Matt Mitchell is Paste‘s editor, reporting from their home in Los Angeles.

The Oxford English Dictionary has added several Nigerian-origin words in its latest update, reflecting the growing global ...

"10 yrs ago today, David Bowie released his final album 'Blackstar.' A masterful record dealing with death, mortality, and ...

Cohen spent roughly a year and a half as a hostage of Hamas following the Oct. 7, 2023, attack in southern Israel that ...

New year, new list of obnoxious slang terms proliferating society — from mind-numbing rap song catch phrases to good words ...

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Ana Gonzalez and cellist Yo-Yo Ma about their new podcast Our Common Nature from WNYC, which connects music with nature and place.

In the days before streaming video and easy-to-find information online, anime news in the West came from magazines like ...

The town of Glastonbury is one of the world's great spiritual sites—and the mythic burial spot of the Holy Grail.

Robert Burns wrote down the lyrics to "Auld Lang Syne," and in the almost 250 years since, it's been cemented as the anthem ...

In Vietnam, the appreciation for ABBA has been going strong since the late 1970s. Much like the Beatles in America, the ABBA ...

Lola Lafon’s book “When You Listen to This Song” is a hit in its native France. Now in English, it explores identity, loss ...

Branford Marsalis, Joshua White and Patricia Brennan are just some of the artists who released head-turning albums this year.