R.E.M.

Artist: R.E.M. Album: Reckoning (Deluxe Edition) Review: "Murmur" is the more inventive of R.E.M.'s early albums, but their second disc, the powerful Reckoning, established the band as bona fide leaders of the new American indie-rock underground. Drummer Bill Berry shines here, propellin...

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By Whitney Matheson Last night R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to show off his magnificent beard. He also demonstrated how to "smile with your eyes" in a funny segment that showed a) just how hypnotic Stipe's peepers still...

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By rss@youtube.com (MyMainProblem) Review of the album "Accelerate", released 2008 by the band R.E.M. from Athens Georgia. Produced by Jacknife Lee and R.E.M. Overall 4* rating Key Tracks: Supernatural Superserious, Hollow Man, Sing for the Submarine, Living well is the Best Revenge Subscribe to get bi-weekly video reviews fr...

By Ryan Dombal As previously reported, down south singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt and fellow Athens, Georgia residents Elf Power will take part in a R.E.M. tribute show at New York City's Carnegie Hall on March 11. And now the two acts are also joining forces for a tour that will take them across the U.S. and Eur...

2. R.E.M. (June 14, Nikon Theater at Jones Beach): “Welcome to R.E.M. Survivor 2008,” Michael Stipe said, as the band took the stage in the middle of a vicious thunderstorm. The lightning strikes, the sheets of rain, the appropriate use of “It’s the End of the World As We Know It” all contributed to a...

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By rss@youtube.com (SavingFaith333) A Supernatural fanvid focusing on the strained relationship between Sam and Dean here in season four. Spoilers up through "Wishful Thinking." Set to R.E.M.'s "Losing My Religion." Disclaimer: I own nothing related to Supernatural. Sadly.

By Zen Raven Singer/guitarist Katy Steele (sister of the Sleepy Jackson's Luke Steele) formed the group after exiting her previous combo, the Plastik Scene, recruiting her brother's longtime friend Simon Leach to play drums. Following the addition of bassist Scott O'Donoghue, Leach moved to gui...

Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 - comprised of R.E.M's Peter Buck on guitar, Scott McCaughey (The Minus 5, Young Fresh Fellows, R.E.M.) on bass and drummer Bill Rieflin (Ministry, R.E.M.) - will storm back onto the pop music landscape with the February 17 release of Goodnight Oslo, the follow-u...

By NewBeats(newbeatsmag@yahoo.com) R.E.M.’s full-length debut, Murmur, which came out 25 years ago, set the standard for many alternative/college bands and rock albums to come. The sound from that album was the antithesis of the popular music in the early ‘80s—it was minimalist (no bloated, overextended guitar solos or synt...

This year marks the 25th anniversary of R.E.M.'s debut full-length album, Murmur. The band is marking the occasion with a remastered version of the record, which includes a bonus live concert of R.E.M. performing in 1983. The Decemberists are also back with a collection of new singles. Always The...

Music: Hilary Duff just released a Best Of collection. Sure, the Disney Channel's Lizzie McGuire is only 21. Only five years and some eight hits into the actress's sputtering side job as a recording artist, this retrospective may be it for the Disneyfied dance-popper and her Gerber glop. So...

Twenty-five years later, the album that invented "alternative rock" still sounds great: anthemic on a bedroom scale, danceable but not robotic, experimental without being oblique. And Michael Stipe's nasal muezzin-croon pulses with brooding emotion even when the lyrics are uninte...

By Mike Ragogna After a brief, smaller indie fling, the Anthens, Georgia-based band of gentle hooligans, R.E.M., got hitched to the very sexy I.R.S. in the early eighties, and out of this perfect creative marriage came the birth of one of the most influential albums ever released. With much of R.E.M.'s groundwork...

Haiku Review of Radio Free Europe (REM, 1983) ... Vote Now! How well does each haiku describe the album/song/film/book? Please give each haiku a vote out of 5...and if you can do better, please leave a better haiku in the comments! ...

By bandweblogs Recorded with friends and longtime cohorts The Venus Three - Peter Buck (guitar) and R.E.M. mainstays Scott McCaughey (bass, vocals) and Bill Rieflin (drums) - and Ryuichi Sakamoto, ‘Goodnight Oslo’ is Robyn’s first album in three years. It follows previous Venus 3 collaborations ‘Ole! T...

By Daniel Kreps • Hands-On: Guitar Hero: World Tour Do you suffer from Guitar Hero separation anxiety when you’re on the subway or at the doctor’s office? Good news: Activision announced the track list for Nintendo DS’ Guitar Hero On Tour: Decades, the sequel to the portable version of the GH franchise. A...

