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Dani Garavelli: Scene and not heard

WHEN I first heard actor Ian Hart had leapt off stage at the end of a performance of the play Speaking In Tongues to berate a member of his West End audience for talking, I wanted to give him a standing ovation.

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Saturday | Express

Now on DVD: 'Wings of Desire'

LONG A CULT favorite, Wim Wenders ' 1987 film " Wings of Desire " has proved to be a quietly influential depiction of Berlin, inspiring U2 's experimental period in the early 1990s, R.E.M. 's video for " Everybody Hurts " and an awful Nicolas Cage movie called " City of Angels ." Despite its notoriety, however, "Wings" has been almost impossible to ...

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Related Topix: Arts, Cinema, Pop/Rock, City of Angels, Drama Movies, Nicolas Cage

Thu Nov 26, 2009

Edmonton Journal

Vic Chesnutt waxes poetic

Singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt's zigzagging musical career is a difficult one to sum up.

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Related Topix: Athens, GA, Pop/Rock, Punk, Fugazi

Tue Nov 24, 2009

WPLA-FM Jacksonville

What's The Frequency Ke... - R.e...

R.E.M. mark the point when post-punk turned into alternative rock. When their first single, "Radio Free Europe," was released in 1981, it sparked a back-to-the-garage movement in the American underground.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, The Way, Alternative-Rock

Paste Magazine

R.E.M. Working on New Album, Michael Stipe Working on Beard

A couple days ago, R.E.M released two short videos filmed by a covert/hirsute Michael Stipe .

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Sun Nov 22, 2009

The Daily Page

Modern Skirts' keyboardy rock is Peach State-bred

The most famous bands that emerged from Athens, Ga., in the 1970s and 1980s defied the conventions of Southern rock.

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Related Topix: Athens, GA, Pop/Rock, The B-52'S, Decatur, GA, Athens Metro, Elberton, GA

Fri Nov 20, 2009

BBC

What is automatism?

Automatism is essentially a legal defence, arguing that a person cannot be held responsible for their actions because they had no conscious knowledge of them.

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Thu Nov 19, 2009

Hypebeast.com

Michael Stipe x Maison Martin Margiela

Maison Martin Margiela and R.E.M. lead singer Michael Stipe are in the midst of launching a collaborative piece of jewelry.

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Undercover

REM Return To Studio With Jacknife Lee

REM are going back into the studio with producer Jacknife Lee. According to a report on www.REMhq.com , the band have entered the studio to work on the follow up to 2008a s a Acceleratea , which Lee also worked on.

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Wed Nov 18, 2009

Stereogum

R.E.M. Vlog LP15

R.E.M. Vlog LP15 * Michael Stipe takes us on a brief studio tour to watch he and R.E.M. work on their forthcoming album with Jacknife Lee.

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Mon Nov 16, 2009

A-Infos Radio Project

Paul's Boutique: Paul's Boutique: November 12, 2009, Segment 1

If you like this program, you can listen to it live every Thursday from 9 to 11 PM Eastern time USA via the internet at www.wrir.org, or on your radio in Richmond VA at 97.3 FM.

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Related Topix: Richmond, VA, Richmond Metro, Pop/Rock

Sun Nov 15, 2009

Sheaf

Vic Chesnutt kicking ass on tour

"I'm total folk musician. My granddaddy taught me how to play guitar; his dad taught him how to play guitar.

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Related Topix: Vic Chesnutt, Alternative, Pop/Rock, Punk, Fugazi, The Replacements, Brooklyn, NY, New York, NY

Fri Nov 13, 2009

ChartAttack

Music R.E.M. - Live At The Olympia In Dublin

R.E.M.'s Live At The Olympia In Dublin is a bit of an experiment in the live CD/DVD concept.

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Thu Nov 12, 2009

Houstonpress.com

Westheimer Block Party Listology: The Watermarks (Minus One) Choose Their Favorite Duets

All this week, Rocks Off is previewing Saturday and Sunday's Westheimer Block Party by asking WBP performers to fill out a list from Lisa Nola's Music Listography book we're so fond of.

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The Rock 106.7

R.E.M. Hits the Studio to Record New Material

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Press-Citizen

record REWIND

Tracks/time: 10/38 minutes, 57 seconds. Sounds like: Folk-rock bliss as The Byrds meet Sal Valentino's haunting Beau Brummels on Georgia clay.

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Related Topix: The Beau Brummels, Pop/Rock, Iowa City, IA

Sat Nov 07, 2009

The Gauntlet

Entertainment - Spun: R.E.M.

If you don't like R.E.M., you likely won't like this. Alright, now that that's over with, Live at the Olympia in Dublin is a collection of songs recorded during a five-night stand in the summer of 2007 in Dublin where they played old favourites and mixed in new songs from their since-been-released Accelerate.

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Thu Nov 05, 2009

Examiner.com

Sesame Street's 40th anniversary: The Best Rock Moments

This week marks the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street , first broadcast on PBS on November 10, 1969.

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Related Topix: Sesame Street, Animated TV, Children TV, Entertainment, Pop/Rock

Willamette Week

CD Reviews: Loch Lomond, Brothers Young

The band's songs, which take singer Ritchie Young's quivering voice - one that often switches from a deep register to an androgynous falsetto in the same verse - and surround it with layers of baroque instrumentation, have always been pretty.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Music, Entertainment

Wed Nov 04, 2009

LiveDaily

Album Review: R.E.M., oeLive at the Olympia

If anyone was wondering how R.E.M. [ tickets ] went from the brooding, disappointing murk of 2004's "Around the Sun" to the urgent, clarion call, return-to-form of 2008's "Accelerate," you'll find part of the answer on "Live at the Olympia." This two-CD, 39-song set is culled from the band's 2007 five-night engagement at Dublin's historic Olympia ...

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