“I put a pitch-shifter on the master bus!”: In the era of lo-fi beats and bedroom recording, does sound quality even matter anymore?

With bedroom-produced DIY tracks topping the streaming charts and explosive distortion the new norm on TikTok, is sound quality becoming irrelevant in 2026?

Paste Panel: Our writers’ favorite guitar solos ever

There aren’t enough guitar solos anymore. I mean, there are guitar solos still happening—in the metalspheres of the world, ...