Amid growing debate over AI-generated music and streaming platforms’ responsibility to protect human artists, AI editing application Kapwing has released a study examining the top-earning AI “artists” ...

Last week, I declared the summer of 2026 to be The Summer of Pissing and Shitting at Concerts. To my horror, I keep being proven right. That’s right, someone dropped a gargantuan turd on the moshpit ...

In celebration of its 60th anniversary on August 5, Paste will be publishing essays about The Beatles’ Revolver. The secret to the Beatles—the reason I haven’t gone more than three days without ...

Gary Stewart is having a second life. Thanks to Jimmy McDonough’s definitive biography, I Am From the Honky-Tonks, the Kentucky-born and Florida-bred country singer’s career is enjoying a renaissance ...

Two years ago, we had Brat Summer. Last year, the exhausting summer of nothing. This year, I regret to report, seems to be The Summer of Pissing and Shitting at Concerts. And it has, perhaps ...

The past week has been filled with announcements regarding FIFA’s ever-expanding setlist for the half-time show of the World Cup final. The show, which will take place at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium ...

As the preliminary hearing of David Anthony Burke—aka D4vd, the singer accused of killing and dismembering 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez—continues, prosecutors have revealed a slew of gruesome ...

L7 bassist, vocalist, and songwriter Jennifer Finch has passed away following an aggressive form of brain cancer. She was 59. “With a very heavy heart we announce that our beloved bandmate, friend, ...

In the music video for “In the Stars,” the remaining official members of the Rolling Stones—frontman Mick Jagger, guitarist Keith Richards, and multi-instrumentalist Ronnie Wood—perform a new song ...

Growing up near a similarly music-rich city which relies so much on the innovations of its varied immigrant population (albeit an ocean away), much of my time as a student of popular music has been ...

I lost all hearing in my left ear and most of my right for an afternoon after a dry ice bomb made from a plastic 7UP bottle exploded in my face in the summer of ’97. An explosion of consequence more ...

What is the best way to assess a new album by Madonna in the year 2026? With the exception of a bop or two, the pop iconoclast has been past her creative prime for some time now. Her last few ...