Accelerate is patchy at best, with only the blaring finale, ‘I’m Gonna DJ’, really catching the attention.
Talking to this writer early last year in his capacity as...
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The former R.E.M. frontman honours the late David Bowie
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Read More Michael Stipe tell politicians to "go fuck yourselves".
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The first REMTV trailer has hit the ‘net and has us drooling in anticipation of the MTV documentary, which will also feature as part of a six-DVD box-set that gathers together serious amounts of archive material and drops on Friday November 21.
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Customers will be able to listen to the album 72 hours before its release
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You can download, remix and upload 'It Happened Today', taken from the band's upcoming album
Read More Check out the video for 'Uberlin', which got its first Irish airplay this week
Read More They've given us album opener 'Discoverer', and a short and sweet trailer, now check out 'Oh My Heart'
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Michael Stipe has his camcorder in the studio with him!
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Recordings of 2007's Dublin gigs set for October arrival.
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Musicians have reacted with bewilderment to the revelation that REM’s new album Accelerate will be accepted as ‘Irish music’ by the BCI.
Read More Michael Stipe talks about REM's new album Accelerate, looks back at their 'working rehearsals' in Dublin and explains how their Irish-born producer helped them through their mid-life crisis.
Read More It's being reported that R.E.M. will play the Oxegen festival this summer.
Read More R.E.M. have confirmed details of their new album, which was publicly rehearsed in Dublin’s Olympia Theatre last year and recorded in Westmeath’s Grouse Lodge Studios.
Read More Stadium giants REM are to release their first-ever live album and DVD this autumn - a recording of a concert in Dublin.
Read More Now venerated members of the Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame, REM are back stronger than ever before.
Read More If REM apply the same print-and-be-damned attitude to the recording of these songs as they did to their live unveiling, they might produce their most vibrant record in years.
Read More R.E.M. are tonight set to complete their five-night stand in what they gushingly describe as “one of the greatest cities in world”.
Read More In a new move to combat touts, REM will release a limited number of tickets for their coming Olympia Theatre shows.
Read More In support of their upcoming Working Rehearsal concerts at the Olympia Theatre, R.E.M. have launched a new website to commemorate the occasion.
Read More REM have announced which lucky artists will support them when they play their five date residency at The Olympia, Dublin.
Read More REM are urging fans not to purchase tickets for their Dublin Olympia gigs from unofficial outlets after 122 disappeared in transit between the UK and the venue box-office on Friday March 30.
Read More American supergroup REM are to play a residency at The Olympia as a "working rehersal" of their new album.
Read More In 2005, what is the point of REM? At times even they seem to be grasping for an answer. For nearly a decade now, the music of Stipe, Buck and Mills has told a story of wavering attention spans. Over that period, fans have cheered rousing, reflective echoes of previous glories – ‘Leaving New York’ might be their best stab at an unapologetic anthem since the mid 1990s – yet endured reams of disinterested dross also.
Read More Michael Stipe paid a special tribute to imprisoned Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi during REM's Irish performance last night
Read More Tonight, Stipe looks like The Riddler – pipe-cleaner thin, all legs and hips and frozen Ka-Pow poses; while around the eyes, a thick smudge of face paint completes the effect. For a forty-something, he sheds years like his lyric sheets.
Read More Recent visitors REM are pictured here with the suitably chuffed staff of Warner Music Ireland
Read More REM bassist Mike Mills has recovered from illness, allowing the band to continue their European tour which comes to Ireland on Friday
Read More Despite cancelling two tour dates in Britain this week, REM ticketholders in Ireland are assured the shows will go on
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REM have announced details of a summer gig at Ardgillan Castle in County Dublin
Read More They are one of the most interesting and enigmatic groups in rock. They are also one of the biggest, with a string of multi-million selling albums to their credit. But they don’t like interviews much, making themselves available for only a handful in Europe to coincide with the release of their new album Around The Sun. Once Peter Buck sits down opposite a microphone, however, a different face of REM reveals itself, as he talks eloquently about life, family, downloads, air rage, Iraq, Bush – and The Thrills.
Read More REM will be appearing on Across The Line TV on Friday, October 1
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Talk about hot cakes, REM are filling two Point Depots full of them...
Read More With the release of their new album just a couple of weeks away, REM have added Dublin and Belfast to their set of European dates.
Read More from reagan to bush; from radio free europe to clear channel; from green to reveal; from the sfx to marlay park. REM call time out and Peter Buck fills in the gaps from 1983 to 2003. interview Peter Murphy
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Set opener ‘Begin The Begin’ from Life’s Rich Pageant indicates it’s a night for the fans and not the lighters in the air brigade. ‘
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The uber-band make their feelings known by streaming a track, 'Final Straw', from their website
Read More REM announce second Marlay Park date plus a Best Of due out in the Autumn
Read More REM to play Glastonbury, T in The Park and - wait for it - Dublin's Marlay Park in July 2003
Read More They do it ‘cos they like to do it, and that’s the only way to create brilliant music. Which this rhinestone studded offering most definitely is.
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Monster is a beast of a different colour, but in sonic terms at least, it harks back to the spirit,
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Yet, it is probably the best thing they've ever done. I'd half hoped that it wouldn't be.
Read More With 'Green' and its attendant world tour finally thrusting R.E.M. into the mainstream after seven years as the worst-kept secret in the Western hemisphere, it was odds-on that, given the band's predilection for avoiding the obvious, the follow-up would bear little relation to its illustrious predecessor, bar the songwriting credits.
Read More Two weeks ago, Life’s Rich Pageant sounded to these ears like a formulated cop-out, an undignified retreat where previously REM had charged remorselessly forward.
Read More With Fables of The Reconstruction R.E.M. find themselves thrust into the 'third album' dilemma - whether to persist with a distinctive sound, thereby risking being pigeonholed, or to make such a radical departure as to lose their initial following and gamble on finding a completely new audience.
Read More "We didn't want it to be the same type of production, Reckoning is less of a mood record, more of a song record". Thus R.E.M. guitarist, Peter Buck on the reasoning behind Reckoning. For once, the pre-sell of the press-release contains the truth.
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