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 ...

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The Beatles were practically the biggest band in the world during their prime in the 1960s and in the decades that followed. By the time the band released their twelfth and final studio album, Let It ...

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In September of 1992, I bought my first two CDs. One was Check Your Head by the Beastie Boys, and the other was the Singles soundtrack. I was 14 years old. Yesterday, I bought six more CDs — mostly ...

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 ...