohead: Pablo Honey, The Bends, OK Computer (reissues)
Retrospective by Mark Kemp, Paste, 27 March 2009
WHILE THE BRITISH PRESS argued over whether Oasis' Definitely Maybe or Blur's Parklife would be the savior of mid-'90s U.K. rock, Radiohead sneaked a spanner ...
Retrospective by Steven R Rosen, Paste, 22 August 2011
WHEN DON MCLEAN'S "American Pie" was released in late 1971, everyone tried to analyze what he meant by "the day the music died." McLean was ...
Review by Holly Gleason, Paste, 4 April 2012
TO LIVE AND BREATHE in the sketchiest part of the Quarter...to hustle and flow, to let go... to get saved and find a funky kind ...
Interview by Geoffrey Himes, Paste, 9 July 2012
IN 2009, Old Crow Medicine Show's Ketch Secor was half-listening to a National Public Radio story on Levi Barnard, an American soldier who had died ...
Bob Dylan: The Curmudgeon: Interpreting Lyrics
Column by Geoffrey Himes, Paste, 13 November 2012
A QUICK SURFING run through the blogosphere confirms that the Dylanologists are already poring over Bob Dylan's lyrics from Tempest as if the bloggers were ...
Camper Van Beethoven, Cracker: Camper Van Beethoven: California Dreamin'
Report and Interview by Geoffrey Himes, Paste, 22 January 2013
DAVID LOWERY is the lead singer and chief lyricist for two well-known rock bands: Camper Van Beethoven, which he co-founded in 1983, and Cracker, which ...
Adele, Whitney Houston, Taylor Swift: Divas and Anti-Divas
Overview by Geoffrey Himes, Paste, 22 January 2013
ACCORDING TO the Nielsen SoundScan, the bestselling album of 2012 was Adele's 21, which sold 4.4 million copies, followed by Taylor Swift's Red, which sold ...
Rodney Crowell, Emmylou Harris: Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell: Friendship Aged Like Bluebird Wine
Profile and Interview by Geoffrey Himes, Paste, 19 February 2013
WHEN GEORGE JONES asked Emmylou Harris to sing a duet with him on his 1979 album My Very Special Guests, she suggested a song by ...
Frank Ocean: New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, New Orleans
Live Review by Geoffrey Himes, Paste, 5 May 2013
FRANK OCEAN has not only created a new kind of R&B album for the hip-hop era, but he's also creating a new kind of R&B ...
Janelle Monáe: Imagining Her Own Future
Interview by Geoffrey Himes, Paste, 10 September 2013
CINDI MAYWEATHER is the central character in Janelle Monáe's last three recordings: the 2008 EP Metropolis, the 2010 album The ArchAndroid, and this month's album, ...
Rosanne Cash: The River & The Thread
Review by Holly Gleason, Paste, 21 January 2014
LIKE A GOOD claret or damp moss, Rosanne Cash's singing is something to sink into. Surrender to the tones – mostly dark, but marked by ...
Robert Ellis: The Lights from the Chemical Plant
Review by Holly Gleason, Paste, 11 February 2014
LIKE SAM SHEPARD, Robert Ellis understands the tenderness beneath the untamed's leathery exterior. Born and raised in Lake Jackson, Texas, recently relocated to nouveau hipster ...
Jesse Winchester: An Appreciation
Obituary by Geoffrey Himes, Paste, 14 April 2014
FOR 10 YEARS, from 1967 to 1977, Jesse Winchester couldn't set foot in the United States, the nation where he had lived until he was ...
Ian McLagan: Remembering Ian McLagan
Obituary by Geoffrey Himes, Paste, 5 December 2014
IN JUNE, IAN McLagan told The Austin Chronicle, his hometown paper since 1994, that he would be going out on tour in 2015 with the ...
The Band, Bob Dylan: Bob Dylan: Basement Tapes and Free-Floating Stanzas
Retrospective by Geoffrey Himes, Paste, 16 December 2014
BOB DYLAN HAS been much in the press lately thanks to the release of the six-CD box set, The Basement Tapes Complete and of The ...
Justin Townes Earle: Light at the End of the Tunnel
Report and Interview by Geoffrey Himes, Paste, 13 January 2015
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE released Single Mothers, one of the best albums of 2014, just four months ago in September. This week he's back with another ...
