Daily Newsletter, June 5, 2024

ANASTASIA COOPE DARNING WOMAN JAGJAGUWAR Being labeled as a singer-songwriter and taking quite an experimental route with your music can be both a blessing and a curse for an artist. Doing that on your debut album, as Anastasia Coope does on Darning Woman doubles the risk. Yet, it seems Coope didn’t care much about the […]

This is a set of dark, shadowy art pop songs, or compositions, if you will, suited for those melancholy twilights that just keep on happening.

IDAHO LAPSE ARTS & CRAFTS Back in the 90s and on into the new century, Jeff Martin and Idaho were coming up with some of the best sounds within what was dubbed as slowcore. While all the sounds connected with slowcore slowly went into the background, so did the Idaho output. Now, there not only […]

THE BIRD CALLS OLD FAITHFUL RUINATION RECORD CO. Taking a similar route to the likes of Bill Callaghan and/or Will Oldham, often means that the artist in question is an individual that prefers solitude to create some delicate, well, individualistic music. Hence, very often, as is the case of Sam Sodomsky, who operates under the […]

We humbly present the 30 best albums of 2024 so far, a list of the music that's wowed us over the year's first half. See where your favorites ranked.

For nearly 70 years, recorded music’s canon has breathed life into every corner of humanity. Here is Paste's Greatest Albums of All Time list.

Country music is back, and as it finds a new voice in a more progressive world, we argue whether the recycling of genre is a good or a bad thing.

Forty years ago Bruce Springsteen’s bleak portrait of America’s discarded working class was miscast as a patriotic anthem.

On July 29, 1966, Bob Dylan suffered injuries due to a motorcycle accident. Or at least we think he did. It's one of the most mysterious incidents in the history of rock and roll, one where it's hard to separate what likely happened from the myths that have grown up around it. We might never know the true answer. But if we go back to when it happened and examine the circumstances, we can take our best educated guess about what essentially put an end Bob Dylan's most furiously productive era.

Weed may not be for everyone, but these fantastic songs should be.

Every month, The FADER shares a rolling playlist of the Songs You Need In Your Life, updated daily.