Art can outlast the artist — but what about their artistic impulses? A new art installation project in Australia, titled “Revivification,” raises this question with a very literal interpretation of ...

Senior research and teaching fellow, Department of Geography, University of Zurich Music has played a key role in the Oromo resistance movement. As is the case in many other societies – especially ...

In 1997, Buda Musique, a French record label, launched “Éthiopiques,” a multivolume CD series that collected songs from Ethiopia’s golden age of pop music—an era that began in the late sixties and ...

If you’ve been reading Paste this year, you know a lot of music came out in 2021. Hip-hop was no exception, and despite a pandemic, it was a blessing in disguise to the many musicians who had an ...

For many fans of music, the saying, "We are not in Kansas anymore," rings truer than ever before. While it is evident that the content of the audio version of the entertainment industry has changed, ...

Physical media showed strong signs of life last year. The 2021 RIAA Music Industry Data confirms that vinyl and CDs are going nowhere but up. Americans purchased how many new records in 2021? 40 ...

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Pop music has come a long way in the public eye, rising to become respected as a genre of music as worthy of analysis and criticism as any other (although Paste has always been of that belief). 2021 ...

News flash: we've had a lot more time to consume music during the pandemic. While many in-person concerts were canceled or postponed, our devices allowed us to stream our favorite tunes, dance in ...

On December 31, 2021, MBC kicked off their annual New Year’s Eve Music Festival! The 2021 MBC Music Festival is hosted by 2PM’s Lee Junho, Girls’ Generation’s YoonA, and Jang Sung Kyu. Performers ...

This year, many of the books we loved most used music as a lens through which to examine broader issues of politics, history, and identity — whether it was the story of capitalist circulation as heard ...