Every June, the Paste team tallies up its favorite songs of the previous six months. It’s a great way for us to present our favorites to you, but also to each other. The cut-off date for these songs ...

Year-end season is normally all about positivity—publications pick their favorite albums and songs from the previous 12 months, and then we all argue over placements and omissions. “Where’s __?” is an ...

Blur recently brought their supporting tour for their 2023 comeback album The Ballad Of Darren to a close with two appearances at this year’s Coachella. Online discourse suggested the pair of ...

When we first meet Oppenheimer, he is somewhat of an outcast. Emotionally challenged and homesick, he knew that his heart lay somewhere else, so much so that he is distracted in the Chemistry ...

Our countdown is complete, topped by a mercurial work of sprawling invention by a woman who has dug deep to survive. Taken as a whole, these choices contain drama, solace, poetry and fire, a fitting ...

On a sweltering summer afternoon, the writer and techno musician DeForrest Brown, Jr., welcomed a visitor into his cozy East Village apartment. After the usual, awkward COVID-19 theatre—disclosing ...

Lots of indie bands have mined the giddiness and sexual empowerment of the disco era, but few have tapped into the cultural fracture that followed it. The language of identity crisis is all over Mr ...

Few recent British rock bands seem to have much grasp of the islands'musical history prior to the 1960s, so These New Puritans' fascination with 17th century choral music would be refreshing even if ...