By Kyle West Fables of the Reconstruction, R.E.M.'s third album, was released in 1985. It is definitely the most overlooked gem in their catalog. Many think R.E.M. begins and ends at "Losing My Religion," "Everybody Hurts," and "It's the End of the World as We Know It." Well, I'm here to tell you these songs are n...

Between songs, Michael Stipe mentioned that the band changes the setlist every night and that guitarist Peter Buck had told him before the show that he had packed it with as many “protest” songs as possible. Glancing over the setlist, ...

By Brock Thiessen With disc one sticking to the original album tracklisting, the second boasts a previously unreleased concert played at Larry’s Hideaway in Toronto just a few months after Murmur’s 1983 release. Along with several Murmur cuts, ...

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By MTV News The band has been pretty public about how this album and tour brought them back from the brink of dissolution, and it was evident that even after a grueling tour (they came directly to Athens from Istanbul), they were digging being onstage together. Michael Stipe even led the charge to the p...

By Josh Hathaway One Response to “R.E.M. Accelerate Tour Set List 09.18.08 Hamburg, Germany”. mosco, on September 19th, 2008 at 3:50 am Said:. Thanks for the review. Do you know the attendance of the R.E.M. concert in Hamburg? Was a sellout? Thank you. ...

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.

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.

By MelissaMc Love on the Inside feels like the answer in album form. Written over the course of a year and recorded live at Atlanta’s famed Southern Tracks, it reveals Bush and Nettles as closet music geeks, the kind who spent their teen years lying on the bed with headphones, picking apart great records...

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...

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.

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

R.E.M. Accelerate Warner Bros. Accelerate, R.E.M.'s first studio album in four years, is being widely hailed as a return to the seminal college-rock band's roots, with its punchy, stripped-down guitars and renewed musical focus.

By Josh Hathaway This isn't going to be a review of R.E.M.'s Accelerate; well, not exactly. A review, to me, implies past tense. It implies a verdict has been reached and a decision will be rendered. I liveblogged the record when it was released Tuesday. I knew then my opinions would evolve as my first impressions w...

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...

By Maura Johnston From time to time, we like to round up the all-important, all-summarizing last sentences of the biggest new-music reviews. Under consideration today is the latest album by R.E.M., Accelerate, which hits stores tomorrow: Earlier: The New R.E.M. Accelerates Past Its Release Date To The Web

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 At very least, it's nice to hear a big, strong opener: "Living Well..." sounds great loud, and R.E.M. sounds like a band with purpose. Michael Stipe's lyrics are largely fine throughout—although there are some real clunkers—and he's gotten slightly better at being cryptic again, which to me is...

By David Fricke The other half of the twenty-three-song show ran almost the entire R.E.M. timeline, going back to “Second Guessing” from 1984’s Reckoning but not avoiding highpoints of the recent, “troubled” years such as “Imitation of Life” as the band fought to find a new equilibrium after the departur...

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By Daniel Kreps Photo: Getty] R.E.M. (with Modest Mouse and the National in tow) announce the first leg of their Accelerate tour, the Allman Brothers reserve New York’s Beacon Theatre for the month of May, Ace Frehley ditches Kiss and Gavin DeGraw promotes his self-titled new album. A veritable parade of da...

By Kate Richardson Last night on Anderson Cooper 360°, R.E.M. premiered the videofor their new single "Until the Day is Done"/ trailer for the upcoming Anderson Cooper adventure "Planet in Peril." The song is so bland it kind of makes the polar bears want to go extinct. But is it, as Jess predicted yesterday, "th...

By Daryl D The music video for “Everybody Hurts” is a perfect companion to the single. It basically shows a traffic jam where people’s thoughts are interpreted by words at the bottom of the screen. Finally, at the end of the video, all the drivers become so miserable that they just leave their cars and h...

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 Josh Hathaway It's hard to argue R.E.M. has been at the top of their game these past few years, but "The Great Beyond" and "Leaving New York" (from the truly awful Around The Sun) stand with the very best songs this band has ever produced. I'm not saying they are the best, but I'll argue with anyone that they belo...

By Josh Hathaway The big news for this week? That idiot DJRadiohead has stopped running this feature and has turned it over to me. There are a few of you who will get that joke. The rest of you would do best to keep reading forward, as there are some great entries in this week's Listening Room.Speaking of great ent...

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...

Michael Stipe talks about how he feels about The Beatles: listen] On the band’s love of Velvet Underground and Patti Smith: listen] On being chosen as Rolling Stone’s Album of the Year in 1983, over Michael Jackson’s Thriller: listen]

Grade: A College towns across America have long been the birthplace of great music. From Athens, Ga., home to the University of Georgia as well as R.E.M. and The B-52’s, to Austin, Texas, the location of University of Texas and birthplace of Spoon and You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, countle...