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Michael Stipe Amends “When I First Heard <i>Horses</i>” Story, Acknowledges Foghat

anthonyjmiccio | May 16, 2008 10:00 am
anthonyjmiccio | May 16, 2008 10:00 am

AP080407024183.jpgAnyone who’s read their share of REM interviews knows the tale in which a young Michael Stipe buys Patti Smith’s Horses, plays it over and over while eating a bowl of cherries and decides “hey, I think I’ll find a record store clerk with a guitar and mumble over his arpeggios” before vomiting. It’s one of those anecdotes that helped establish the lineage of underground cool, along with the immortal adage “everyone who heard the Velvet Underground started a band.” Now Stipe has given a self-professed “exclusive” to Death and Taxes magazine, admitting that Horses wasn’t the only album he bought that day. “One of them was Hall & Oates, one of them was Foghat, Fool For the City.” Have a field day, popists!

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Dan Gibson | April 28, 2008 2:45 am
Dan Gibson | April 28, 2008 2:45 am

Another day, another festival lineup announcement; this time the Voodoo Music Experience, scheduled for October 24-26 in New Orleans. No real surprises though, with Sasquatch’s R.E.M. joining Bumbershoot’s Stone Temple Pilots and Pemberton/Lollapalooza/Virgin Festival’s Nine Inch Nails. More »


Dan Gibson | April 28, 2008 2:45 am
Dan Gibson | April 28, 2008 2:45 am

Another day, another festival lineup announcement; this time the Voodoo Music Experience, scheduled for October 24-26 in New Orleans. No real surprises though, with Sasquatch’s R.E.M. joining Bumbershoot’s Stone Temple Pilots and Pemberton/Lollapalooza/Virgin Festival’s Nine Inch Nails. More »



Voodoo Music Experience Scheduled for October

Dan Gibson | April 28, 2008 2:45 am
Dan Gibson | April 28, 2008 2:45 am

Another day, another festival lineup announcement; this time the Voodoo Music Experience, scheduled for October 24-26 in New Orleans. No real surprises though, with Sasquatch’s R.E.M. joining Bumbershoot’s Stone Temple Pilots and Pemberton/Lollapalooza/Virgin Festival’s Nine Inch Nails. More »


You Can Start Comparing “Accelerate”‘s Chart Performance With That Of The Other R.E.M. Albums Now

Dan Gibson | April 3, 2008 11:30 am
Dan Gibson | April 3, 2008 11:30 am

georgeshouldstartlookingintosomejustformen.jpgGeorge Strait seems lined up for the top on next week’s album sales chart, but it seems like depressing me with an appearance on Today earlier this week paid off for R.E.M.–Accelerate will likely grab the No. 2 spot, according to the occasionally reliable projections over at HITS. The Matt Lauer-introduced clip, as well as more chart wonkery, below the cut.

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R.E.M. Has Critics Racing For Their Memories

noah | March 31, 2008 10:30 am
noah | March 31, 2008 10:30 am

accelerate.jpgFrom 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:

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noah | March 18, 2008 10:10 am
noah | March 18, 2008 10:10 am

Dear everyone getting all excited about the “Michael Stipe comes out” story: Um, this is news? Sure, he apparently told Spin that he’d “just never felt strongly enough about a particular relationship to say, ‘Yeah, he’s my boyfriend, that is what it is,'” but that claim would seem to be at least… More »


The New R.E.M. Accelerates Past Its Release Date To The Web

Dan Gibson | March 17, 2008 10:00 am
Dan Gibson | March 17, 2008 10:00 am

accelerate.jpgARTIST: R.E.M.
TITLE: Accelerate
RELEASE DATE: April 1, 2008
WEB DEBUT: March 15, 2008

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Overnight Somehow, R.E.M. Are Now Irish

Dan Gibson | March 14, 2008 12:15 pm
Dan Gibson | March 14, 2008 12:15 pm

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. More »



noah | March 14, 2008 10:30 am
noah | March 14, 2008 10:30 am

Brangelina makes its perhaps-inevitable SXSW appearance, and yet even the combined starpower of its two members can’t get an entourage into Wednesday night’s R.E.M. show at Stubb’s. More »