Let’s not waste any time here. Paste staff and contributors came together to build a definitive ranking of the greatest guitarists of all time. Here are 150 icons, forgotten heroes, and the best and ...

Let’s not waste any time here. Paste staff and contributors came together to build a definitive ranking of the greatest guitarists of all time. Here are 150 icons, forgotten heroes, and the best and ...

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About a year ago, I was scrolling Instagram, when a hand-drawn, black-and-white post caught my eye. It looked like a flier you’d see stapled to a telephone pole, advertising a local punk show. The ...

“I know you’re probably doing something cool right now,” Zigaboo Modeliste, said over the phone after Chad Gamble picked up. Modeliste is the drummer for legendary New Orleans funk band The Meters.

A Rip Van Winkle who fell asleep in 1980 and woke up in 2014 might’ve been surprised to find that America’s 14-year-olds were still somehow digging super hits of the Seventies like “Escape (The Piña ...

After moving to Los Angeles to pursue his music career, Bill Withers sat at a piano longing for his days in West Virginia surrounded by friends and family. That was the inspiration for “Lean on Me,” ...

“The bass is the foundation,” session legend Carol Kaye once said, “and with the drummer you create the beat. Whatever you play puts a framework around the rest of the music.” A great bass line, ...

Is it because it's a bloody World Cup? Before we get into this, Wales are Grand Slam champions. They beat all in front of them in early Spring, dismantling Ireland in Cardiff in their final fixture to ...

Disco Demolition Night, which happened 40 years ago today, is the day two genres were marked for death. Disco itself was one of them, of course: Chicago radio DJ Steve Dahl, infuriated that his ...

It was the decade of Dylan and Aretha, the Beach Boys and the Beatles, Hendrix and Zeppelin. But that’s not all it was. The 1960s also included the slyly political pop of Brazil’s Os Mutantes, the ...