Paste is the place to kick off each and every New Music Friday. We follow our regular roundups of the best new songs by ...

Unless you live alone in the woods like a hermit, you’re surrounded by people every single day. And no matter how private ...

When we hear certain sounds, our brains often pair them with specific shapes. For example, most people will associate a sharp ...

In The Bluest Eye, Morrison struggled to unite the there and not-there in the same figure: Claudia had occupied the positive pole, as it were, and Pecola, the negative. Four novels later, in Beloved, ...

Getting rhythm, to paraphrase the late Johnny Cash, is not something we learn, but is "part of our biological toolkit." That's according to researchers who played Bach to dozens of babies who appeared ...