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 ...

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

McCartney says the Beatles were happy to see if Lennon’s altered state created studio magic. On this night, it nearly ended ...

One of King Studio’s recording packages even includes a music video. By Kathleen Beckett Reporting from Seoul The perfect gift for a K-pop wannabe? How about a recording session in a professional ...

Perhaps you’re putting together your first demo. Maybe you’ve landed an audition and need to record some sides. Or you’ve booked the job and will soon head into the studio—congratulations! While ...

The clip is an authentic, behind the scenes look at a collaboration coming together, from handwritten lyrics, to 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 ...

On this day (January 28) in 1985, some of the biggest names in music formed the short-lived supergroup called USA for Africa to record “We Are the World” to raise money to combat the famine in ...

As they worked on the final version of "Asking Me Lies" — which would eventually emerge as the seventh track on the Replacements' 1989 album Don't Tell a Soul — guitarist Tommy Stinson got into an ...

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. “We Are the World” was a ...