R.E.M.’s music is featured prominently throughout Season 2 of the award-winning hit series, available now exclusively on Hulu Alt-rock pioneers R.E.M. and the team behind FX’s critically acclaimed, award-winning hit series The Bear have partnered to release a full-length music video for “Strange Currencies (Remix)”: The visual combines footage from R.E.M.’s Road Movie (documenting their 1995 tour) plus exclusive clips and behind-the-scenes footage …
REM vocalist Michael Stipe still feels the music after all these years. Several times here his face clenches as arrows of truth and excellence pierce him. He’s old and appears a little stern on camera, but he can still live inside a song and emote when lyrics and melody connect. He’s still the voice of …
Michael Stipe is back with his first song released since REM. Attention must be paid.
Mr. Kipp – Do you have any latter-day thoughts about Guadalcanal Diary? Their music may have aged better than the REM of the same period. Perhaps I’m only enjoying it because I hadn’t heard it in 30 years and wasn’t listening closely the first time. Sincerely, Ricky in Enumclaw I’ve loved their “Always Saturday” from …
34 years ago today, REM’s Chronic Town EP was released and it simply changed the whole landscape of indie-rock, college-radio, clubs, touring, fanzines – it inspired a whole host of imitators (god help us!) but also tons of bands that sounded absolutely nothing like them (such as SST bands). During the first half of the …
Dude, you just know “Monster” — arguably R.E.M.’s best LP ever — was influenced by Peter Buck’s time spent living in Seattle, way back in the early-1994 day. Why, I’ll even wager that Kurt Cobain — frisky secret Japanophile — told R.E.M. to visually represent themselves for the “Crush With Eyeliner” video with a wild …
Seattle’s intimate Sunset Tavern was the place to be Friday and Saturday nights (Sept. 22 & 23). Officially this was two nights of fun in honor of the release of the new Young Fresh Fellows album Tiempo De Lujo. What it really was was a big party with the YFF headlining two shows with many …
Was saddened to hear that REM had announced they were breaking up. Sad that they wouldn’t be playing again? Uh, no. I cant remember the last time they were absolutely essential. Decent stuff, sure sure, but not the break down the doors/get in line @ Tower records variety. Sad that they felt the need to …
Hearing about R.E.M.’s withdrawal from active duty was like being reminded that it’s no longer the 90s. It’s not like the band hasn’t been active, but who can tell me the name of their hits off “Collapse into Now”? Back in ’83, I recall the first review I wrote on them. From a musical era …
Yesterday, September 21, 2011, legendary rock band REM announced they were calling it quits. As a result, I was asked to write a reflection about REM. Being a fan, I was more than willing to do so. The first song I heard by REM was “Radio Free Europe” back in the spring of 1983. I …
http://youtu.be/qAkubiZhly4 “To our Fans and Friends: As R.E.M., and as lifelong friends and co-conspirators, we have decided to call it a day as a band. We walk away with a great sense of gratitude, of finality, and of astonishment at all we have accomplished. To anyone who ever felt touched by our music, our deepest …
Thanks to Karl Clifton-Soderstrom for this. Funny how this recent Decemberists song sounds like an old classic from REM:
. Click here for Paste Magazine’s Review of Collapse Into Now by Stephen M. Deusner . .
The best of the Sesame Street vids:
“Weren’t Young Fresh Fellows more important in the grand scheme of things than Nirvana? And wasn’t Popllama more significant than SubPop? – East Portland Blog Critic’s Roundtable, Part 1 (This conversation has four parts.) Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 Through the 1980s a couple of different strains ran through …
As with every album since Monster, it’s as bland as an accountant’s tie collection, but it still has Michael Stipe’s voice on it, and that’s a good thing. Isn’t it?