Watch ‘Girl,’ a powerful short film that reveals both the extraordinary promise and the staggering risks faced by girls around the world. Sunday 3/15 at 3:15 p.m. at High Noon in Austin, TX, presented by CARE. Learn more about the film at care.org/girl and RSVP at paste.freshtix.com/events/paste26.

Inspired by a visit to India, Gorillaz ground their musings on the afterlife in warm, gorgeous instrumentation with a clear, cohesive thematic anchor, but the style ultimately overwhelms the substance.

The genre-defining EP marked the first collaboration between Charli XCX and the late SOPHIE, cementing their idiosyncratic, futuristic vision of what pop could be.

On his new record, My Days of 58, the cult songwriter fights passivity with effort, tenderness, and a newfound suspicion of his own myths. Read more from our interview with Ball Callahan:

As one of the most consistently compelling musicians of his era, Sam Beam continues a streak of good albums that’s decidedly yet to meet its end. Our review of Iron & Wine's Hen’s Teeth www.pastemagazine.com/music/iron-a...

Justice Tripp goes into the creative process, design choices, characters and creatures, and politics behind each of his Baltimore hardcore band’s album covers. www.pastemagazine.com/music/angel-...

In the DOJ’s email dump, Epstein’s would‑be partners pitch the crumbling record giant as a “troubled industry” but a “great asset to have for P,” revealing how they saw the music business as a pipeline to women.

In the 1980s, Beggar Weeds were Jacksonville punks sleeping under trucks, opening for X, recording with Michael Stipe, and skinny-dipping with David Berman. In a new, career-defining reissue, they’re the long-missing link between R.E.M. and Uncle Tupelo.

The alt-country legend sat down with Paste to discuss bringing courage to her vocation, what it takes to write political music that lives up to her hero Bob Dylan’s, and her most recent album, World’s Gone Wrong.

Princ€ss’ Finn Carraher McDonald’s first album in five years wears a half-dozen eras in a near-perfect exhibition of lithe pop echo

Ambitious in concept but safe in execution. Still, some beautiful moments offer a glimpse at an alluring, torturous vision of love.

While the newly released files do not appear to show that he was an active participant in Epstein's inner circle, Paste’s comprehensive timeline of Richard Branson’s presence in the documents makes the Virgin Group CEO's claims of ignorance hard to believe. www.pastemagazine.com/music/epstei...

New at @pastemagazine.bsky.social, I talked to @therealelvira.bsky.social herself, Cassandra Peterson (!!!), about ELVIRA'S COOKBOOK FROM HELL and achieving her dream of becoming the "Martha Stewart of the Macabre." www.pastemagazine.com/books/cookbo...

Though everyone will likely want to talk about Liam Hemsworth joining #TheWitcher this season, it's the series's women who are the major reason to tune in. (All hail Anya Chalotra.) My review at @pastemagazine.bsky.social:

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere has its moments, but you might be better off with biographies or a 33 1/3 book.

Since 1942, U.S. Presidents have famously hosted film screenings in the plush White House theater, which Donald Trump just destroyed.

AMC’s new Anne Rice series #Talamasca: doesn’t reach the campy, melodramatic heights of Interview with the Vampire — what does, really?? — but it’s got a fun spy thriller premise and William Fichtner is reason enough to watch on his own. My review at @pastemagazine.bsky.social:

Paste sat down with the former Rolling Stone writer and Almost Famous filmmaker Cameron Crowe for a long talk about... everything.

Our #ICYMI column highlights Australian series #TheNewsreader, which may have started out as a strict drama, but has evolved into a fascinating queer character study:

Arriving six years after audiences last ventured down into the town’s sewers, Welcome to Derry is a flat and perplexing journey.

For all of its bold melodies and modern production, Power Windows is still a Rush album: complicated, unpredictable, and lovably nerdy.

I am revisiting cinema's best, most noteworthy, or just ridiculous fight scenes in my Fight Night feature at @pastemagazine.bsky.social, and usually the pain is on the screen. But this month I watched Freddy vs. Jason, and it un-graduated me from high school. www.pastemagazine.com/movies/fredd...

Despite trailers marketing the film as a raucous, bloody affair, Bugonia might actually be Yorgos Lanthimos’s most digestible film to date.

The best fantasy books of October include the final installment of Philip Pullman's Book of Dust trilogy, Stephanie Garber's adult fantasy debut, and lots more.

