Daily Newsletter, December 1, 2025

I have never run a marathon. I doubt I ever will. But I have seen plenty on the Olympics. You have too, I suspect. So you’re familiar with those late-race shots of haggard runners as they grimly plod along the last mile, staring desperately at the finish line and praying they can keep it together […]

Justin Bieber, The Beatles, Neil Young, and Ray Charles put out some of the month’s finest vinyl releases.

As a teenager, growing up in New Jersey during the 1960s, the pianist Donald Fagen routinely took a bus into Manhattan to hear his jazz heroes in the

Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

While it may not be the most immediately recognisable symbol of England, the white horse on the front of XTC's 'English Settlement' is quintessentially English.

Is he a 'guitarist' in your conventional sense? Can 'shredders' actually learn something from a 'sloppy' player?

Our guide to the best jazz LPs on Bandcamp.

Next week’s book list reminded me: I interviewed John Darnielle once. It was about 25 years ago, when the Mountain Goats founder was still recording albums at home on a boom box — and still working as a counselor for children with behavioral problems. He’s come a long way since then — so far, in […]

The year's top music-related reads include bios and memoirs associated with the Beatles, The Band, Tom Petty, Elvis Presley, Bruce Springsteen, Santana and others.

When Austrian philosopher Otto Neurath invented the visual language of Isotypes, it was to democratise education. As a new exhibition shows, it ended up influencing pop art, graphic design and electronic musicians from Kraftwerk to OMD

Going to the movies with my dad

There's 177 new special edition physical releases out today, so go support your local music purveyor. On this abbreviated version of 'New Music Friday,' host Stephen Thompson shares a taste of what's waiting for you.