Every Thursday, the Paste staff and contributors will choose their five favorite songs of the week, awarding one entry a “Song of the Week” designation. Check out last week’s roundup here. Pop ...

Set against Nomad War Machine’s apocalyptic, detuned intensity, the steady currents of Alcorn’s playing have a tectonic power, like rivers of lava scouring the landscape to remake the terrain beneath ...

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

Ora Cogan makes songs the way diviners cast charms. Her music moves on instinct but carries the deliberation of ritual, each gesture placed where feeling cuts closest to the bone.

Exploring the mechanics of the song which was taken to mega-success by Stevie Wonder - much to Jeff Beck's frustration ...

Every once in a while, a single instrument arrives and rewrites the rules. Not just for music, but for culture itself. Think about it. A strip of brass and a few keys gave birth to jazz. A solid block ...

He precisely controlled modulation and feedback loops ...

Seals versus pedal-steels, a DIY symphony of garage rock & Super Nintendo synths? It must be Daryl Worthington with the best ...

Exploring the mechanics of the song which was taken to mega-success by Stevie Wonder - much to Jeff Beck's frustration ...

From the smooth gold of Laurel Canyon to the polished perfection of AOR, here are the 21 definitive soft rock masterpieces ...

Getting so obsessed with a band that you book a local show just to see them play—we need more freaks like that in the world, and that’s what Merge Records’ Mike Krol did this spring when he put ...

It’s not every Tuesday that you get to see a one-man blues band and a captivating soul performance from a few feet away in ...