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- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Sep 23, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Paste Magazine
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- Jul 12, 2026
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Wilco built “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart” to fall apart (opens the original)
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In celebration of its 25th anniversary, Paste will be publishing essays about Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Jeff Tweedy sure knows how to fuck up a pop song. That was Wilco’s M.O. in making Yankee Hotel Foxtrot—album number four, the opus that elevated them to bigger than Jesus, etc. status. “There’s no reason at all not to destroy it,” Tweedy said with a scruffy shrug in the I Am Trying to Break Your Heart documentary. “We made it so it’s ours to destroy and that’s liberating and exciting.” The
IAN SWEET, 'Shiverstruck' Review (opens the original)
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The downside to being an artist with the will, courage, and talent to progress with each record is that, when you don’t, it feels like more of a letdown than is perhaps fair. Many of us were introduced to Jilian Medford’s IAN SWEET project via 2016’s Shapeshifter, a record that sounded like Yeah Yeah Yeahs covering P.S. Eliot with the math rock dial variably turned up and down. Seemingly tracked to a melting tape recorder, it was texturally fascinating even despite the then-trio’s limited lo-fi
The history of the punk beat in 10 songs (opens the original)
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Do you remember the first time you heard the “punk beat”? Maybe it was via Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, or watching one of blink-182’s first singles on MTV. Before that? The pioneering early-years output of Dischord Records, say. Or maybe it was only recently, when Turnstile’s GLOW ON and Jeff Rosenstock’s HELLMODE flung the double-time beat into galloping conversation with arenas and the Pitchfork + The Needle Drop in-crowd. For Jono Diener—ex-drummer of Michigan band The Swellers, and a punk beat a
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