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 ...

Of all the film festivals to fill the theaters throughout the year in Chicago, the Chicago International Film Festival offers the broadest scope and the biggest selection of films from names familiar ...

This is always a difficult list to compile because the word “experimental” so often means music that is difficult to categorize. Or difficult to describe. Or just difficult. But these are some of our ...

This marks the 20th time Paste has released a Best Albums of the Year list, and as always, it’s an opportunity for discovery. It’s a time to learn what albums we might have overlooked as our music ...

For cinephiles of a certain age, it is impossible to conceive of a world without a summer movie season. Kicking off on the first weekend of May (or, occasionally, the last weekend of April) and ...

Whether recorded remotely, live, or in-studio, the jazz and experimental music that left the biggest impression this year did so primarily because it challenged us to find momentum in life. In jazz, ...

If there's been one consistent in popular music across the first 20-plus years of the 21st century, it's been the prominence of the producer at the forefront. By Billboard Staff If there’s been one ...

The streaming service’s algorithm remains a mystery. Our critics sort the wheat from the chaff on their UK site so you don’t have to ...