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Live From Paste: Bahamas Copy By Max Blau, Video by Irina Dvalidze, Chris Humphries and Renée Lynn Reizman
Alfie Jurvanen, known by the stage name Bahamas, couldn’t have picked a less apt name to reflect his musical and personal background. Hailing from Toronto, the songwriter’s minimal, harmony-laden folk songs earned him praised on his 2009 album Pink Strat. Watch Bahamas’ Live...
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WatchLive from Paste: Kopecky Family Band Copy By Max Blau, Video by Irina Dvalidze, Chris Humphries, Renée Lynn Reizman, Jaz Dixon.
In 2011, few bands have captured our attention more than Kopecky Family Band. The Nashville band wowed us back in March with a captivating performance at our Paste Party in Austin. We liked them so much that we invited the band of Kopeckys to our offices over the...
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Live From Paste: Ivan & Alyosha
Video By Irina Dvalidze, Renée Reizman.Text By Max Blau. Audio by Chris Humphries
Ivan & Alyosha makes music perfect for a Sunday morning soundtrack. The folk-rock quartet combines impressive harmonies with a rich, easygoing sound that echoes in similar fashion to fellow Seattle natives The Head and The Heart. While originally scheduled for a Sunday...
October 2011
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Hey everyone,
I just started another blog that will be chronicling my research for Maxwell School’s history seminar. I am focusing on the Ice trade in Atlantic/Coastal America in 17-19th centuries, which is more interesting than it sounds. Promise. Be sure to give it a follow if you care to and feel free to hit me up in case you have some interesting leads that you think I should look...
September 2011
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Text and Audio by Max Blau, Video by Irina Dvalidze
You all know the drill with SXSW. Between the official showcases and the unofficial day parties, thousands of bands head down to Austin, Texas every year for the weeklong festival hoping to be heard, seen and remembered. For attendees, it’s music overload—you may see 20 or 30 acts over the span of several days. I saw 100 acts this year...
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Video By Irina Dvalidze, Renee Lynn Reizman and Chris Humphries
Text by Max Blau
As Ohioan folk rock outfit Over The Rhine continues to tour in support of their latest record The Long Surrender, the husband and wife duo of Linford Detweiler and Karin Bergquist recently made their way through Atlanta to perform at the Variety Playhouse. Paste stopped by before their set to record and film their...
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WatchLive from Bonnaroo Video Stream.
I worked on most of the videos in the stream above with Chris Humphries, Renée Reizman, Kelly Makepeace and Max Blau.
Below is the breakdown of my contribution.
Man Man - Cinematography and Editing Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears - Cinematography Lauren Shera and David Mayfield - Cinematography and Editing Infantree - Cinematography Jessica Lea...
June 2011
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Audio by Chris Humphries, Video by Kelly Makepeace and Irina Dvalidze
On the final day of Bonnaroo last weekend, Lauren Shera and David Mayfield teamed up to give an unsuspecting individual a massage while they discussed Bonnaroo, Ron Jeremy and each other’s music. Check out this hilarious conversation below.
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Audio by Chris Humphries, Video by Irina Dvalidze
Day one of Bonnaroo proved to be quite interesting when we got on the Ferris wheel with Abigail Washburn. Known for her interesting and expletive-laden stories, she offered us an account of her experiences at a United Kingdom airport involving a Filipino restaurant employee, an interestingly-named hamburger and her first encounter with Angry...
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Audio by Chris Humphries, Video by Irina Dvalidze and Renée Reizman
After kicking off day two at Bonnaroo with her performance, Sharon Van Etten took some time out of her afternoon to chat with Paste. Check her out the video below as she speaks about her first Bonnaroo experience, working with Aaron Dessner and how Leonard Cohen inspired one of her newest songs.
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WatchTimes New Viking Soundcheck.
Video By Irina Dvalidze, Renee Lynn Reizman and Chris Humphries; Photo by Max Blau
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Minutes before Dead Confederate took to the Ferris wheel to perform their song “Ferris Wheel” for Paste, they spent a few minutes updating us on what they had coming up. Partnering with several Georgia-based bands, including R.E.M. and Futurebirds, Dead Confederate is planning to produce a compilation album to benefit the Wounded Warrior Project. Check out their ferris...
May 2011
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WatchLatest video project. My last one for Jerk Magazine.
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March 2011
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Cuse has lots of notable alums, but very few, other than the dude that wrote (500) Days of Summer, have as much indie cred with campus “hipsters” as Pete Yorn. So in case you let the grand blizzard of March 6th, better known as the snow storm to cause University Administration to cave and cancel class for the first time in 15 years, worry not. As always Jerk was there to bring you front row...
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