Sleater-Kinney: Punk Lyrics: Shortening The Line
Comment by Geoffrey Himes, Paste, 4 March 2015
A LOT OF GOOD THINGS are happening on Sleater-Kinney's first album in ten years, but I want to talk about one aspect that often gets ...
Jason Isbell: Making the Ordinary Exceptional
Report and Interview by Geoffrey Himes, Paste, 21 July 2015
JASON ISBELL'S new album Something More Than Free had to be different from his last one. Southeastern, his 2013 release, was born out of the ...
Ashley Monroe, Kacey Musgraves: The Ladies Used to Love Outlaws, Now The Ladies Are Outlaws
Report by Geoffrey Himes, Paste, 1 September 2015
"LADIES LOVE OUTLAWS," Waylon Jennings sang in 1972, "like babies love stray dogs." Jennings was boasting. He presented himself as a desperado and would soon ...
Guy Clark: Remembering Guy Clark, The Craftsman
Obituary by Geoffrey Himes, Paste, 18 May 2016
GUY CLARK'S favorite place was the basement of his West Nashville home, where he painstakingly hand-built flamenco guitars and hand-built songs with the same exacting ...
Percy Mayfield: The Poet of the Blues
Retrospective by Geoffrey Himes, Paste, 3 June 2016
WHO IS THE most underrated songwriter of the rock 'n' roll era? Percy Mayfield. ...
Live Review by Geoffrey Himes, Paste, 8 August 2016
"I WILL NOT commit nor will I submit to musical genocide," Gregory Porter sang Saturday afternoon at the 11th annual Summer Spirit Festival. ...
NRBQ: The Disappearing Art of Bar Band Music
Retrospective by Geoffrey Himes, Paste, 20 February 2017
THE 1978 ALBUM NRBQ at Yankee Stadium boasts a delightful visual joke. ...
Valerie June Wants to Be Set Free
Profile and Interview by Geoffrey Himes, Paste, 17 March 2017
'GOT SOUL' is the final track on The Order of Time, Valerie June's long-awaited follow-up to her 2013 breakthrough album, Pushin' Against a Stone. The ...
Review and Interview by Geoffrey Himes, Paste, 9 June 2017
CHUCK BERRY WAS one of our nation's great writers. In fact, it's puzzling that the Library of America hasn't yet turned his collected lyrics, poetry ...
Comment by Geoffrey Himes, Paste, 15 November 2017
Even as the tools of popular music evolve further from the analog to the digital, the spirit of the rock 'n' roll is as dangerous ...
Retrospective by Geoffrey Himes, Paste, 21 November 2017
WHEN THE FOLLOWERS of Charles Manson murdered Sharon Tate, the pregnant movie-actress wife of movie director Roman Polanski, on Aug. 9, 1969, it was Plan ...
Bettye LaVette Takes Bob Dylan Where He's Never Been Before
Profile and Interview by Geoffrey Himes, Paste, 27 March 2018
On her new album, Things Have Changed, the great American soul singer reminds us just how fruitful reinvented songs can be in the right hands. ...
Profile and Interview by Geoffrey Himes, Paste, 9 April 2018
A career spent blending sunny pop and punk aggression finds its ideal source material in Hatfield's childhood music heroine. ...
David Bromberg: A City Helps Out a Musician, and Vice Versa
Report and Interview by Geoffrey Himes, Paste, 15 June 2018
Big Noise Festival is a public celebration of David Bromberg's contributions to the city of Wilmington, Del. ...
J.J. Cale, Leon Russell: Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the Legacy of Leon Russell and J.J. Cale
Retrospective and Interview by Geoffrey Himes, Paste, 16 April 2019
THREE OF THE most prominent shapers of the Tulsa Sound have died over the past six years: J.J. Cale in 2013, Leon Russell in 2016 and the ...
Fontaines DC: The Sons of Lou Are Playing a Velvet Guitar
Profile by Geoffrey Himes, Paste, 11 September 2019
IN THE 1960s, when groundbreaking songwriters such as Bob Dylan, John Lennon and Paul Simon were all working within the romantic tradition, Lou Reed stood out ...
Memoir by Geoffrey Himes, Paste, 29 October 2020
Wacko from Waco and Poet Laureate of the Honky Tonks ...
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