It was 1961 in New York City, and a 20-year-old named Bob Dylan was recording his first album. “What I remember is this scruffy little kid sounding like he was 80 years old. And I was astonished,” ...

This story originally appeared in Issue #10 of Paste Magazine in June/July of 2004, republished in celebration of Paste’s 20th Anniversary. The greatest albums and singles don’t drop from the sky to ...

NEW YORKNEW YORK — Thirty-nine years ago, the biggest music stars in the world crammed into a recording studio in Los Angeles for an all-night session that they hoped might alter music history. Fans ...

Longtime Prince collaborator David “Z” Rivkin recalled his early studio sessions with the musician, prior to his first record deal. Rivkin’s first time in the studio with Prince was with the ...

John Lennon was in the throes of a debaucherous, hedonistic, and at times violent “Lost Weekend” in the mid-1970s, so it’s unsurprising that the recording sessions he scheduled for his fifth and final ...

The Beatles’ recording sessions were detailed by John Lennon in 1966, who said this rock band made everything from “electronic music” by clicking glasses together to “jokes.” Here’s what we learned ...