Officials say a new computer system at Long Island's Jones Beach theater will help them do a better job of tracking approaching storms. The development follows a close call with a lightning strike during an R.E.M. concert at the outdoor theater three weeks ago. State parks regional director Ronald Foley says procedures there also are being evaluated. Mr. Foley says that when the lightning
It was a fortuitous typo for the Fred Meyer retail chain. This spring, an employee intending to order a special CD-DVD edition of R.E.M.'s latest release "Accelerate" inadvertently entered the "LP" code instead. Soon boxes of the long-playing vinyl discs showed up at several stores.
After a close call with a lightning strike at the R.E.M. concert at the Jones Beach theater three weeks ago, state parks officials are installing computers there so staff can better track approaching storms.
Today's reader loves R.E.M., Andy Warhol, comics and his name rhymes! Does it get any better than that? Read on: Real name: Steve Reeves Screen name: Pandabob Why I chose my screen name: Back in the '90s I tried
As we reported yesterday , human rights organization Amnesty International has gathered together a slew of excellent bands -- such as R.E.M., the National, Vampire Weekend, and Justice -- to film public service announcements in support of their Small Places Tour, which marks the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The concerts, which are to take place from Sept. 10
Don Dixon and I go way back, even though we've never met. As a producer, his name is on some of my favorite albums during the years I worked at WUSC: R.E.M.'s Murmur and Reckoning , The Smithereens' Especially For You , Wednesday Week's, What We Ha d, Dumptruck's, ** Positively Dumptru ck** and Fetchin' Bones' Cabin Flounder , to name a few.
In a critical post about a new search engine awkwardly-named Cuil , the folks at popular blog TechCrunch posted a screen grab of a Cuil search for "TechCrunch" and said: "And I have no idea who that person is next to the results for our 'About' section." Why it is none other than Shanghai's biggest R.E.M. fan, Sam Flemming, head honcho of Internet Word of Mouth research and consulting firm
If there's one thing we here at SPIN.com like more than rocking out, it's making the world a better place to live in. Luckily, Amnesty International -- as well as some of our favorite bands -- agrees: from Sept. 10-Dec. 10, bands such as R.E.M., the National, Vampire Weekend, and Justice will participate in Amnesty International's Small Places Tour , which marks the 60th anniversary of A.I.'s
Michael Stipe, singer of US band R.E.M., performs on the main stage during the 33rd Paleo Festival, in Nyon, Switzerland, Sunday , July 27, 2008. The Paleo open-air music festival, the largest in Switzerland, with expected 225,000 spectators in six days, runs from July 23 to 28, 2008.
R.E.M. frontman MICHAEL STIPE is proud for his legendary band to be known as "geeky", and insists they will never be cool. The rocker has admitted it will never
Despite all we've read, seen and heard about R.E.M., there are a bunch of things fans never get to see: the band seconds before they take the stage, for example. Michael Stipe's makeup removal after a show. Peter Buck's father-daughter
Talk about the passion. R.E.M. - written off for dead by many critics after releasing three consecutive albums that failed to live up to commercial expectations - added yet another chapter to the year's most convincing comeback story during its thoroughly entertaining show on Saturday.
R.E.M. is said to have lost its spontaneity on its last album, Around the Sun , but the band has received widespread praise for finding new energy in Accelerate, its latest release.
R.E.M. mdash; written off for dead by many critics after releasing three consecutive albums that failed to live up to commercial expectations mdash; added yet another chapter to the year's most convincing comeback story during its thoroughly entertaining show on Saturday night.
R.E.M. spent much of the past year working on its 14th studio album, "Accelerate." The Athens, Ga. Concert listings | Event listings Performing arts listings
In a habit thankfully not dangerous to our health, SPIN.com has been happy to premiere videos this week from both R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe and Cat Power , who have filmed spots for human-rights group Amnesty International. More on SPIN.com: Video: Exclusive: Michael Stipe in PSA for Amnesty International's Small Places Tour Video: Exclusive: Cat Power PSA for Amnesty
Shares in Warner Music Group fell as much as 12 percent in early trading on Monday after Goldman Sachs analysts' downgraded the company's stock to a "sell" rating from "neutral."
