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.
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 ...
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 ...
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, 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, August 2005
Beyond the Belly: Colombian songstress trumps lazy stereotypes with raw talent ...
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, 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, 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, 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 ...
Bob Dylan: The Curmudgeon: Interpreting Lyrics
Column by Geoffrey Himes, Paste, 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, 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 ...
Frank Ocean: New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, New Orleans
Live Review by Geoffrey Himes, Paste, 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, 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, ...
Jesse Winchester: An Appreciation
Obituary by Geoffrey Himes, Paste, 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, 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 ...
Justin Townes Earle: Light at the End of the Tunnel
Report and Interview by Geoffrey Himes, Paste, 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, 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, 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, Kasey Musgraves: The Ladies Used to Love Outlaws, Now The Ladies Are Outlaws
Report by Geoffrey Himes, Paste, 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, 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, June 2016
WHO IS THE most underrated songwriter of the rock 'n' roll era? Percy Mayfield. ...
Live Review by Geoffrey Himes, Paste, 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, February 2017
THE 1978 ALBUM NRBQ at Yankee Stadium boasts a delightful visual joke. ...
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