#TheDiplomat's third season remains as bonkers as ever when it comes to political intrigue, but too often privileges narrative twists over emotional depth.

Watch an exclusive clip from the series premiere of Talamasca: The Secret Order, AMC's lastest installment in their Anne Rice universe:

So excited to see #TheLibraryofLostGirls in this list from the incredible Paste magazine! @pastemagazine.bsky.social The Best New YA Books of October 2025  www.pastemagazine.com/books/young-...

IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT is making its way to screens stateside (and just played LFF in the the UK), and I reviewed the film for @pastemagazine.bsky.social. A wry and moving film from Jafar Panahi, perhaps more about how life rolls on than actual revenge www.pastemagazine.com/movies/it-wa...

Between its Y2K aesthetic and buttery smooth bunny hop-adjacent movement, Don't Stop, Girlypop! seems like one to look out for. www.endlessmode.com/article/dont...

Animation is everywhere this October, and we've got a full rundown of what you can watch from Solar Opposites to Hazbin Hotel.

Given Max Martin’s track record with Taylor Swift, her 12th album rings a tad disappointing. Even so, it delivers on the promise of a punchier pop album and justifies its existence with crisp production and unexpected melodies—if you can stomach the lyrics. www.pastemagazine.com/music/taylor...

Upgrading from two days to three, this year's All Things Go Festival went big and bold in 2025, bringing in some of the best young talent to Forest Hills Stadium.

From Boston Blue to The Last Frontier, here are five underrated new TV shows that we're excited to see in October.

In Noah Baumbach latest, George Clooney plays Jay Kelly, an actor looking back. Is it the character or movie who feels incomplete?

Daniel Day-Lewis and his son Ronan bring plenty of artistic integrity to Anemone, but there's some self-indulgence here, too.

Matthew Lewis and Amanda Redman are great together in Acorn TV's newest cozy crime drama #MurderBeforeEvensong, a mystery series where the murder is the least interesting part of the story. My review at @pastemagazine.bsky.social:

100% worth watching.

I wonder if people like Anderson and Leo and Taylor and del Toro and Hall all wake up in the morning consciously devoted to outdoing themselves, or if I just have recency bias? Each hits a new height in ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, is why I'm asking. My review, for @pastemagazine.bsky.social:

Apparently, we’re all putting our lives in the hands of one particular rock and roll band, and the Oasis reunion is proof that a little bit of love, forgiveness, and rock and roll can still fix the world.

From new releases from big-name authors to buzzy debuts and long-awaited sequels, Fall 2025 is full of exciting new titles for YA readers.

Both revolution and fatherhood present Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another with crackling tension.

Across its all-too-brief two seasons, Marvel's #AgentCarter subscribed to a consistently winning genre formula.

On 'Neon Grey Midnight Green,' Neko Case insists that grief sharpens rather than clouds reality, and that connection—human and animal alike—is the antidote to dread.

Toni Collette wants you to join her cult in the twisty, entertaining, and somewhat uneven new Netflix thriller #Wayward.

Lovely, longform conversation about Death at the White Hart with @lacymb.bsky.social for @pastemagazine.bsky.social and matters arising https://www.pastemagazine.com/books/chris-chibnall/death-at-the-white-hart-interview

The Chicago Tribune and the Sun-Times have offered their film critics buyouts and killed their positions. These are the papers that gave us Siskel & Ebert. To reflect on that, I interviewed Chicago film critics old and new for @pastemagazine.bsky.social. www.pastemagazine.com/movies/film-...

Never ever going to get tired of writing about the Oasis reunion, which is maybe the only categorically good thing we can say that 2025 has given us --- and a timely reminder that love, forgiveness, and rock and roll can maybe still fix the world. @pastemagazine.bsky.social

Clocking in at over a thousand pages and full of dark, disturbing imagery, Alchemised is a fantasy that's not for the faint of heart.

The rule-breaking, foul-mouthed Die Spitz aren’t simply one of the best live acts in Austin, they’re a bad-bitch band making music that yells in all-caps.

This week at Endless Mode, we're exploring video game maps, and @thewillarowe.bsky.social kicks us off with a piece about 1000XResist's intentionally crummy map of the Orchard. While it may not be particularly useful for directions, it works as an extension of this setting and those who live there.