The compilation has an impressive lineup, but the circumstances around it are heartbreaking: Almost a year after his wife Melissa died suddenly, 21 artists have contributed exclusive tracks to Ciao My Shining Star: The Songs of Mark Mulcahy to help... CONTINUE READING THOM YORKE, MICHAEL STIPE, DINOSAUR CONTRIBUTE TO CIAO MY SHINING STAR: THE SONGS OF MARK MULCAHY»
Posted on June 25, 2009 (14 comments)
Tags: Dinosaur Jr. | Frank Black | Juliana Hatfield | Mark Mulcahy | Mercury Rev | Miracle Legion | R.E.M. | Radiohead | The National
The final version of R.E.M.'s 2001 LP Reveal featured twelve tracks, however the original master (known as Reveal 1.0) contained two songs that didn't make that final cut: "Free Form Jazz Jam," and the excellently lush ballad "Fascinating" which was... CONTINUE READING FISCHERSPOONER COVER OBSCURE R.E.M. SONG»
Posted on April 24, 2009 (8 comments)
Tags: Fischerspooner | R.E.M.
If you love R.E.M. and weren't at Carnegie Hall last night, you should probably do a better job at loving R.E.M. The evening was billed as a tribute to the Athenian eye-smilers, which meant career-spanning covers by everyone from Kyp... CONTINUE READING R.E.M. JOINS PATTI SMITH'S R.E.M. TRIBUTE»
Posted on March 12, 2009 in , (5 comments)
Tags: Glen Hansard | Jeff Mangum | Jimmy Fallon | Michael Stipe | Neutral Milk Hotel | Patti Smith | R.E.M. | The Swell Season
Well, maybe that's not entirely true. Despite the fact that Fallon mentions Stipe (nice recession beard) is his first guest with "nothing to promote," the R.E.M. frontman shows up with a bronze-cast camera sculpture and the two talk about tonight's... CONTINUE READING MICHAEL STIPE PROMOTES NOTHING ON JIMMY FALLON»
Posted on March 11, 2009 in (13 comments)
Tags: Jimmy Fallon | Michael Stipe | R.E.M.
Ryan's unadulterated idolization of the Gallaghers is rubbing off on him in all the wrong ways. Unless you're a hot beef-craving blogger (nullus?) who scours the web for this sort of stuff, in which case nevermind, Ryan you're doing great.... CONTINUE READING RYAN ADAMS DISSES R.E.M., THE KILLERS, NOT OASIS»
Posted on November 19, 2008 in (44 comments)
Tags: Oasis | R.E.M. | Ryan Adams | The Killers
R.E.M.'s frontman has designed a collector's edition polo for the holidays. The shirt, which depicts a crowd at a stadium concert, comes in three colors and costs 150€ (which converts to LOL in US dollars). Check it out at Lacoste.com... CONTINUE READING MICHAEL STIPE FOR LACOSTE»
Posted on November 10, 2008 (4 comments)
Tags: Michael Stipe | R.E.M. | The Decemberists
In case you didn't hear, Barack Obama won last night. If this came as great news, you likely found yourself laughing at that will.i.am hologram, checking out Fox News to see how depressed they were, and then wandering the East... CONTINUE READING R.E.M. CELEBRATE OBAMA VICTORY»
Posted on November 5, 2008 in (7 comments)
Tags: Barack Obama | Passion Pit | R.E.M.
Well, technically, of Montreal covered R.E.M.'s cover of the Clique's "Superman." The Texas group, led by songwriter Gary Zekley, recorded it first in 1969 (a very of Montreal year) and then R.E.M. popularized via Life's Rich Pageant in 1986. Regardless,... CONTINUE READING OF MONTREAL COVER R.E.M.»
Posted on November 3, 2008 in (9 comments)
Tags: of Montreal | R.E.M. | The Thermals
In the post about R.E.M's computer-animated video for "Mansized Wreath" (the one handled heavily by Toronto-based advertising agency Crush, Inc., who also handled "Hollow Man"), I mentioned that when discussing politics, it'd make sense to be a tad more human.... CONTINUE READING NEW R.E.M. VIDEO - "UNTIL THE DAY IS DONE"»
Posted on October 23, 2008 in (4 comments)
Tags: No Age | R.E.M.
When Fluxblog proprietor and Drive XV essayist Matthew Perpetua launched PopSongs 07-08, he gave it the tagline: "I'll write about every R.E.M. song, eventually." And eventually, he did (save Accelerate, which needs time and the 2008 election results for proper... CONTINUE READING IT'S THE END OF POP SONGS 07-08 AS WE KNOW IT»
Posted on September 11, 2008 (1 comments)
Tags: Absu | Passion Pit | R.E.M. | SXSW
In their video for Accelerate track "Man-Sized Wreath," R.E.M. ups the production value from their recent Vincent Moon clips to a computer animated world of heavy-hand political statement -- video game oil men, Tiananmen Square references, and billboard-sized shots of... CONTINUE READING NEW R.E.M. VIDEO - "MAN-SIZED WREATH"»
Posted on July 15, 2008 in (3 comments)
Tags: R.E.M.
R.E.M.'s doing that national tour with the National and Modest Mouse these days. And there has been a rather awesome development of late. We've highlighted some of the rarities spilling from the setlists, but none quite so rare as the... CONTINUE READING R.E.M. "FALL ON ME" IN CHICAGO WITH JOHNNY MARR»
Posted on June 11, 2008 in (26 comments)
Tags: Johnny Marr | R.E.M.
