Paste Studio “On The Road” headed south to the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee. Since its formation in 2009, the Big Ears Festival has been known for its diverse lineup and boundary-crossing ...

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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 ...

When it comes to press releases, what is not said often speaks louder than what’s on the page. As of today, Spotify’s official line regarding their partnership with Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...

Every Thursday, the Paste staff and contributors will choose their five favorite songs of the week, awarding one entry a “Song of the Week” designation. You can hear these songs in our ongoing Best ...

It was always a bit of a long shot for the Yankees to beat the Mariners yesterday to finish the sweep, Bryan Woo vs. Marcus Stroman being the mismatch that it is (even if Stroman ultimately only ...

The dancefloor's 100 most essential tracks. The term “dance music” may conjure visions of heaving clubs, packed festival tents and partying with abandon, and certainly these concepts are a substantial ...

For all of its exhausting megastar narratives and apparent monoculture victories, 2023 was, beneath the surface, an unpredictable year. Regional Mexican Music burst into the mainstream, underground ...

2022 was the year of the comeback. As the music industry stumbled out of its pandemic fog, many artists finally delivered long delayed, highly anticipated, and sonically experimental albums that met ...

Pedalboard space; the struggle is real for guitarists. There's just never enough room, is there? The only solution is to downsize, not the pedalboard of course. That would be ridiculous! No, we need ...