Shares of Warner Music Group Corp. fell 7 percent Monday after a Goldman Sachs analyst downgraded the stock, predicting the company will find it difficult to further increase its market share.
It's not just the name that's different for Conor Oberst, whose latest album is the first credited to him rather than his one-man-band name Bright Eyes. It's his entire outlook.
R.E.M. was caught between Barack and a hard rain. So singer Michael Stipe knew exactly what to do Thursday night at Xcel Energy Center. ???I??™ve been busting out to say this,??? he told the crowd a half-hour into the nearly two-hour set. ???Something historic happened in this building two nights ago.
Most longtime followers of R.E.M. can pinpoint the moment they first started to lose faith in the venerable alt-rock pioneers, whether it was their initial ventures from the clubs into arenas or the 1997 departure of drummer Bill Berry or "Shiny Happy People." And only the hardest of hardcore apologists could forgive 2004's dreary "Around the Sun."
After a four-year album and world tour absence, R.E.M. is back on the road to promote the band's latest release, "Accelerate." The group will perform at 7 p.m. today at the United Center, 1901 W. Madison St., Chicago.
Guitarists everywhere will be thrilled with Alfred's release of these two hugely popular album-matching folios. Alfred proudly introduces R.E.M.: Accelerate and Rush: Moving Pictures .
1 Old St. Mary's Episcopal Church (R.E.M. Steeple) Photo by Lesley Onstott 2 University Golf Course Photo by Lesley Onstott 3 Clocktower in Five Points Photo by Jim Diffly 4 Butts-Mehre Heritage Hall Photo by Jim Diffly 5 Fine Arts Department of Th
As you've probably read on our site over the last week, human rights organization Amnesty International has gathered together a slew of excellent bands -- such as R.E.M., the National, Cat Power, and Justice -- for the Small Places Tour, which marks the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The concerts, which are to take place from Sept. 10 - Dec. 10, are intended
The company's digital revenues jumped 39.3% to $156 million, surpassing analyst expectations in the face of the industry's rocky transition to online distribution. Strong international sales and higher digital music revenue narrowed losses for Warner Music Group Corp. in the fiscal third quarter, surpassing analyst expectations in the face of the industry's rocky transition to digital
I haven't seen R.E.M. since they played a free show in downtown Toronto seven years ago. That show was a promotion for their second post-Bill Berry album, Reveal, also known as the first confirmation that Up's myriad weaknesses were no fluke.
I've seen the set design on the tour so I'm pretty sure the band would've been down with it ??“ if, indeed, the whole thing wasn't some ingenious CGI miracle ??“ but R.E.M. was very nearly in danger of being upstaged by a rainbow last night.
Years from now, it's conceivable some earnest fans and critics might attempt to rehabilitate, in hindsight, the trio of iffy albums with which R.E.M. turned the corner on the last millennium. But don't hold your breath waiting for Peter Buck to grant his approval.
DENVER -- Onstage Tuesday night here, R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe was ebullient. Dapper in a suit and tie and singing with fluidity and ease, he gave in to the music like a much younger version of himself.
NEW YORK -- Michael Stipe thinks the music video is a "dead medium" -- but the R.E.M. singer still wants the band's songs to be accompanied by some kind of visuals.
Hi all, Korina Lopez here. Here are some bits from around the Web: - R.E.M. has just released an EP, Live in London, available on iTunes. Listen to classics such as Man on the Moon, West of the Fields and
In a lot of ways, the R.E.M. story ended with 1996's underrated New Adventures in Hi-Fi . That was the final R.E.M. disc to feature drummer Bill Berry, and in retrospect, Berry brought a lot more to the band than simply his drumming. But that hasn't stopped R.E.M from awkwardly furthering the plot.
