R.E.M.

By Band of the Day His collaborations are to die for. Hawley has also done tremendous session work. His collaborations include R.E.M., the Arctic Monkeys, Nancy Sinatra, and Elbow. There was almost one with Morrissey's live band too, for which Hawley auditioned as a guitarist, but was rejected after he starte...

By Pop Tarts Suck Toasted 2. R.E.M.; They're probably too big to curate and play an ATP, but since another Warner Bros. signee did so this year I thought I'd throw it out there. First off, you know you would want to see them in a place way smaller then they normally play. Beyond that they come from Athens, Georgia, one of the gre...

By Pop Tarts Suck Toasted 1. David Bowie; I don't know when the last David Bowie tour or performance took place, though I'm sure I could Google it. I don't know if he will ever perform again. My fingers are crossed that he does though because I would pay practically anything to see him perform. David Bowie - "Let's Dance"

By Cody B of MOG Of all the major team sports, baseball is the one with a long literary tradition that any indie rocker could appreciate. Fer instance, last year, Steve Wynn (Dream Syndicate, Gutterball) and Scott McCaughey (The Minus 5, R.E.M.), put out an album as the Baseball Project with help from Peter B...

By Fasted7 of MOG That happened during the show: Every time the band stopped playing at the end of a song, some young guy would jump and scream at the top of his lungs, "Play 8 Miles High!!!" He did it every single time they stopped and the entire show Michael Stipe- who had a pretty full head of hair (back then) t...

By fastnbulbous of MOG Signs that he was starting to lose the plot appeared when he chose the awkwardly creepy Hallowed Ground over the Violent Femmes' self-titled classic debut, Hüsker Dü's Candy Apple Grey over Zen Arcade, and Sonic Youth's Goo over Daydream Nation, Sister, basically any other Sonic Youth...

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...

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 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 Charley Rogulewski of MOG Modest Mouse is heading out on a late spring/summer tour with REM and the National. (On the indie front this tour almost compares with the mini traveling festival that is Kanye West's tour.) Just thought I'd fill you in. There isn't any new album they're plugging. Modest Mouse are still tourin...

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 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...