Paste (magazine)

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Paste
Issue 19 of Paste magazine (December 2005/January 2006), featuring Fiona Apple.
Editor	Josh Jackson
Categories	Music magazines
Frequency	monthly
Publisher	Paste Media Group
First Issue	July 2002
Country	United States
Language	English
Website	pastemagazine.com
ISSN	1540-3106

Paste is a monthly music and entertainment magazine published in the United States by Paste Media Group LLC. Its tagline is "Signs of Life in Music, Film and Culture."

The magazine, headquartered in Decatur, Georgia, was founded as a quarterly in July 2002 by Josh Jackson, Nick Purdy, and Tim Porter. It switched to a bimonthly format amid increased popularity and the addition of Joe Kirk to the managing team, and continued to grow in 2005 when Paste fulfilled remaining subscriptions for competing magazine Tracks, which had ceased publication of its print edition. Paste went monthly with its August 2006 issue.

Paste's focus is music, covering a variety of genres with an emphasis on adult album alternative, Americana and indie rock. "Film" was added to its tagline with the December/January 2004 issue, which featured a cover story on filmmaker Wes Anderson.

In 2005, Paste was listed at #21 on The Chicago Tribune's list of "50 Best Magazines." Paste was also named Magazine of the Year by the PLUG Independent Music Awards in both 2006 and 2007.

The June/July issue of Paste featured The 100 Best Living Songwriters, with #1 Bob Dylan on the cover. With the following issue in August 2006, Paste increased frequency to monthly with a cover story on Radiohead's Thom Yorke.

Each issue of the magazine includes a CD music sampler or a DVD containing short films, movie and game trailers and music videos; some issues include both. Artists who have appeared on the "Paste" sampler CD and DVD include Coldplay, Aimee Mann, Blackalicious, Arcade Fire, Paul McCartney, Norah Jones, R.E.M., Elvis Costello, Death Cab for Cutie, Van Morrison, Arcade Fire, Fiona Apple, The Ramones, The Decemberists, Mark Heard, Johnny Cash, Woven Hand, and The Postal Service.

[edit] Other media

The staff of Paste also produces the following:

Paste Picks, a CNN Headline News segment hosted by Jackson and Purdy each Tuesday that showcases three albums released that week.
Paste Magazine Culture Club, a weekly podcast.
Paste Radio, an Internet radio stream.
Paste Recommends, a listening station program for independent music stores in the U.S.
Paste Rock' n 'Reel Festival, an independent music and film festival.