Watch videos by Natasha Bedingfield, Len, U2 and more! Watch videos by Madonna, Tupac, R.E.M., and more! Watch videos from AC/DC, Nirvana, Aerosmith and more great rockers.
Take four of my favourite musicians ?? Scott McCaughey (Young Fresh Fellows, The Minus 5), Steve Wynn (The Dream Syndicate, Gutterball), Peter Buck (R.E.M.) and Linda Pitmon (a great drummer who I've twice been accused of flirting with despite the close proximity of her boyfriend, Wynn) ?? and have them make an entire album of baseball-related songs, and I'll admit that it would be almost
Hey, hey -- tomorrow I leave for Lebowski Fest, and I'm pretty jazzed about it. (My bedside reading this week has been I'm a Lebowski, You're a Lebowski.) Let's just say I'll be experimenting with some new technology in Louisville,
American Bach Soloists' summer chamber music festival comes to San Francisco next week, with a huge, varied three-program lineup featuring "artistic spotlights," twilight offerings and "main event" performances.
If you weren't amongst the lucky revelers taking in R.E.M.'s much-anticipated SXSW show this past March in Austin, TX, you can finally catch the Spin cover boys live in the Lone Star State with special preview footage of Accelerate track "Hollow Man," performed live for PBS' program Austin City Limits. Telling of the benchmark quartet's return to their jangle-rock roots, frontman
May years after their rise from college radio, the band from Athens, Georgia resurfaces with Accelerate. Fans that had hoped this new release will be a successful come back may get their wis
Remember when I went to see R.E.M. perform on Austin City Limits? Well, that episode premieres May 24, and ACL's website has posted some nifty video, including the band's performance of Supernatural Superserious. (This was actually R.E.M.'s second performance of
R.E.M. will be performing in Vancouver, May 23 at Deer Lake Park and in Toronto, June 8 at the Molson Amphitheatre. Tickets are on sale at www.ticketmaster.ca .
Warner Music Group Corp., whose artists include R.E.M., Madonna and Green Day, said Thursday that higher costs and a shift to digital music resulted in a wider second-quarter loss and it suspended dividends.
If "The Fall" proves anything, it's this: The music-video auteur lives! What a shame, then, that this epic extravagance arrives about 20 years after the heyday of stylish-yet-vapid, MTV-driven filmmaking. Director Tarsem Singh is best known for making the St. Sebastian-obsessed video to R.E.M.'s greatest hit ?? 1991's "Losing My Religion" ?? and for giving Jennifer Lopez a pre-J.Lo leg up in the
Leaks can be a good things for fans, aside from the obvious advantage of getting the leaked tracks, it sometimes means they'll be able to legitimately get the full album sooner than expected. Such is the case with Weezer who have moved the release of their new album up.
When R.E.M. took the stage in the waning moments of a Jones Beach lightning storm late Saturday night, it was a scientific fact: There was electricity in the air.
R.E.M. is America's U2. These guys are our big, bold modern rock band that somehow transcended genre and ended up on classic rock radio smack in the middle of Tom Petty
MANSFIELD, Mass. ?? Bands who haven??™t been around as long as R.E.M. are getting judged on whether they??™ve ???still got??? what they had all those years ago, whereas it seems an inept question in R.E.M.??™s case ?? particularly after they tore through the speedy ???Living Well Is the Best Revenge,??? from this year??™s Accelerate album, to open their show last night at the Comcast Center.
Within seconds of taking the stage at Stubbs BBQ during the South By Southwest music conference three months ago, R.E.M. went for the jugular. The legendary band out of Athens, Ga., hit the audience in the gut and stayed there as the group delivered tracks from its latest album, the
Finally, after about a decade of somber, shapeless, atmospheric keyboard noodling, R.E.M. has charged up the guitars again. On its new album, Accelerate , the veteran band returns to the high-octane rock and wordy, politically sharp songs that cemented its fame more than 20 years ago.
