Paste is the place to kick off each and every New Music Friday. We follow our regular roundups of the best new songs by ...

Prog-rock legend Adrian Belew on preventing a Talking Heads coup, shaking up King Crimson, and going to Graceland.

Expertly performed, emotionally generous & musically superb, it offered a rare glimpse behind the curtain of an artist at the top of his game ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

By nightfall, she’s onstage at the Marysville Opera House with Chicago Tribute Authority Seattle, an 11‑piece group channeling the 1970s band and their horns. Teacher by day, rock star by night. “I ...

The hometown Trim/Breiwick Quartet kept it tight, with originals inspired by the standards, at The Estate on Feb. 28.

Just 18 months after Neil Sedaka topped the Billboard Hot 100 in August 1962 with “Breaking Up Is Hard To Do,” it appeared that his career as a hitmaker was over. And for more than a decade, it was, ...

The Conway Symphony Orchestra and Israel Getzov performs John Williams’ score while the movie screens behind them for “JAWS ...

He wrote and sang the band’s hit single Let Go the Line, and later pursued a career in medical illustration and did landscape painting ...

Across the 21st century as a soloist or in two other bands - Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, and the recent supergroup called ...

This year has already given us a bounty of beautiful new records. Here are just 10 of the best we've heard so far.

Check out some of our favourite Irish releases from the week Patrick McMenamin, Do or Die Hot off his debut EP, The More Things Change, Donegal artist Patrick McMenamin has released Do or Die. Do or ...