|
Paste | 
| Publisher: Paste Media Group Llc
List Price: $63.60 Buy New: $19.95 You Save: $43.65 (69%)
Rating: 34 reviews Sales Rank: 254
Format: Magazine Subscription Type: Trade magazine Subscription Issues: 11 Subscription Length: 12 Months Issues Per Year: 11 First Issue Lead Time: 6-10 Weeks
ASIN: B0000A8YVE
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping Availability: Usually ships in 1 to 3 months
| |
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description Published primarily for music fans ages in their 20s, 30s and 40s, Paste aims to be the "the premier magazine for people who still enjoy discovering new music, prize substance and songcraft over fads and manufactured attitude, and appreciate quality music in whatever genre it might inhabit."
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 29 more reviews...
Great new music May 26, 2008 Jason L. Winchester (Lexington, KY USA) Starting picking up Paste Mag while in Iraq and have really discovered some new and fresh music to listen too. Every issue comes with a sampler CD with 20 or so songs on it of new music. If you are looking for new music of every genre....try checking out a copy.
Unadventurous and stagnant April 3, 2008 Bruce Tennant (Takoma Park, Maryland USA) Paste is aimed towards post-college adults whose musical tastes veer left of center. Unfortunately, they miss the mark badly. Readers are offered an unchallenging menu of staid triple-AAA and commercial-ready indie. The sampler CDs are heavy on mid-tempo ballads and are eminently boring. Admittedly, I have been spoiled by several years of The Wire and its series of sampler CDs that rarely fail to dazzle the ears. While I didn't expect Paste to be as adventurous as The Wire, I also didn't expect it to be as wan and passive as it is.
Don't waste your time & money November 30, 2007 Cassidy 85 (Seattle,Wa USA) 2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have subscribed to Paste since 07/05. They used to include a CD of all new artists featured that month. I think they got bought out by a mainstream company cuz now if you are a current subscriber you can only get the CD if you pay an additional $10 for the remainder of your subscription. I used to love the true "indie" aspects of this monthly rag. Not only music but BOOKS & movies. Now those features are scaled way down. Now they are leaning more mainstream(if I wanted Spin of god forbid Rolling Stone I would of gotten it) & want you to pay an extra $10 for a CD that cost pennies to make. I will NOT be renewing my subscription! Also whats up with no cancellation/no refund policy? I always thought if you stand behind your product & reputation the consumer is ALWAYS right? Bottom line Paste USED TO BE A GREAT RAG if you want a truly insightful & non mainstream publication go for MOJO or FILTER.
Great idea, poor execution November 11, 2007 truthiness 0 out of 1 found this review helpful
When I first heard of Paste Magazine, I thought "What a great idea!" Of course there should be a music/culture magazine for adults - and including a sampler CD was a fantastic innovation. But then I read Paste and realized that, as others have noted, the writing isn't very interesting. Articles that should grab and hold my attention just...don't. It's not that the articles are bad (one exception: the profile of Christopher Guest was quite possibly the most self-serving and poorly written piece of entertainment journalism I've ever read), it's that they all seem kind of the same. It's just one blandly written profile/review after another. Honestly, I enjoy reading Entertainment Weekly more. For a well-written music magazine for adults, check out Q Magazine (UK). They cover a wide range of music (so you'll undoubtedly have to sift through it), but it's fun to read and they also include samplers with some issues. The only drawback is that it costs $150/year to get it in the US, so I've had to limit it to being an occasional treat.
Get It for the CD Sampler Alone February 1, 2007 Adventure Boy (Los Angeles) 7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Paste is probably the best music magazine available today for people looking for excellent new music that they might not have heard yet on the radio. But I would buy it for the CD sampler alone, which typically gives you 20 songs from artists the magazine loves. And since the reason the artists let Paste use their songs is to entice you to buy their full album, you get their very best songs. Also, you will see that several reviewers have given Paste only a single star because they have not yet received their first issue, which has given it an artificially low rating. Get a clue! The listing says that the first issue will arrive in "six to ten weeks," so don't complain that it's been "a couple of months" and still haven't received it!
|
|
|
We'll be adding even more exciting features to assist you in the coming year.
Thank you for shopping at the Depot.com online shopping depot.
©2008 Depot.com | |