Familiar as you may be with The Mail On Sunday's tendency to give away a covermount compilation CD by a charting or ageing pop band every week, The Times have now joined in on this practice, in giving away some of REM's new live record, as well as some of their hits past and present.»
From peers like Michael Stipe, Dinosaur Jr and Frank Black to musicians of the next generation - notably Thom Yorke and The National - this collection of new covers, due Sep 14, is basically an indie nerd's dream.»
Spare a thought for Madonna's veteran flaps; they've been dislodged from the number one spot by Scooter this week»
Estelle might think Britain dead to her, considering the States her home nowadays, but that’s not stopped single-buying sorts of the land gobbling up copies of her ‘American Boy’ effort, which remains at number one»
R.E.M. will play an inshop (reclaim the language) at Apple’s flagship place of business in London next week»
R.E.M. have announced the first details of the UK leg of their forthcoming European tour.»
She does it well and everything but, by golly, does Duffy have to be quite so retro? ‘Mercy’ sounds like bad sixties wallpaper, and does its Lulu-esque thing at number one this week»
Constantly struggling against the man, even when he comes in the form of a tramp-juice-sponsored rock festival, Rage Against the Machine have leaked the line-up for this year’s T in the Park.»
R.E.M.’s first UK show of the year will be a rather grand affair, the band calling in at the Royal Albert Hall next month to help raise money for the ICA.»
After confirming the spring release of Accelerate back in January, REM have announced the names of the tracks to feature on their new record.»
The first and second sets of bands, solo artists, acts have been confirmed for annual mindustry mugathon South by Southwest.»
REM will release a new record in April.»
REM are to begin work on their new album in Canada next week, alongside Bloc Party and Kasabian producer Jacknife Lee...»
...only for three or so songs, mind...»
REM singer Michael Stipe has told journalists to quit portraying his mate Thom Yorke as a sour-faced ol' misery...»
Peter Buck of REM has joined forces with Robert Fripp of King Crimson to form Slow Music. The new band also features former Ministry drummer Bill Rieflin, who has manned REM's kit since the departure of Bill Berry in 2003...»
Chris Martin and Michael Stipe, singers in the mightily MOR bands Coldplay and REM respectively, are to team up for a charity record to raise money for Hurrican Katrina victims (anyone see Horizon last night? Shit be messed up)...»
So you've just come off stage. You're sweating, but you don't notice: the buzz is just too strong. So you kick back for five. Take on some beer or maybe press some backstage flesh; in a non-sexual sense, of course. Unless, that is, you're Michael Stipe. Then you blaze off in your motor and cook someone dinner.»
A slew of delcious new music DVDs from Directors Label this September.»
REM's Michael Stipe and pop-gother Marilyn Manson are both set to take a break from the music business.»
DiS’ favourite bedtime read, The Book of British Hit Singles & Albums, published by the boffins at Guinness World Records today release their annual list of the Top 100 Most Successful Acts of all Time today.»
The Future Soundtrack for America, an anti-George Bush LP is to be released this summer in an attempt to raise funds for progressive groups who advocate political change.»
Hear Ye! Hear Ye! REM hath anounceth the honorable musicians they hath chosen to accompany them on the adventures that shall occureth on their summer tour...»
EXCLUSIVE! Illness forces cancellation of Sheffield and Glasgow shows, their first in nine years.»
Following in the footsteps of David Bowie and The Stereophonics, former alternative rock legends R.E.M. will be headlining this year's Isle of Wight Festival on Sunday, 12th June.»
Political concerts on an unprecedented scale were today confirmed, with bills mixing superstars such as REM, Bruce Springsteen, James Taylor and Dixie Chicks with unexpectedly DiS-friendly acts like Death Cab For Cutie, Bright Eyes, Jurassic 5 and My Morning Jacket.»
Everyone's favourite emotionally scarred singer-songer writer, Chris Carrabba, AKA Dashboard Confessional, is to release his versions of songs from REM's 'Automatic For The People' later this month.»
Feeling down? Want that perfect record to soundtrack your misery? Well, listeners of 6Music can help...»
Michael Stipe has been speaking with Virgin Radio about the follow up to 2001's 'Reveal'.»
REM's Peter Buck stated on US radio last week that the band may call it a day as early as next year.»
Warners have released more details about the REM best of due out next month.»
Police raid Glastonbury counterfeiters in Huddersfield. Bootleggers selling illegal compilations, including live tracks from festival headliners Radiohead and REM, were raided in the early hours of Monday July 7. Police, along with various trading standards and copyright theft officials swooped on the fact»
Ticket priority for next year's Glastonbury Festival is to be given to people who missed out on tickets for the this year. Also Eavis wants to make the Pyramid stage a permanent structure. In an interview with BBC Radio Bristol, Glastonbury Festival founder and organiser Michael Eavis rev»
It has been confirmed that all 85,000 Glastonbury tickets have sold out within 24hrs of going on sale. This is the fastest that the tickets have ever sold, and it comes with one of the best lineups in recent years at Worthy Farm. Confirmed to play are Radiohead, REM and The Flaming Lip»
With the summer festival season getting closer, more bands are confirming their attendance with almost two weeks left before tickets go on sale on March the 31st. All around the now usual official veto on the festival, followed by»
Glasto is Go! But tickets ain't just yet... We've heard warnings from the officials at Glastonbury that fake tickets are circulating. Tickets are not officially on sale until March 31st for this summer’s event, which is taking place from June 27,28 and 29. Someone, somewhere, is making a killing as »
After an all night meeting with representatives from the Avon & Somerset Police, local residents and Mendip District Council, Glastonbury has once again been granted a licence The meeting, which finished in the early hours of this morning (if they'd started earlier yesterday surely they have finished less »
Studio activity has started up again for REM back in Vancouver with work on a new album, set to be released by early next year. The band's manager Bertie Downs announced over at remhq the other day that "the band is back in the studio here in»
The 10th Anniversary T in The Park line-up is slowly but surely being announced.. Taking place on July 12th + 13th, headlined by REM (13th) and dem whores Coldplay (who recently announced they'll be headlining V2003). Also *rumoured* to be playing are: iDLEWiLD, »
It's been quite a while since we last heard from PJ Harvey but after a bit of looking for info on the next album (there is no info yet, grrr!) we've found the following.. According to Murmurs.com, an REM fansite, the band's managem»
Eels frontman Mark Everett, better known as E, has written the score for the upcoming Billy Bob Thornton movie 'Levity' due in theaters next year, and is working on a new "polka" Eels album Levity follows the story of a parolee (Billy Bob) who, after killing a teenage store clerk in a raid gone b»
Over pretentious rock act REM are to be parodied... with their approval! The band are to join the likes of Kid Rock & U2 by appearing on smash hit cartoon series The Simpsons. Although details are few and far between, it is know that the episode will be shown, at some point, nex»
REM guitarist Peter Buck, pictured above in the centre, has been arrested on arrival at Heathrow Airport on a charge of air rage against 2 members of the flight crew. The band arrived in England in preparation for their South Africa Freedom Day gig in Trafalgar Square next Sunday, April 29th»
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