It’s time for another indie magazine mention, though Paste hasn’t quite “>surrendered its soul to the bill payers. Staffers do, however, engage in plenty of free liquor tastings, courtesy aggressive advertisers.
Paste is the music and lifestyle magazine you think is tops if you’re the type of person that’s avoided joining the Paper magazine cult all these years. You also like Paste if you and your friends’ second-tier hobby is pretending Blender is a shitty magazine.
What differentiates Paste from the No. 1 magazine on the Tribune’s list, music magazine Blender, as well as mainstays such as Rolling Stone and Spin, is that you can pretty much bet that no matter how much pop superstar Britney Spears agrees to bare, she will never be on its cover.
That’s why editor Josh Jackson & Co. are ruminating on plastering wholesome girls like India.Arie and Fiona Apple, who have anything but sex appeal.