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 ...

You step into a studio where private betrayals and heavy drug use weren’t background noise — they became the raw material for a massively successful record. The band worked through divorces, affairs, ...

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 ...

One afternoon in a Hollywood studio produced a song that would change his career—and country music—with almost no one ...

Offering a bit of backstory to the tentative title, the frontman painted a picture of Korn's recent studio time that involved multiple sessions in different parts of the country. But when the band ...