R.E.M.

By Michaelangelo Matos Generally speaking, releasing a best-of is a sign of a career that's pretty much finished. Obviously there are major exceptions: Madonna's Immaculate Collection, Pet Shop Boys' Discography, and R.E.M.'s Eponymous come to mind, with the latter being a shining example of a specific sort of...

By ongoingly of MOG Grrr. Today driving home I left my ipod in the back seat and couldn't get at it without causing injury to myself or other motorists, so I turned on the radio to the local "indie-college-urban-folk-rock- publicly-funded" station. And they were playing R.E.M. Yay. One of their new tunes from Acce...

By Charley Rogulewski of MOG 1. "The Book of Lies" Robert Ellis Orrall (new recording created for book) 2. "Superman" REM 3. "A Little Respect" Wheatus 4. "Superman"(It's Not Easy)" Five for Fighting 5. "Holding Out for a Hero" Bonnie Tyler 6. "Greatest American Hero" Joey Scarbury

By Daniel Kreps The Hold Steady and Drive-By Truckers storm November with a co-headlining tour, R.E.M. return to North America with a trio of shows and System of a Down off-shoot Scars on Broadway announce their first-ever tour. Full dates for all three treks, after the jump.

PR-inside.com) Rockers R.E.M. have been forced to relocate one of the shows on their current U.K. tour because of poor ticket sales. The Losing My Religion hitmakers were due to play at the 74,000-capacity Millennium Stadium in Cardiff later this month (Aug08), but promoters at Live Nation, th...

Weaver D's inspired the title of an R.E.M. album, and Georgia's first black female dentist had her office in what is now Morton Theatre. So what? For those who don't know Athens well, an online podtour can clue them in. Available from iTunes or Athenswelcomecenter.

1 Old St. Mary's Episcopal Church (R.E.M. Steeple) Photo by Lesley Onstott 2 University Golf Course Photo by Lesley Onstott 3 Clocktower in Five Points Photo by Jim Diffly 4 Butts-Mehre Heritage Hall Photo by Jim Diffly 5 Fine Arts Department of Th

PR-inside.com) A recent outdoor R.E.M. concert in New York was delayed for more than an hour after the stage was struck by lightning. Thousands of fans, crammed into the Nikon at Jones Beach auditorium on 14 June (08), were soaked by a storm that passed over the coastal venue, and just as the band...

PR-inside.com) R.E.M. frontman MICHAEL STIPE is proud for his legendary band to be known as 'geeky', and insists they will never be cool. The rocker has admitted it will never be fashionable for music fans to enjoy his music, but claims their uncool image is their biggest strength. He says, 'We a...

By By JON CARAMANICA Michael Stipe, lead singer of R.E.M., spent a great deal of time explicating on Thursday night, good-naturedly turning Madison Square Garden into a lecture hall.

By Matthew Perpetua Soundchecks often serve as safe zones for musicians, a place where they can feel free to goof off and take chances that might not be suitable for an audience of people who've paid big money to hear straight versions of their favorite songs. R.E.M., however, is a bit less precious about the momen...

Makin' Athens proud, Widespread Panic will be the third Athens band inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in this decade; the B-52s (which got its start in Athens in 1977) earned the honor in 2000 followed by R.E.M. in 2006.

R.E.M. this week released a new live digital EP, "Live in London," available exclusively on iTunes and featuring nine songs recorded during the band's March 26 performance at the Apple Store on London's Regent Street.

By Anthony Miccio 3. Kid Rock Oh sure, "All Summer Long" is nostalgic. But not for this. Michael Jackson Plans Comeback With New Kids On The Block [Showbiz Spy] Green Day live @ Paint Factory 1989 prt1 [YouTube] Siskel & Ebert review "Rattle & Hum" [YouTube] Kid Rock - Yo Da Lin In The Valley [YouTube]

PR-inside.com) CHICAGO (AP) - In a June 20 story about the band R.E.M., The Associated Press, relying on information provided by lead singer Michael Stipe, identified the Canadian company Crush Inc. as an ad agency. It is a production company. ..

