Josh Jackson
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President, Paste Media PasteMagazine.com | AVClub.com | Jezebel.com | Splinter.com | EndlessMode.com
Six years ago some friends invited me to their monthly Album Club. I wrote about it here:
www.pastemagazine.com/music/vinyl/...
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Why everyone should join an album club
Getting up before a group of friends and talking about an album you love feels surprisingly personal, but you should do it anyway.
https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/vinyl/album-club
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I put together The A.V. Club's best anime of 2025 list; this year was rounded out by moving historical epics, queer body horror, and plenty of wonderful weirdos. Also, if you've been hoping for general pop culture sites to pay more attention to anime, AVC will do so going forward, spread the word!
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The A.V. Club's 10 best anime of 2025
2025 delivered a wide range of worthwhile anime for both newcomers and anime veterans alike. After plumbing the depths, here are the 10 best.
https://www.avclub.com/best-anime-2025
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We finally watched 'em all! Here is The A.V. Club's best 25 films of the year, unassailable and fully correct as always:
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The A.V. Club's 25 best films of 2025
The best films of 2025 are a last angry hurrah from a film industry consolidating and capitulating at a frightening pace.
https://www.avclub.com/best-films-2025
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The A.V. Club Games
3 months ago
Okay, yeah: Endless Mode is now The A.V. Club Games. We speedran this thing. Same editors, same writers, same content, just a different but familiar site.
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The A.V. Club Games announces a new era
The A.V. Club's games section gets a major boost as Paste's and Endless Mode's games coverage joins the site.
https://www.avclub.com/new-games-section-endless-mode-paste-games
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It's not that impressive that a band named themselves Gas Station Boner Pills, but it is impressive that their press release made it past my spam filter.
3 months ago
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Jacob Weindling
7 months ago
Wrote about the new Gallup poll showing record high support for immigration. It's almost like Democratic popularists don't have a fucking clue what they're talking about!
www.splinter.com/new-poll-sho...
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New Poll Shows Record-High Support for Immigration
Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.
https://www.splinter.com/new-poll-shows-record-high-support-for-immigration
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The Outer Wilds, Nine Sols, And Embracing The End
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The Outer Wilds, Nine Sols, And Embracing The End - Endless Mode
Nine Sols and The Outer Wilds are two very different games, tonally and mechanically, but both beautifully explore accepting the end.
https://www.endlessmode.com/video-games/nine-sols/the-outer-wilds-nine-sols-embracing-the-end-explained
7 months ago
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Jim Vorel
7 months ago
Spinal Tap: The band we need right now, again -- On the eve of another momentous performance, we reflect on the legacy of these rock heroes.
#SpinalTap
#ThisIsSpinalTap
#SpinalTap2
www.pastemagazine.com/article/spin...
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Spinal Tap: The Band We Need Right Now, Again
On the eve of another historic reunion, we reflect on the undeniable rock greatness of the immortal Spinal Tap.
https://www.pastemagazine.com/article/spinal-tap-legacy-documentary-rerelease-anniversary-41-parody-heavy-metal-music
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One of the things, I'm most excited about for āŖ@endlessmode.bsky.social is the expanded anime coverage from
@elijahgonzalez.bsky.social
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www.endlessmode.com/anime/anime/...
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The 10 Best Anime Series of 2025, So Far
2025 has already given us plenty of excellent anime, and we're counting down the ten best so far, from popular sequels to hidden gems.
https://www.endlessmode.com/anime/anime/best-anime-2025-so-far
7 months ago
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Moises Taveras
7 months ago
For my first piece at Endless Mode, I tried to make sense of the everything while playing Mario Kart World. Fortunately, I've had the cow.
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The A.V. Club Games
7 months ago
Welcome to Endless Mode: infinite possibilities in games, anime, theme parks, and more.
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Endless Mode: It's the New Thing
Welcome to Endless Mode: infinite possibilities in games, anime, theme parks, and a whole lot more--like, uh, pinball.
https://www.endlessmode.com/video-games/hi/endless-mode-its-the-new-thing
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Endless Mode launch day is here! A new home for great writing about games, anime and more -
www.endlessmode.com/video-games/...
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Endless Mode: It's the New Thing
Welcome to Endless Mode: infinite possibilities in games, anime, theme parks, and a whole lot more--like, uh, pinball.
https://www.endlessmode.com/video-games/hi/endless-mode-its-the-new-thing
7 months ago
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I don't want to freak out Fox News, but there was an Irish invasion at our Lake Michigan border last March.
