Josh Jackson

Why everyone should join an album club Getting up before a group of friends and talking about an album you love feels surprisingly personal, but you should do it anyway.

Six years ago some friends invited me to their monthly Album Club. I wrote about it here: www.pastemagazine.com/music/vinyl/...

The A.V. Club's 10 best anime of 2025 2025 delivered a wide range of worthwhile anime for both newcomers and anime veterans alike. After plumbing the depths, here are the 10 best.

I put together The A.V. Club's best anime of 2025 list; this year was rounded out by moving historical epics, queer body horror, and plenty of wonderful weirdos.

Also, if you've been hoping for general pop culture sites to pay more attention to anime, AVC will do so going forward, spread the word!

The A.V. Club's 25 best films of 2025 The best films of 2025 are a last angry hurrah from a film industry consolidating and capitulating at a frightening pace.

We finally watched 'em all! Here is The A.V. Club's best 25 films of the year, unassailable and fully correct as always: www.avclub.com/best-films-2...

The A.V. Club Games announces a new era The A.V. Club's games section gets a major boost as Paste's and Endless Mode's games coverage joins the site.

Okay, yeah: Endless Mode is now The A.V. Club Games. We speedran this thing. Same editors, same writers, same content, just a different but familiar site. www.avclub.com/new-games-se...

It's not that impressive that a band named themselves Gas Station Boner Pills, but it is impressive that their press release made it past my spam filter.

New Poll Shows Record-High Support for Immigration Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

Wrote about the new Gallup poll showing record high support for immigration. It's almost like Democratic popularists don't have a fucking clue what they're talking about! www.splinter.com/new-poll-sho...

Hmm. You should have received it by now. What's your email?

The Outer Wilds, Nine Sols, And Embracing The End - Endless Mode Nine Sols and The Outer Wilds are two very different games, tonally and mechanically, but both beautifully explore accepting the end.

The Outer Wilds, Nine Sols, And Embracing The End www.endlessmode.com/video-games/...

Spinal Tap: The Band We Need Right Now, Again On the eve of another historic reunion, we reflect on the undeniable rock greatness of the immortal Spinal Tap.

Spinal Tap: The band we need right now, again -- On the eve of another momentous performance, we reflect on the legacy of these rock heroes. #SpinalTap #ThisIsSpinalTap #SpinalTap2 www.pastemagazine.com/article/spin...

The 10 Best Anime Series of 2025, So Far 2025 has already given us plenty of excellent anime, and we're counting down the ten best so far, from popular sequels to hidden gems.

One of the things, I'm most excited about for ‪@endlessmode.bsky.social is the expanded anime coverage from @elijahgonzalez.bsky.social. www.endlessmode.com/anime/anime/...

For my first piece at Endless Mode, I tried to make sense of the everything while playing Mario Kart World. Fortunately, I've had the cow.

Endless Mode: It's the New Thing Welcome to Endless Mode: infinite possibilities in games, anime, theme parks, and a whole lot more--like, uh, pinball.

Welcome to Endless Mode: infinite possibilities in games, anime, theme parks, and more. www.endlessmode.com/video-games/...

Endless Mode: It's the New Thing Welcome to Endless Mode: infinite possibilities in games, anime, theme parks, and a whole lot more--like, uh, pinball.

Endless Mode launch day is here! A new home for great writing about games, anime and more - www.endlessmode.com/video-games/...

I don't want to freak out Fox News, but there was an Irish invasion at our Lake Michigan border last March.

An Ode to the Lowliest (Deepest?) Horror Subgenre: Shark Movies It's always Shark Week when it comes to horror movies. We look at the wonderful, wet, toothy world of shark movies.

An ode to the lowliest (deepest?) horror subgenre: Shark movies. From Shark Exorcist to House Shark, Sharks of the Corn, and beyond. #horrormovies #sharks #sharkweek www.pastemagazine.com/article/shar...

Ain’t that somethin’? I wonder what changed between then and now…

COVER STORY | Sufjan Stevens Communicates With Ghosts Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

Sufjan Stevens opens up about his two (IMO) masterpieces, Illinois and Carry & Lowell, in this cover story from @yogurttowne.bsky.social: www.pastemagazine.com/music/sufjan...

You still have time to read the books. They're short! And outstanding!

a lot of people think you need a lot of money to buy clothes. now you're right. ok. my bad.

Paste Magazine Find tens of thousands of live performance videos at PasteMagazine.com—a leading online destination for pop-culture enthusiasts covering music, movies, TV, books, video games, beer, comics and just ab...

We just surpassed 500 million views on YouTube on the Paste Channel. So many amazing sessions here: www.youtube.com/pastemagazine

went to New York for 20 hours to write this thing

Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq

Masked Thugs Kidnap Another Student Off the Street Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

This is a fascist administration. www.splinter.com/masked-thugs...

Loved Scavengers Reign so much.

They Might Be Giants' record label wanted them to start a dance craze They Might Be Giants' record label wanted them to start a dance craze

Career-spanning interview in the AV Club just posted.
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Sickening, evil, totally in line with everything in No Other Land. The final footage sees a settler shoot co-director Basel Adra's cousin point-blank in the stomach with a rifle. An Oscar can't stop hate crimes

Adult Swim's Common Side Effects Defiantly Critiques the Medical-Industrial Complex Common Side Effects is a smart, proud, brazen critique of America's insane pharmaceutical, insurance, and medical complex.

Everybody should be watching this show. Funny, thrilling, character-driven, and depressingly timely. www.pastemagazine.com/tv/common-si...

YouTube video by Double Double Whammy This Is Lorelei - Dancing in the Club (MJ Lenderman Version)

When I saw MJ Lenderman in Atlanta, I was shocked to hear him cover This Is Lorelei's "Dancing in the Club." Those two very different artists released two of my top three albums of 2024, and it felt like he was in my brain. Now the rest of the world gets to enjoy it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1on3...

Five Reasons to Subscribe to Splinter, A Good Website Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

It's been encouraging to watch Splinter's traffic grow significantly each of the last four months as our writers try to actually push back against tyranny and corruption, but ad revenue per visit is about half of our entertainment sites. www.splinter.com/five-reasons...

Watch Jordana's Paste Session in New York Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

Jordana played two songs for our Paste Session at Second Take Studio in New York, including one from her new album, 'Lively Premonition.' www.pastemagazine.com/music/jordan...