Jack Antonoff is our May cover star

May 12, 2026 Jack Antonoff is our May cover star MAY 12, 2026 TOP STORIES COVER STORY | Jack Antonoff’s new morning The pop mega-producer, songwriter, and bandleader sits down with Paste editor Matt Mitchell for a sprawling conversation about origin stories, breaking ancestral pacts, dedicating his life to making and touring music, hate in the time of social media rage-baiting, and the new Bleachers album, everyone for ten minutes . Dash Lewis on “Hang On To Your Ego" Pet Sounds Project: "Hang On To Your Ego" modulates up rather than down, lending a buoyancy not often found on the album. Put simply, it more closely resembles the group’s surfboards-and-summertime songs of yore than the pocket symphonies that populate the rest of the record. FKA twi... read