h1. Here's my new baby... Thus far we're very happy together... he'll take me where I want to go, keep me in touch with those I care about & looks all sorts of pretty in MOGOrange. Got 29 days to see if we're a match made in heaven or bound for ruin.Anybody else got an *enVous LG cellular device* ?!? Anybody else got a cellular device they love dearly that I should look into if things with my...
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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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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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"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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Ever wonder what goes on in the mind of Mr. Stipe? Well I've got another clip here from the interview with Michael Stipe during SXSW where Michael Stipe talks about his dreamworld and the song "Sing For The Submarine." Since Accelerate was just released April 1st, it's pretty interesting insight.{PLEASE LINK TO FULL POST TO SEE VIDEO}The beginning of the interview, Michael's eye kinda drift off...
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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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So we've been holding out on you....saving the best stuff for last.Here is BY FAR my favorite clip from the Stipe Interview. Here we had been talking for about 45 minutes and he was clearly comfortable....(CLICK ON FULL POST TO SEE VIDEO)I ask him a question from Extraordinary Poems...(excellent q Chica!) and he ends up going on a hilarious tangent..... involving Cher, Vomit, NY Times, and jew...
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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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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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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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"Hollow Man," the second single from R.E.M.'s new album Accelerate, premiered exclusively on MySpace TV on Wednesday, April 23rd. The video for "Hollow Man" was created by Crush Inc. - a cutting edge graphic-design and production studio based in Toronto. R.E.M front man Michael Stipe had this to say about the innovativeclip..."I wanted Hollow Man to be a piece that creates a chaotic universe th...
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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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