R.E.M.'s tour in support of the great Accelerate got under way this past Friday 5/23 in Burnaby (just outside Vancouver), and people are lovin' it. Reader Nick wrote in to tell us about a report he filed for Whitney: Wow,... CONTINUE READING R.E.M. KICK OFF TOUR IN VANCOUVER WITH SOME RARITIES»
Posted on May 27, 2008 in (11 comments)
Tags: R.E.M.
In 2004, R.E.M. and Bruce Springsteen took part in the Vote For Change tour, along with the Dixie Chicks, DMB, Jackson Browne, Pearl Jam, etc., to inspire folks to vote against George W. Bush. It didn't work, obviously, but four... CONTINUE READING STIPE GEEKS OUT AROUND THE BOSS, BUCK LEARNS "BORN TO RUN"»
Posted on April 30, 2008 in (11 comments)
Tags: Bruce Springsteen | R.E.M.
The skilled animators of Crush are behind this clip from the Athens trio everyone was buzzing about at SXSW. When we asked Matt Fluxblog to prematurely evaluate Accelerate he wrote of the tune: This one has the best fake-out in... CONTINUE READING NEW R.E.M. VIDEO - "HOLLOW MAN"»
Posted on April 22, 2008 in (4 comments)
Tags: R.E.M.
When's the last time you want to an actual record store? Like where you have to walk through a door and can't just click "download"? Yes, we live inside a blog, but record stores are pretty great. Brandon worked at... CONTINUE READING TOMORROW IS RECORD STORE DAY»
Posted on April 18, 2008 (33 comments)
Tags: Björk | Black Keys | Built To Spill | Dead Meadow | Death Cab For Cutie | Deerhunter | Grizzly Bear | Interpol | Prurient | R.E.M. | Regina Spektor | Stephen Malkmus | SXSW | Tapes 'N Tapes | The New Pornographers | Vampire Weekend | Young Widows
Great R.E.M. interview? Or the greatest R.E.M. interview? The Athenians' charm offensive is on full throttle between the La Blogs and the happy, sort of bashful turns on the Today show and last night's Colbert, but there was something extra... CONTINUE READING STEPHEN COLBERT USES R.E.M.'S ACCELERATE AS A COD PIECE»
Posted on April 3, 2008 in (14 comments)
Tags: R.E.M. | Stephen Colbert
A lot has been made of R.E.M.'s approach to announcing "they're back." Their work with Vincent Moon -- which we've see in official video and Take Away form already -- has been a major basis for the approach, and the... CONTINUE READING R.E.M. BRINGS LA BLOGOTHèQUE TO ATHENS»
Posted on March 31, 2008 in (5 comments)
Tags: R.E.M.
No longer ambiguous about his sexuality (or that of his bandmates), Michael Stipe can now afford to be ambiguous about his song selections. On Radio 1 Live Lounge recently, Stipe and Co. took on Editors' "Munich." The box percussion, toe... CONTINUE READING R.E.M. COVER EDITORS (AND VICE VERSA)»
Posted on March 28, 2008 in (8 comments)
Tags: Bruce Springsteen | Editors | R.E.M. | St. Vincent | Super Bowl | SXSW
After the other day's big news, that Mike Mills and Peter Buck are in fact heterosexual, we figured the R.E.M. cycle would slow down awhile. Not so. As promised, the band's made Accelerate available for full-album streaming on iLike, which... CONTINUE READING STREAM R.E.M.'S ACCELERATE ON ILIKE»
Posted on March 24, 2008 (7 comments)
Tags: R.E.M.
Michael Stipe is no longer the most obviously but still unofficially gay person in the world music. And we're celebrating that out coming by alerting you to R.E.M.'s filmic collab with Vincent Moon in the back of a car, VMPRWKND... CONTINUE READING R.E.M. DEMONSTRATES THAT "LIVING WELL IS THE BEST REVENGE" FOR LA BLOGOTHèQUE»
Posted on March 18, 2008 in (5 comments)
Tags: Bruce Springsteen | Peter Bjorn And John | R.E.M. | Super Bowl | Vincent Moon
It's something everyone seemed to already know -- i.e., note the, ok, maybe less-than-tender comments from this thread last week -- but post-SXSW, and on the eve of Accelerate's 4/1 release date, Stipe has finally made those longtime rumors official... CONTINUE READING MICHAEL STIPE NO LONGER TRAPPED IN THE CLOSET»
Posted on March 18, 2008 (53 comments)
Tags: Michael Stipe | R.E.M.
Between all the video we're posting and every other site's A/V archives, this year's trip to Austin's easily and obviously the most archived South By yet. As mentioned, we'll have the rest of our video clips throughout this week, but... CONTINUE READING HEAR NEW MMJ AND R.E.M. TUNES, PLUS STEREOGUM'S FRIDAY PARTY, AT NPR»
Posted on March 17, 2008 in (2 comments)
Tags: Bon Iver | Liam Finn | My Morning Jacket | R.E.M. | Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin | SXSW | The Weakerthans | The Whigs
While we were in NYC resting our legs for the upcoming Texan good times, thousands of music lovers went south for Langerado on the Big Cypress Indian Reservation. Looks like it was a hot, sweaty fun time down there. It... CONTINUE READING AT LANGERADO, PARTY LIKE IT'S 1995»
Posted on March 11, 2008 in (6 comments)
Tags: Beastie Boys | Blind Melon | Langerado | R.E.M.
