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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.

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 ...

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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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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.

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.

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

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.

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 ...