To kick off SXSW in style, I interviewed the whip-smart, calm & appropriately stripe-sleeved Michael Stipe.FYI: Surprise! I interspersed YOUR MOG QUESTIONS within the interview. (i.e. "Mogger Extraordinary Poems would like to know...") I'll be posting those in the next few weeks...Also as we wait for the April album release, I'm going to keep posting up longer clips of the whole interview...Til...
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"Where's My Jet Pack?" - Ryan McGuinness So as promised- I've got a few more Michael Stipe videos for you to check out. (Kudos to my buddy Eric for dutifully editing...). (IF YOU ARE READING THIS ON THE MOG HOME PAGE, PLEASE USE THE LINK BELOW TO GET TO THE FULL POST WHERE YOU CAN VIEW THE VIDEOS.)In this segment, Michael unwinds over coffee, chatting about millennial themes behind R.E.M's new ...
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R.E.M.'s new rock album is due April 1 and it's great. I've heard it, most of it really rocks and there's an energy and rawness. A lot of fans are going to be real happy. Here's a track off the album.
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While we were in Italia, hanging at our beach side hotel in Mira and in between sight seeing trips to Roma which is 45 minutes away, Michelle and I would watch MTV. The cool thing about MTV in Europe is unlike in the States they show actual videos. We saw some classic, some new ones and some guilty pleasures.As you might already have known, R.E.M. is huge in Europe. They're bigger and more po...
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Today comes the long awaited confirmation that R.E.M's Peter Buck and Michael Mills are straight. A play on the obsession media has with the band's frontman Michael Stipe's sexual orientation was announced today via press release and read: "R.E.M.'s Mike Mills and Peter Buck announced today that they are both, after years of awkward speculation, heterosexual, or "straight." Singer Michael Stipe...
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Treble's Top 50 Albums of 2008 and my Accelerate review can be found (click here) on treblezine.comR.E.M.AccelerateWarner Bros.2008It's been difficult being an R.E.M. fan during these past few years. When I mention this to friends and music enthusiast amigos they roll their eyes in disgust. Since when did R.E.M. get such a bad rap? Don't tell me it's all backlash because of "Shiny Happy People?...
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The new new video for "Supernatural Superserious" which features R.E.M. playing music in a Manhattan sex shop is here! OK, the sex shop isn't a dominant part of the video, but it certainly made quite a stir when it was filmed there. The video was directed by Vincent Moon and just uploaded today.
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Being an olds, I can still remember vividly the first flush of "that-is-fucking-genius" feeling that I heard on Murmur and the Chronic Town EP. REM over the last three decades - Geebus, can it be that long? - has consistently issued some of the best, sweetest, saddest, and occasionally hip-groovin' sounds out there. Which is absolutely amazing for a ROCK band of that age.I've seen the band thre...
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Barack Obama is gaining ground! The Phillies are finally out of the metaphorical basement of the MLB! And (most importantly), R.E.M. are kickass again! I can die happy!I heard Supernatural Superserious on 104.5 fm the other morning, and was really just surprised that Michael Stipe & co. can still write a damn good song, especially after the bleh they've been putting out lately. Great riff, g...
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After two consecutive albums dominated by mid-tempo fare, R.E.M. gets back to its stripped-down, fast-paced rock roots on "Accelerate," due this week via Warner Bros. The 11-track set, which gets in and out in a lightning-quick 34 minutes and change, is led by the single "Supernatural Superserious."
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