By sommerface of MOG My second submission idea is song/albums that members of R.E.M. have played on.  That comes from a trivia question I answered back in 1995.  The same radio station used to have an super awesome afternoon show, and the DJ did "Trivia From Hell."  I was reading Spin, and I half paid attention to the q...

By Maura Johnston Is There Even A Middle Ground Anymore [marathonpacks] Meat Loaf - I would do anything for love [YouTube] 2Pac - California Love [YouTube] Britney Spears - Toxic [DailyMotion] Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson - Scream [DailyMotion] Weird Al Yankovic, "Fat" [DailyMotion]

Now it can be told: In 2004, during the recording and release of the “Around the Sun” (Warner Bros.) album, R.E.M. was on the ropes.

By Whitney Matheson I've written many positive things about The Baseball Project, a group consisting of R.E.M.'s Peter Buck, Scott McCaughey and others with an album of baseball-themed songs out July 8. (I played one of my favorite tracks from it on last...

Michael Stipe thinks the music video is a ''dead medium'' -- but the R.E.M. singer still wants the band's songs to be accompanied by some kind of visuals.

R.E.M. wrapped up its North American tour in front of a packed house - nearly 20,000 fans - Saturday night at Lakewood Ampitheatre in Atlanta.

R.E.M. called its latest album Accelerate, in tribute to its brisk tempos and brief running time. But considering the way it reverses the flagging vitality of 2004's Around the Sun, the band might as well have called the new record Defibrillate.

R.E.M. performs at Lakewood Amphitheatre in Atlanta on Saturday night. The band's new album, "Accelerate," was released April 1 to critical acclaim.

While R.E.M. has grown far beyond its hometown roots, its music is as poignant as ever in the music city where the band got its start.

NEW YORK June 20, 2008, 01:20 pm ET · Michael Stipe thinks the music video is a "dead medium" — but the R.E.M. singer still wants the band's songs to be accompanied by some kind of visuals.

By Maura Johnston The New York metropolitan area was treated to some fierce (in both power and awesomeness to behold) thunderstorms on Saturday, and they happened to coincide with R.E.M.'s concert at Long Island's Jones Beach Theater—a venue which, as you might deduce from the name, sits right on the Atlant...

Now it can be told: In 2004, during the recording and release of the "Around the Sun" (Warner Bros.) album, R.E.M. was on the ropes.

By Whitney Matheson Despite all we've read, seen and heard about R.E.M., there are a bunch of things fans never get to see: the band seconds before they take the stage, for example. Michael Stipe's makeup removal after a show. Peter Buck's father-daughter...

By By JON PARELES From the beginning, R.E.M.'s face value has been a fascinating blur. The four-man band from Athens, Ga., is the epitome of what Marshall McLuhan defined as ''cool,'' drawing its audience in by making them complete the picture. R.E.M. has shrugged off most of rock's accepted ways and means of songw...

By mocha louder of MOG while perhaps some ties to the grunge girl bands like L7, there are also hints of that early Jane's Addiction sound at times, and then you can just throw in some moody ballads and straight up bar band rock, and then even some bluesy americana and jangle-pop. i loves it. The producer for their fi...

By Sturgell of MOG Hollow Man," the second single from R.E.M.'s new album Accelerate, premiered exclusively on MySpace TV on Wednesday, April 23rd. The video for "Hollow Man" was created by Crush Inc. - a cutting edge graphic-design and production studio based in Toronto. Michael Stipe

By Mark Saleski Here's how it might work:A band shows up at a certain point in your life and you happen to be grabbed by the music. The group and its songs become a part of your life just as surely as the memories of the apartment you lived in, your girlfriend at the time, and anything else that was 'important.'R.E....

By By ALAN LIGHT R.E.M.’s new album “Accelerate” is a very deliberate response to an internal crisis that Michael Stipe, the group’s singer, described as major.

• Live Nation threw 150 million D's at Jay-Z. • R.E.M. made everyone get nostalgic enough to actually pay money for a new album again. • And on a sad (well, sorta-sad) note, Ramiele hitched up her high-waisted shorts and exited American Idol's contestant pool.