8 months ago
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Jim Vorel
8 months ago
An ode to the lowliest (deepest?) horror subgenre: Shark movies. From Shark Exorcist to House Shark, Sharks of the Corn, and beyond.
#horrormovies
#sharks
#sharkweek
www.pastemagazine.com/article/shar...
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An Ode to the Lowliest (Deepest?) Horror Subgenre: Shark Movies
It's always Shark Week when it comes to horror movies. We look at the wonderful, wet, toothy world of shark movies.
https://www.pastemagazine.com/article/shark-movies-best-worst-new-shark-films
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Will Harris
8 months ago
Aināt that somethinā? I wonder what changed between then and nowā¦
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Sufjan Stevens opens up about his two (IMO) masterpieces, Illinois and Carry & Lowell, in this cover story from
@yogurttowne.bsky.social
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www.pastemagazine.com/music/sufjan...
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COVER STORY | Sufjan Stevens Communicates With Ghosts
Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.
https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/sufjan-stevens/sufjan-stevens-communicating-with-ghosts
8 months ago
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You still have time to read the books. They're short! And outstanding!
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10 months ago
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derek guy
10 months ago
a lot of people think you need a lot of money to buy clothes. now you're right. ok. my bad.
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We just surpassed 500 million views on YouTube on the Paste Channel. So many amazing sessions here:
www.youtube.com/pastemagazine
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Paste Magazine
Find tens of thousands of live performance videos at PasteMagazine.comāa leading online destination for pop-culture enthusiasts covering music, movies, TV, books, video games, beer, comics and just ab...
https://www.youtube.com/pastemagazine
10 months ago
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Garrett Martin
10 months ago
went to New York for 20 hours to write this thing
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The Economist
10 months ago
Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he saidāon history, economics and the technicalities of tradeāwas utterly deluded
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This is a fascist administration.
www.splinter.com/masked-thugs...
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Masked Thugs Kidnap Another Student Off the Street
Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.
https://www.splinter.com/masked-thugs-kidnap-another-student-off-the-street
11 months ago
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They Might Be Giants
11 months ago
Career-spanning interview in the AV Club just posted.
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They Might Be Giants' record label wanted them to start a dance craze
They Might Be Giants' record label wanted them to start a dance craze
https://www.avclub.com/they-might-be-giants-interview-set-list-part-1-dont-lets-start
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Jacob Oller
11 months ago
Sickening, evil, totally in line with everything in No Other Land. The final footage sees a settler shoot co-director Basel Adra's cousin point-blank in the stomach with a rifle. An Oscar can't stop hate crimes
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Everybody should be watching this show. Funny, thrilling, character-driven, and depressingly timely.
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Adult Swim's Common Side Effects Defiantly Critiques the Medical-Industrial Complex
Common Side Effects is a smart, proud, brazen critique of America's insane pharmaceutical, insurance, and medical complex.
https://www.pastemagazine.com/tv/common-side-effects/adult-swims-common-side-effects-defiantly-critiques-the-medical-industrial-complex
11 months ago
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When I saw MJ Lenderman in Atlanta, I was shocked to hear him cover This Is Lorelei's "Dancing in the Club." Those two very different artists released two of my top three albums of 2024, and it felt like he was in my brain. Now the rest of the world gets to enjoy it:
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This Is Lorelei - Dancing in the Club (MJ Lenderman Version)
YouTube video by Double Double Whammy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1on3V-W3w_I
11 months ago
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It's been encouraging to watch Splinter's traffic grow significantly each of the last four months as our writers try to actually push back against tyranny and corruption, but ad revenue per visit is about half of our entertainment sites.
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Five Reasons to Subscribe to Splinter, A Good Website
Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.
https://www.splinter.com/five-reasons-to-subscribe-to-splinter-a-good-website
11 months ago
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Paste Magazine
11 months ago
Jordana played two songs for our Paste Session at Second Take Studio in New York, including one from her new album, 'Lively Premonition.'
www.pastemagazine.com/music/jordan...
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Watch Jordana's Paste Session in New York
Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.
https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/jordana/jordana-paste-session
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imtiredthatisall
12 months ago
the accuracy
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Elon Musk: Free speech absolutely-notist.
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12 months ago
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL
12 months ago
I will vote for the first candidate who tells me they're going to make the biggest government possible. Reacher-sized agencies. Braun Strowman-level social benefits. Government so big it starts belching out National Parks and free healthcare. Chungus State.
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Susan Rinkunas
12 months ago
quite the sales pitch to subscribe: "If the government shuts Jezebel down, or the internet gets banned, or it becomes illegal for women to write or laugh online, weāll buy some fucking horses and ride from state to state to scream the news Paul Revere style and throw abortion pills at your house"
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Unprecedented Times Got You Down?
