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 How did they do that? June 29, 2006
Lisa McKinley (Citrus Capital of the World, CA USA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
PASTE magazine was made just for me! I don't even know how it came to be...I had started to receive the now-defunct TRACKS magazine (unsolicited - - probably a last-ditch effort to build a subscriber base) and when they finally went under, I was credited with two issues of PASTE. WOW! This magazine is utterly awesome! Besides the cd (or dvd - - or sometimes both!), the music, the films, the cultural issues are all enlightening and well-written. It is obviously a labor of love for all those involved in its creation. It is literally chock-full of interesting stuff, particularly not-necessarily-mainstream stuff. In all honesty, I find the advertisements particularly helpful in turning me on to new great artists, which I probably would not have heard of otherwise. I also appreciate the thicker-than-average cover, since I tend to carry it around with me for a while, to devour it by bits and pieces in every spare moment. Each issue ends up plastered with sticky-note reminders to check out or follow-up on something or other, and I've even resorted to folding over pages of interesting articles for later reference. The magazine holds up very well to my attentive abuse. So, if you are ready to escape the pablum that the entertainment industry has been spoon-feeding you for so very long, be sure to check out PASTE. Support real artists, you won't be disappointed.
Finally!!! A Music Magazine Worth Subscribing To July 26, 2006
Andre Reynolds (Nashville, TN USA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
When it comes to music, culture, and overall coverage of meaningful entertainment, Paste is where it's at. Fairly a new publication (starting in July of 2002), the magazine has soared in popularity and holds its own in a marketplace saturated with bland and repetitive articles.
If you're sick of reading magazines that only focus on mainstream trends, surface culture, and the next teenage sensation, then this is your magazine. The publication focuses on a wide array of music, but emphasizes the folk, indie-rock, and alternative genres. In its pages you'll find very useful album reviews, articles on an array of films (especially indie ones, which are hard to come by these days), as well as book suggestions. But by far the best part of the magazine is that every issue includes a Sampler CD, which can include anything from short films, new music, and/or documentaries.
Paste prides itself on catering to its consumer and is the perfect reading material for anyone who still enjoys stumbling onto new music, learning and growing in their song crafting, and keeping up with good quality... not quantity. The magazine blatantly states that it looks for "signs of life in music, film, & culture..." and if you find yourself looking for the same, then you'll definitely find satisfaction with Paste magazine. Never a bland issue. Never gets old. Always interesting.
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!
WARNING - only subscribe if you have lots of time and cash! February 29, 2004
J. Villeneuve (Newtown, CT USA)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
If you like a little more depth (sometimes) in your music than what's on (most) radio, then Paste in the place for you. The CD sampler that comes with each issue will send you off scouring independent label sites and Amazon (although they frequently aren't here) trying to find out more about the artists. With the variety in each set, you are bound to like a few of the songs and they can very quickly point you to other songs and artists (gotta love the internet!). So, it's been a time consuming habit since I subscribed (and ordered all the back issues available) and a little expensive (5 CDs so far), but well worth it to hear new, different and fresh music from artists that are doing what they love.
Americana at it's best! July 31, 2005
Ronald J. Cori (Centreville, VA United States)
6 out of 16 found this review helpful
Great Magazine with CD and DVD. I look forward to receiving it each month.
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