The Kinks are back in the studio recording their first album of new music since 1993's Phobia. Ray Davies told Billboard that he's been working with Mick Avory, the original drummer for the group, and later members Jim Rodford and Ian Gibbons.Davies said, "I've been in the studio with a couple of the Kinks, actually. "We've got four, five new songs...and I'm just sort of getting them motivate...
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Michael Stipe isn't exactly camera shy. To see what I mean check out his doe-eyed mug on "indiepixie's post.":http://mog.com/indiepixie/blog_post/154132Stipe and the rest of R.E.M. will now release the 192 page book R.E.M. HELLO consisting of pictures taken by Seattle-based photographer "David Belisle":http://www.davidbelisle.com/ on June 1st. Of the 192 pages, 175 of them are color and black &...
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And I'm not dreaming.Let's start from the beginning. Last Thursday, I headed to an opening of Ryan McGinley's photography in Soho, innocently with my good friend Spyro. Some background: Ryan McGinley is an ingenue- his photos both gritty and ethereal. This show- was dosed in blissed out sunshine- of celestial beings- afloat in liquid, suspended in air- battling with gravity- lost in fields. He ...
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Best selling author Brad Meltzer's new book The Book Of Lies will be released on September 2nd. Before you ask: Who is Brad Meltzer? What does Meltzer's book have to do with music? The Book Of Lies, described as a "suspenseful, code-breaking drama," will be the first novel ever released with a companion CD. So while you read, music plays in the background, like a soundtrack to the book.(I h...
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Madison Square GardenR.E.M. is "pretty much a great live band," Michael Stipe once said (i.e. in our SXSW interview earlier this year). Said words echoed in my head, high expectations pulsed in my veins, as I traipsed in to Madison Square Garden this Thursday.To be concise and admitedly redundant, I'd agree the show was indeed 'great.' But since I'm not one to be a) redundant b) concise and yo...
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R.E.M. is offering a new video for their song "Living Well Is The Best Revenge" off of their soon to be released album ??Accelerate??(Warner Bros.) as a free download at "THIS LOCATION":CH??Cover Art for Accelerate?? There has been a lot of buzz on MOG about R.E.M. in recent days with "Mogger Indiepixie's recent interview with R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe":IP. If you haven't already, be sure t...
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On Saturday October 10, The Times Magazine insert with the The Times newspaper will feature an iTunes gift card giving readers the chance to obtain an entire R.E.M. album on iTunes for free.The code provided on the gift card with Saturday's newspaper/ magazine initially gives access via timesonline.co.uk/rem to ten R.E.M. songs on iTunes (this site also features an interview with Michael Stipe ...
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You always hear stories of musicians getting their gear jacked while on the road. Seldom do these stories turn out on a positive note, so R.E.M.'s Peter Buck is one lucky dude. Following an R.E.M. tour stop in Helsinki, Finland on September 9th Buck's prized Rickenbacker guitar went missing. The band is currently on tour in Europe behind their latest album Accelerate. Ten days later Buck was r...
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Tomorrow promises to be historic regardless of who wins the Presidential Election.For the first time in US history we may have a woman Vice President if the outcome favors John McCain and Sarah Palin. On the other hand, if the outcome favors Barack Obama and Joe Biden we will have our first sitting black President.Whomever is elected you can be sure that the fundamental societal changes that ar...
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R.E.M., Beastie Boys, Phil Lesh & Friends are the main headliners for the sixth annual Langerado Music Festival. This year's festival will be held March 6th-8th at southern Florida's Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation, perhaps best known for holding Phish's millenium concert. This is the first year Langerado will be a full-scale camping event. In years past the festival was held as a day f...
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I've been in Austin, TX for less than 24 hours and I've managed to bump into R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe on the street, rock out to hyped act White Denim and the Minus 5 and catch a ride from coolest Apache Indian/cab driver ever. All this and I haven’t even picked up my badge for the thing. But the craziness that is SXSW and the weirdness that is Austin is only beginning...On my connecting flight t.
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Iconic rockers R.E.M. are getting ready to release a double live CD/DVD of songs getting a road test prior to their 2008 Accelerate tour. The collection, Live At The Olympia In Dublin, features a wopping 39 songs and will be unleashed October 27th.We've got the first video from the album for you. Check out "Living Well Is The Best Revenge" here:Living Well Is The Best RevengeR.E.M. Live in
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R.E.M. have created an interactive site where fans dictate and mash-up the material. The site feature 12 screens which are fan submitted edits of footage provided by the band. You have to see this to understand!Check it out:http://www.supernaturalsuperserious.com/If your feeling adventurous: download all 12 clips, remix, re-edit, then post to the Youtube group:http://youtube.com/group/snssand w...
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REM, Rage Against the Machine and the Verve will headline Scotland's biggest festival, T in the Park. The festival will take place July 11t-13th in Balado, Kinross. Like Glastonbury this year the festival will also herald the Kings of Leon to the main stage. Other acts confirmed include Interpol, Chemical Brothers and the Prodigy.T in the Park lineup:REMRage Against The MachineThe VerveKings Of...
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hey folks,if you haven't seen this, i'm pretty psyched about it.mogger extraordinaire, indiepixie got an interview with michael stipe from r.e.m. she'll be doing on behalf of mog.she wants to use YOUR questions for him.post the questions you have for michael stipe at:http://mog.com/indiepixie/blog_post/147978
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