Subscribe to Jezebel to both ease your brain and fan your rage.
https://www.jezebel.com/unprecedented-times-got-you-down
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Ok, Lady Gaga doing Dick in a Box is pretty amazing.
#snl50
12 months ago
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Dave Levitan
12 months ago
The latest on what I've heard from inside multiple agencies as the probationary firings come down:
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The Probationary Federal Employee Purge is Trying to Break the Government
Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.
https://www.splinter.com/the-probationary-federal-employee-purge-is-trying-to-break-the-government
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Susan Rinkunas
12 months ago
NEW: Anti-abortion groups want to enforce a 150-year-old law to ban abortion pills, which would be deeply unpopular. Now they're trying to rebrand the Comstock Act as an anti-drug trafficking statute, a move one expert compared to Nixon's manufactured War on Drugs. Me in
@jezebeldotcom.bsky.social
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Inside the āDiabolicalā Campaign to Ban Abortion Pills by Rebranding the Comstock Act
Conservative groups have launched a PR campaign to frame the Comstock Act of 1873 as an anti-drug trafficking law. One expert compared it to the Nixon administrationās manufactured War on Drugs.
https://www.jezebel.com/inside-the-diabolical-campaign-to-ban-abortion-pills-by-rebranding-the-comstock-act
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Danette Chavez
12 months ago
Culture sites have so much to offer beyond escapism. This Random Roles w/ Carl Lumbly is a deep dive into a great actor's career and (in my mind) a way to preserve parts of history this admin is so intent on erasing. Thanks for taking this on,
@willharrisinva.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/4pcrjc8y
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Carl Lumbly on his superhero roles, acting with a Beatle, and stepping into Scatman Crothersā shoes
Carl Lumbly recalls struggling with his Cagney & Lacey character and having the hands of a Black Lectroid for Buckaroo Banzai.
https://www.avclub.com/carl-lumbly-interview-random-roles-cagney-lacey-buckaroo-banzai-justice-league
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Nash
12 months ago
This is like Kendrick and Drake if both of them were Drake.
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No surprise that New Orleans is killing it with the music so far.
12 months ago
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Somebody needs to update Colin Jost on "sister publications," but still very cool to see
@avclub.com
as an answer on Pop Culture Jeopardy!
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Pop Nerd Websites | Category | POP CULTURE JEOPARDY!
YouTube video by Jeopardy!
https://youtu.be/wRr1E5NEl8M
about 1 year ago
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS
about 1 year ago
The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.
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James Poniewozik
about 1 year ago
Just by way of comparison, one banana costs five times that
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Jezebel
about 1 year ago
In 2023, six children under 12 were among at least 100 minors who had to leave Texas to have abortions.
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Texas' Abortion Ban Is Forcing Children Under 12 to Travel Out-of-State for Care
In 2023, six children under 12 were among at least 100 minors who had to leave Texas to have abortions.
https://www.jezebel.com/texas-abortion-ban-is-forcing-children-under-12-to-travel-out-of-state-for-care
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āGive me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.ā Those words now ring ironic. What Trump and ICEāand every person who enabled them with their voteāare doing is just cruel.
about 1 year ago
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MJ Lenderman covering This Is Loreleiās āDancing in the Clubā is the live music moment I didnāt know I needed.
about 1 year ago
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My early pick for album of the year: You Are the Morning by jasmine.4.t. I seem to have a new favorite song from this every day. "Guy Fawkes Tesco Dissociation." "Elephant." The title track. All so, so good.
www.pastemagazine.com/music/jasmin...
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jasmine.4.t: The Best of Whatās Next
Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.
https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/jasmine-4-t/jasmine-4-t-the-best-of-whats-next
about 1 year ago
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So honored to work with all these great people. Follow them here.
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about 1 year ago
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There are countless individual stories of devastation from the fires, like Griffin Goldsmith of Dawes losing his home weeks before his first kid is due. The music community has rallied to cover his needs, but there are so many more artists who need help.
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How to Support Members of the Music Community Impacted by the Los Angeles Fires
Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.
https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/mutual-aid/how-to-support-members-of-the-music-community-impacted-by-the-los-angeles-fires
about 1 year ago
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Finally entered my exponential phase of life
about 1 year ago
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Statement from President Carterās family this morning.
about 1 year ago
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Happy new year from the last bird I photographed in 2024, this curious Blue-headed Warbler.
about 1 year ago
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