Lotus closed 2025 with a headlining show at Buffalo, NY’s Town Ballroom. Partway through their first set, the group debuted “Oblong Shapes,” the first single off the forthcoming LP, Rise of the ...

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Lil M.U.’s “Top of Cars” was one of Chicago’s biggest breakthrough songs of 2025. Built on a rolling juke beat and pitch-shifted car horns, the party-rap howler pulls you in from the jump. That’s what ...

Cameron Boozer, Darryn Peterson and AJ Dybantsa headline a loaded 2026 NBA Draft class, but there are many more names worth tanking for.

We’re back with another “worst of” list. On Monday, we picked the worst songs of the year. You’ll see some repeats here, but there are a few new entrants who made some woefully disappointing or ...

Every Thursday, the Paste staff and contributors will choose their five favorite songs of the week, awarding one entry a “Song of the Week” designation. Check out last week’s roundup here. Song of the ...

I, like the great singer-songwriter Judee Sill before me, have always been and always will be a cunt. It’s something I’ve always known about myself, and I frame this early realization as follows: at a ...

Our updated two-round NBA Mock Draft projections include an Indiana Pacers heist, a dangerous Oklahoma City Thunder addition, and much, much more.