Another song list! This one is a personal favorite of mine, because it means I get to spend a lot of time with artists I like covering other artist’s songs. Last December, Paste crowned Merce Lemon’s ...

Running time: 132 minutes. Rated PG-13 (thematic material, some strong language, some sexual material and brief drug use). In theaters Dec. 25. If there’s one slam-dunk choice in “Song Sung Blue,” ...

These songs hit differently now... Join us as we explore unforgettable cover versions that gained heartbreaking new meaning due to the artists' personal struggles and tragic fates. From Johnny Cash's ...

Last week Cameron Winter, whose band Geese made our favorite album of the year, played a spectacular-looking solo set at Carnegie Hall that Paul Thomas Anderson and Benny Safdie just so happened to be ...

Bruno Mars' most recent concert appearance took place at a private event with some of the most legendary musicians in the business. Thankfully, someone captured and shared footage of the musician ...

It helps to walk into the new romantic drama Song Sung Blue – which carries an ostensibly ridiculous premise in that it follows two lovers in a Milwaukee-based Neil Diamond cover band named Lightning ...

A Book Review art director selects the book jackets that surprised him, delighted him and stayed with him this year. A Book Review art director selects the book jackets that surprised him, delighted ...

What separates an average cover song from a truly great one? Some covers become even more iconic than the originals, but what makes them stand out? This deep dive explores three of the greatest cover ...

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 ...

The best songs of 2025 worked admirably toward the daunting task of attempting to describe what it feels like to be alive in the unpredictability matrix of the mid-’20s. Songwriters expressing pangs ...