By indiepixie of MOG Ever wonder what goes on in the mind of Mr. Stipe? Well I've got another clip here from the interview with Michael Stipe during SXSW where Michael Stipe talks about his dreamworld and the song "Sing For The Submarine." Since Accelerate was just released April 1st, it's pretty interesting in...

By Bob Sassone Here's who's on the late night shows tonight. Charlie Rose: Pete Peterson The Daily Show: William Safire The Colbert Report: REM and Susan Jacoby The Late Show with David Letterman: George Clooney and Norah Jones Jay Leno: Steve Carell, Kathie Lee Gifford, and Ani DeFranco Jimmy Kimmel L...

By David Bill R.E.M. performed Tuesday, April 1, on the "Today Show" In New York City. They opened with the classic "Losing My Religion" ... and then performed "Supernatural Superserious" from the new album "Accelerate" ... and in the next hour of the show, they performed "Hollow Man," also from "Accelerate":

By Mat Brewster The crowds are gathering, the fanboys form a line. They all sing a chorus of “R.E.M. is back.” I join that crowd, but stand in the back and mutter under my breath that they may be back, but they aren't the same. I'll sing along to that fanboy song, but I'll sing it soft and to myself.I can't help but wonde...

By Whitney Matheson Stereogum has posted a cool tribute to Bjork's Post, similar to what the site has done with Radiohead's OK Computer and R.E.M.'s Automatic for the People. Go here to experience Enjoyed: A Tribute to Bjork's Post. The track-by-track tribute includes...

• Meanwhile, Gnarls Barkley dropped its album a little early. • Spin in 1990: Charmingly clueless about hip-hop. Spin in 2008: Charmingly ga-ga for R.E.M. • We said goodbye to American Idol's skunk-haired Janis Joplin wannabe Amanda Overmyer—but we may be saying hello to her again soon.

By Anono-Critic After a decade or so of evincing little interest in the band (neither, frankly, did any of the big American rock mags during the time, although Mojo and Q could be counted on to do cartwheels upon each record's release), Spin makes much of the increased "rock" quotient of R.E.M.'s new album, Ac...

By Dan Gibson The Broadcasting Commission of Ireland has determined that, for their purposes, R.E.M. can now be considered an Irish band. This might be somewhat surprising to, say, Americans who have assumed for sometime that considering the band was formed in Athens, Georgia they would be one of our own....

Music video for the R.E.M. song, "Shiny Happy People". The song features guest backing vocals by Kate Pierson of the B-52's who also has a prominent role in the song's music video.

By Rose Kelly After their Dublin residency ends this Wednesday, R.E.M. will return to their Athens, Georgia, hometown to finish the as-yet-untitled album. If they capture any of the courage they displayed Saturday night, this effort may be the most bold R.E.M. release in years.

R.E.M.'s concert year is underway in Dublin, as the band has dug into the city's Olympia Theater for a five night run of waaay sold-out shows. If you can't be there, well, you won't be seeing the band this year; those are the only shows slated for '07. But the good news is that these shows are a "Worki...

By Daryl D R.E.M. went on to have more hits after “Everybody Hurts,” but seemed to crash, commercially, with their album New Adventures in Hi-Fi, released in 1996. Still, many critics consider that album, as well as subsequent R.E.M. albums, to be great musical works that prove that artistic greatness do...

By Whitney I have to admire this guy for trying to blog about every R.E.M. song ever written. He just started the project, but it looks pretty good so far, and I like that he's jumping from album to album. His site...

By Tankboy Has America caught on? Sort of. The band played four noteworthy, dizzying sonic flybys at the recent SXSW debacle in Austin, yet they’ll touch down here tomorrow night at the Double Door – a modest step back from the group’s sell out of Metro last October. The snob in Chicagoist says “all the b...

By trikc Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five were the first hip-hop act to be inducted into the Rock Hall, joining other acts that represented a wide swath of artists: college rock favorites R.E.M., punk rock poet Patti Smith, rockers Van Halen and '60s girl group The Ronettes.

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