The Los Angeles quintet was born onstage, and that’s exactly how it records LPs: by capturing live performances and twisting them, sometimes beyond recognition.

The soundtrack featured classic reggae and ska cuts from Desmond Dekker, The Slickers, and The Maytals, paving the way for ...

Oram Award-winning electronic artist Helen Anahita Wilson tells us how she generated the music for her new album from ...

The Sting concert will be a part of the NFL's Super Bowl LX Studio 60 weekend, which On Location's site describes thusly: ...

Alexander Newman takes us inside the reissue of a book charting the London-based reggae and dancehall label that brought ...

Nearly 60 years ago, the original Star Trek series ignited a dream in the public’s imagination: that one day, people would travel the galaxy in ships propelled by faster-than-light “warp drives.” The ...

Turns out, ancient body art is a lot more common than we once thought—and it's providing historians with new ways of understanding our ancestors. Archaeologist Aaron Deter-Wolf, pictured in his office ...

Exactly three decades ago, in October 1995, Shakira unveiled her third studio album, the career-defining “Pies Descalzos.” ...

Nurse Rod Salaysay works with all kinds of instruments in the hospital: a thermometer, a stethoscope and sometimes his guitar and ukulele. Patients often smile or nod along. Salaysay even sees changes ...

Great artists who are the opposite of prolific are always a thorny subject. Many of our most romantic ideas about creativity tend to view “genius” as a kind of vessel state, from which beauty and ...

Ice comes in many phases (about twenty, to be exact), and scientists from the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) just discovered a new one called “Ice XXI.” To study this new ...

The first issue of Paste came out in July 2002. Since then, this site has catalogued the best and worst contemporary music the industry and the underground have had to offer. This week, we’re focusing ...