In the last couple of years I've become increasingly frustrated with mainstream music magazines, Paste included -- not because they've changed, but because I've changed. Reviews of new albums look like mad libs with interchangeable clichés; feature articles aren't much better, though they have more research in them.

Yesterday, you were introduced to Mel, one of my fantastic new writers for the site. Today, say hello to Chantaal.

I've been at this blogging thing for a little over a year now, and recently, I started asking around for a little bit of help. I'm only one girl, after all, and I want to be able to provide more news, more opinions, more facts and reviews and general overall awesomeness.

News & Links - February 25

With my feed reader at 1000+ unread posts (thanks a lot, busy work week and unexpected out-of-country trip), I might as well just claim defeat and start from scratch, but not before compiling some things that have caught my eye.

OK Go talks about embedding videos, the internet remembers Kate McGarrigle, and artists band together to support Haiti.