Kate Willett (Kate Willett) expounds on her worldview in her new special Loopholes—not from a place of holier-than-thou righteousness, but a world-weary knowingness. Read Clare Martin's review:

pastemagazine.com/comedy/kate-wi…

No one is illegal! No Detentions No Prisons No Borders!

I bet having a nap inside a giant, warm bao bun would solve all my problems

Nice shout-out for NO ENCORE in the Irish Times today - cheers 🥃Donald Clarke📽️

Podcast episode here: open.spotify.com/episode/6XXSqo…

And read Donald's very good piece here: irishtimes.com/culture/music/…

New Lemon Belles on Dublin Digital Radio today at 10am PST / 1pm EST / 6pm Irish time 🍋 Tune in for some Beach House, postlastmusic, Francis of Delirium + more 💛

listen.dublindigitalradio.com/home

Comedy troubadour JR De Guzman talks with Christine N. Ziemba about Filipinos and freestyling ahead of his Netflix Is A Joke show:

pastemagazine.com/comedy/jr-de-g…

Elaine Mai, MayKay, and Faye O’Rourke have collaborated on a new charity single ‘We Are’ alongside young people who live in Aida Refugee Camp in the Occupied West Bank of Palestine 🇵🇸

All proceeds will benefit the Lajee Center in Aida Camp:

elainemai.bandcamp.com/track/we-are

It's April 25th, the perfect date, so join No Shauna, Only Zuul in reflecting on Miss Congeniality and 2000s feminism:

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If you cover music and aren’t into an artist a publicist is pitching, please let us know! Thats super helpful and appreciated, actually

The spirit is willing but the body is a bitch

Three hundred bodies exhumed from a mass grave *in a fucking hospital* including the bodies of medics *still in scrubs and wearing handcuffs* and the loudmouths are sucking up all the energy arguing over whether students and other people are protesting the correct way

Comedian, writer, and all-around multi-hyphenate Lane Moore (Lane Moore "You Will Find Your People"📚) wants you to know you will find your people. Clare Martin spoke with Moore about iconic best friend duos, capitalism, and her self-help book:

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Okay WHY does ‘Cell Block Tango’ end on Lipschitz and not Cicero - Velma is a main character! It makes more sense for her to finish out the song

Paste Magazine ran a negative Taylor Swift review, withholding the byline to protect the writer.

For the NO ENCORE podcast, I spoke with Paste Music Editor Matt Mitchell - matt - about this decision, and the state of modern music criticism:

🎧open.spotify.com/episode/6XXSqo…

palestine will be free 🇵🇸

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i was the paste social editor at the time and can absolutely confirm the threats of violence. to a female journalist none the less!

You seem like a person who’s never worked in customer service (derogatory)

Being awake is cool in theory

**New episode of the TPOE podcast**

TPOE 305: HAVVK talk through all the tracks on their brilliant third album To Fall Asleep

Listen/subscribe: tr.ee/oKM9GKXH_f

Buy the album: havvk.bandcamp.com/album/to-fall-…