Before he starred as Gruber’s accomplice Karl Vreski in Die Hard, Alexander Godunov was a ballet dancer who defected from the ...

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Tis the season for being jolly and holly and all that good shit, and while you may not yet be in the holiday spirit, I’ll tell you some people who definitely are—Stryper. You may not have guessed how ...

Ryan is a lifestyle and culture journalist born and raised in the Philippines. He primarily covers film, television, music, and all things pop culture. Beyond writing, you can find him buried in ...

Dallas singer Paul Schalda hopscotches through soulful styles on his new album Lately – but always circles back to early-’60s vocal pop, a sound that’s in his DNA. Growing up on Staten Island, Schalda ...

Compiled by Paul McCartney and edited by Ted Widmer, “Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run” is a must-read for fans of The Beatles in general and their solo careers in specific. And the story of ...

1984 was a banner year for music in the eighties, and 1985 somehow topped it. Of course, the midway point of the decade didn’t have a Like a Virgin or Purple Rain, but it didn’t need titles like those ...

An untold number of albums have been released since the long-playing record came into being amid the technological and cultural explosion of the 1950s. In my 30 years as a music journalist, I have ...

Adrian Borromeo, UCR / Warner Bros. Rather than blending American forms with the upbeat mbaqanga ("township jive") of South Africa, he built his new material over separate drum tracks recorded in ...

Taylor Swift hit a historic 4 million in sales in one week with the debut of her 12th studio album, “The Life of a Showgirl.” This marks the singer’s 15th No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 albums chart ...

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 ...

St. Paul and The Broken Bones' sixth studio album releases Oct. 10. Studio One's Mark Simmet previewed the album, and says it's well worth listening to. For me, the new self-titled album from St. Paul ...