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Paste is a monthly music and entertainment magazine. Its tagline is "Signs of Life in Music, Film and Culture." In 2005, Paste was listed at #21 on The Chicago Tribune's list of "50 Best Magazines". Paste appeared on that newspaper's list again in 2007. Paste was also named "Magazine of the Year" by the PLUG Independent Music Awards in 2006, 2007 and 2008. In 2008, Paste was nominated for a National Magazine Award in the category of General Excellence.
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Janelle Monae
we want to make sure that the music is really funky, really pushing the limits—and just freeing,” she says. She talks frequently about exercising her right to be free. That freedom rings loudly from the stage, where she darts around with the gleeful, unselfconscious abandon of a child. more at www.pastemagazine.com
about 1 year ago.
Caroline Herring
And rather than an immaculately auto-tuned robo-singer, Herring effortlessly plumbs the emotional depths of her songs with her evocative alto. Her delivery, along with Rich Brotherton’s pitch-perfect production, makes this song cycle resonant in more ways than a simple, rootsy singer/songwriter album ought to. Lantana comes on the heels of a five-year break Herring took to get married and start a family; her music is all the richer for it. more at www.pastemagazine.com
about 1 year ago.
The Felice Brothers
“We don’t care about the genre,” James says. “We just care about good music. I always enjoy the concept of stories, and I think that’s something we do well.” more at www.pastemagazine.com
about 1 year ago.
Death On Two Wheels
Death On Two Wheels makes rock ’n’ roll dangerous again, with slurry-blurry lyrics, half-cocked dreamspeak of portents and regret, and a formidable guitar attack that recalls the nasty duels Allen Collins waged with Gary Rossington before Skynyrd’s final plane ride. more at www.pastemagazine.com
about 1 year ago.
Deastro
“Parallelogram,” the first single from Moondagger, is a Polaroid reflection of the upcoming album and an upgrade from his solo pursuits, spinning rapid-fire drums, a nursery rhyme vocal styling and a dreamscape collision of guitar and keyboard into a web of infectious hooks and sticky rhythms that can only come from a collection of likeminded musicians. more at www.pastemagazine.com
about 1 year ago.
Ruthie Foster
There’s no denying the power of Foster’s monstrous voice, and while it’s tempting to say her smooth vibrato can do no wrong, the genre-bending singer bends a bit too much here. more at www.pastemagazine.com
about 1 year ago.
Kristoffer Rangstam (Sweden)
On his fascinating second album, the intricate soundscapes promise relief from the mundane world, with fuzzy guitars, itchy rhythms, layered voices and juicy melodies converging for a familiar yet surprisingly fresh experience. more at www.pastemagazine.com
about 1 year ago.
Dan Auerbach
Keep It Hid bares some traces of the Black Keys’ wallop, but Auerbach places more emphasis on melody and spacious production, bolstering his familiar barn-burning blues with a sense of exploration and comfort. more at www.pastemagazine.com
about 1 year ago.
The Little Ones
The Little Ones haven’t yet realized that the key to really good power-pop is to underpin it with a little darkness and angst, with some eccentric pathologies and intelligent narrative arcs. Instead it seems like The Little Ones found some of the Flaming Lips’ animal suits discarded in a dustbin, put them on, and spent the next 11 songs spinning relentlessly cheerful yarns that blur together like the lines of an epic poem—a cartoonish rock Iliad sung in freakish, sped-up unison. more at www.pastemagazine.com
about 1 year ago.
Me You Us Them
Me You Us Them meld an intense blend of distorted, off-kilter guitar riffs with searing vocal melodies, rendering them one of the most memorable shoe-gaze groups in recent memory. more at www.pastemagazine.com
about 1 year ago.