Michael Stipe is the vocal and visual centerpiece of R.E.M. But it's guitarist and tunesmith Peter Buck who's been doing most of the talking with the press - and lots of behind-the-scenes planning - for the group's current album and tour, which lands 'em at the Mann Wednesday with noteworthy support acts Modest Mouse and the National.
NEW YORK ?? This is the danger of playing doorman at a new arena in your home state, the perils of delivering a five-star show on Opening Night there. This is the misfortune of letting Pearl Jam and R.E.M. beat you to the Madison Square Garden stage by a few weeks.
TODAY J.J. GREY & MOFRO 9 p.m. in Blueberry Hill's Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Boulevard. $22. 314-727-4444. J.J. Grey has been labeled a roots musician because he incorporates blues, R&B, gospel, folk and rock influences in his work.
Think fast. R.E.M. has banished the quiet, dream-like mood of their last two records and is about to unleash the hard, sharp-eyed "Accelerate," their first album in four years.
R.E.M. has banished the quiet, dream-like mood of their last two records and is about to unleash the hard, sharp-eyed ???Accelerate,??? their first album in four years.
Okay, just a video, but still March 20, 2008 - R.E.M. are gearing up for the April 1st release of their new album, Accelerate , by releasing a free version of their latest video entitled "Living Well Is The Best Revenge."
AUSTIN, Texas -- You'll usually find R.E.M. playing arenas and esteemed concert halls. But this week, the rock hall of famers were among the acts trying to catch a break and artists looking to build their audience at the sprawling South by Southwest music festival.
It's hosted by The Chad Sipes Stereo, who will be -- ahem -- "reconstructing" R.E.M.'s 1985 album Fables of the Reconstruction in its entirety. By Aaron Jentzen.
Yep, he??™s gay! After years of speculation and innuendo, the sexual ambiguous lead singer for the rock band R.E.M, Michael Stipe , has decided to come out more publicly as a gay artist.
Saturday night, Athens legend and widely influential alternative rock band R.E.M. played the last American show of its world tour of the band's 14th album, Accelerate. The opening acts consisted of indie rock bands Modest Mouse and The National. Because of the radical difference in the musical styles of all three bands, Atlanta's Lakewood Amphitheatre was packed with eager fans of all ages
Michael Stipe thinks the music video is a ''dead medium'' -- but the R.E.M. singer still wants the band's songs to be accompanied by some kind of visuals.
Michael Stipe, lead singer of R.E.M., spent a great deal of time explicating on Thursday night, good-naturedly turning Madison Square Garden into a lecture hall.
R.E.M. called its latest album Accelerate, in tribute to its brisk tempos and brief running time. But considering the way it reverses the flagging vitality of 2004's Around the Sun, the band might as well have called the new record Defibrillate.
As if spooning sugar into its British beverage sorta-namesake, this year's T in the Park has a pretty sweet lineup, with a nice balance of established legends and killer newcomers.
NEW YORK June 20, 2008, 01:20 pm ET ?· Michael Stipe thinks the music video is a "dead medium" ?? but the R.E.M. singer still wants the band's songs to be accompanied by some kind of visuals.
BURBANK, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 06/20/08 -- In keeping with its theme of giving fans an advance peek of everything related to its latest album "Accelerate," best-selling rock band R.E.M. aired footage from the forthcoming video of its new single, "Man-Sized Wreath" at the band's sold-out show at Madison Square Garden on June 19th.
Plus: Gossip, Akon, Pete Rock, Editors, Brakes The Doctor Loft 05:00 festival in Castell?? d'Emp??ries, Spain starts early: 5 a.m., to be exact (and true to its name). But what could possibly get folks to the Empuriabrava marina area that early on the morning of July 6? How about a lineup that includes R.E.M., Iggy & the Stooges, Common, Akon, the Gossip, Brakes, Editors, Luciano, Felix
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.
NEW ORLEANS - Rapper Lil Wayne is the latest addition to the lineup for this year's Voodoo Experience in the rapper's native New Orleans. The musical celebration will feature dozens of acts on six stages in October.
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