Beck & Boldface Names At Paste Party Last Night

Paste Magazine folks threw a party last night here in New York at the Knitting Factory & Shore Fire turned out in force for fun...what turned out to be boys' night out with Nicks Baily and Loss-Eaton, Matt Hanks and Rob Krauser. Beck, who's on the current cover, turned in what Rob termed an "awesome" set.

Besides Paste editors and writers Josh Jackson, Reid Davis, Jay Sweet and Steve LaBate, other boldface names in the packed crowd (boldface to us that is) included John Jackson and Adam Block of SonyBMG Legacy, Revolver/Paste scribe Kristina Feliciano, NY Daily News' Jim Farber, Blue Note's Cem Kurosman, a bunch of Sacksco staff (who rep opening band Hem) and 2:59 Record's honcho Abe Bradshaw who came with his artists, upcoming Paste 4 to Watch subjects Matt Mays & El Torpedo (our clients) and Willie Nile, and Ben Kweller. We need to get out more, so we're psyched rumors are that this will become a monthly event in New York.

(l-r Jackson, Block, unknown, Satlof. All photos courtesy Theresa Coulter)

UPDATE:
We got reports that Adam Schlessinger (Fountains of Wayne), James Iha (Smashing Pumpkins) were also there, and Matisyahu showed up later, after Beck's performance.

And we neglected to mention that our friend Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson was on the "wheels of steel" all night. Wow.