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1 month ago | 
pastemagazine.com | Matt Melis
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. “All these dying days / I walk the ghost town / Used to be my city.”The late Mark Lanegan sang the above words on “Dying Days,” the spiritual centerpiece of Screaming Trees’ 1996 swan song, Dust. On the song, a freshly sober Lanegan laments a string of tragic losses to the Seattle music scene, including his good friend Kurt Cobain, Hole bassist Kristen Pfaff and the Gits’ Mia Zapata.
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1 month ago | 
pastemagazine.com | Matt Melis
Grunge, however you define it, still dominated the perception of the Seattle music scene following the death of Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain in April 1994.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
pastemagazine.com | Matt Melis
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. If Pearl Jam parted ways tomorrow, no doubt a profound tidal wave of sadness and disbelief would wash over much of the music world. The veteran Seattle band have proven as durable as any over the past quarter century, making records on their own terms while endearing themselves to a devoted, communal fan base through marathon shows that routinely transcend into unique, celebratory experiences.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Matt Melis
1 hour agoEager to save on your favorite Apple products? Grab the best Black Friday deals on Apple Watches, MacBooks, iPads, AirPods, and more. There's no need to wait to buy gifts this holiday season. Black Friday is officially here, bringing incredible deals from Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, and more. It’s …
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Matt Melis
10 hours agoGoogle Maps doesn't want to give you just directions anymore. Google hopes the next time you're looking for a new restaurant or something to do, you'll find it with Google Maps. Powered by Gemini, Google's generative AI model, Google Maps is getting a recommendations engine that curates experiences …
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
pastemagazine.com | Matt Melis
There was always a lot more Alex Chilton than Johnny Rotten in Paul Westerberg. The closest the Replacements ever came to making a straight-ahead punk rock album was 1982’s Stink EP, an effort drummer Chris Mars admits left the band feeling confused about their identity.
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Sep 28, 2024 | 
pastemagazine.com | Matt Melis
There has been no shortage of narrative lenses through which to view filmmaker Quentin Tarantino’s more than three decades in Hollywood. We have the fairytale allure of a former video store clerk and movie nerd ascending to the highest echelon of contemporary filmmaking. He’s also been championed as an advocate for shooting movies on actual film, a resurrector of talents long forgotten by a fickle entertainment industry and one of the most influential filmmakers of his generation.
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Jul 20, 2024 | 
pastemagazine.com | Matt Melis
Every Saturday, Paste will be revisiting albums that came out before the magazine was founded in July 2002 and assessing its current cultural relevance. This week, we’re looking at XTC’s ninth studio album, which would help usher in a beloved, new era for a band on the brink of implosion or worse, total irrelevance. English Settlement should have settled the debate on XTC once and for all.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
pastemagazine.com | Matt Melis
Welcome to our Gateways column, where Paste writers and editors explore the taste-defining albums, artists, songs or shows that proved to be personal “gateways” into a broader genre, music scene or an artist’s catalog at-large—for better or worse. Explore them all here. It’s a few minutes before midnight on a Saturday. I’m standing at a middle urinal, heartbroken. To my left towers a man in stilettos, fishnet stockings and a black corset—topped off by an afro a mile in circumference.
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Jun 22, 2024 | 
pastemagazine.com | Matt Melis
By 1974, Bob Dylan and the Band had already carved out their own influential and ineradicable places in the history of modern rock and roll. Many of those hallowed chronicles found them alongside each other for what we now recognize as critical turning points for both the genre and popular culture.
