R.E.M.’s Accelerate will stream on iLike, the iTunes-tracker-slash-Facebook-app that I uninstalled long ago, beginning on March 24. More »
R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe has been spotted around New York City while hobbling around on crutches, the result of “a go-carting accident about two weeks ago,” according to the New York Post. (The picture of Stipe here was taken at an event at Big Apple auction house Sotheby’s last night.) More »
R.E.M.’s brand-new clip for “Supernatural Superserious”–the first single off Accelerate, a.k.a. the band’s attempt to bring back the people who abandoned it after Around The Sun–is by no means a groundbreaking clip (although the attendant Web site, which blows out the footage that the band shot… More »
Which ’08 prez candidate did R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe recently claim to be weirdly, conflicted-ly smitten with after a late-night TV appearance? The one who’s hellbent on denying him his civil rights, among other hilarious schemes to upend our way of life once he beats the lady or the African-American guy.
Is former R.E.M. drummer Bill Berry going to tour with the band this spring? A “reliable source” who called into an Atlanta radio station sure thinks so! More »
Is former R.E.M. drummer Bill Berry going to tour with the band this spring? A “reliable source” who called into an Atlanta radio station sure thinks so! More »
There are two days of first-round voting to go in our Worst Album Cover Of The Year Tournament–the field so far is here–and today we turn our attentions back to the Anatomically Incorrect Bracket, where we find two entries that show the downside of not keeping up with your hygienic routines. Will Hell Rell’s mouth of lead chomp its way through whatever bacteria is making its way across Michael Stipe’s bald pate? It’s up to you to decide!
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, “the most depressing YouTube tribute video in history?” Well, yes. But it’s also kind of hot.
Like the most depressing YouTube tribute video in history, R.E.M.’s new single “debuts” tonight on Anderson Cooper 360, synched up to “footage from areas around the world where environmental crises are not just theories but are happening in real time.” More »
Like the most depressing YouTube tribute video in history, R.E.M.’s new single “debuts” tonight on Anderson Cooper 360, synched up to “footage from areas around the world where environmental crises are not just theories but are happening in real time.” More »
