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'Everybody Hurts' director on the R.E.M. video that 'changed' lives 30 years ago: 'It touched everybody'
"This track just really got hold of me — took hold of me,” recalls director Jake Scott, who at age 27 was still trying to make "that one video when you knock it out of the park."
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Michael Stipe Strikes a Note of Sanity With Coronavirus PSA
Even though he starts off by singing verses from the 1987 hit “It’s the End of the World As We Know It (and I Feel Fine),” ex-R.E.M. singer Michael Stipe strikes a balanced, cautious-but-optimistic tone with a “4 Coronavirus Rules” public service announcement posted on his website and excerpted on Twitter (below) on Tuesday. First […]
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Fischerspooner's Casey Spooner talks collaborating with ex-lover Michael Stipe on post-R.E.M. music
"To be working on a record about homosexuality, with the man I had my first sexual experience with, in the house where all of those feelings began, was totally crazy," says Fischerspooner's Casey Spooner.
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R.E.M. Announce Automatic for the People 25-Year Anniversary Reissue
Listen to previously unreleased demo “Mike’s Pop Song”
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Michael Stipe: 'I Stand With Radiohead' in Israel Concert Controversy
“Let’s hope a dialogue continues, helping to bring the occupation to an end and lead to a peaceful solution”
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Stephen Colbert and Michael Stipe Put Modern Twist on a Classic R.E.M. Song
On The Late Show, Stephen Colbert opened the show with an updated version of the R.E.M. hit “It’s the End of the World as We Know It,” reimagined to perfectly encapsulate the events of 2016. Stipe stood silent with a microphone in front of him as Colbert sang about about everything from the Zika virus to Harambe, from climate change to white supremacists in the government. Stipe nearly joined in after Colbert finished the second verse, which began with Black Lives Matter and ended with Trump i
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R.E.M.'s Mike Mills Merges Rock & Classical With Childhood Friend Robert McDuffie
Since R.E.M. disbanded in 2011, bassist Mike Mills has recorded and played with the all-star combo the Baseball Project and performed as part of an ensemble paying tribute to the cult-classic album Big Star’s Third. Due Oct. 14 is Concerto for Violin, Rock Band and String Orchestra by Mills and his childhood friend Robert McDuffie. As the title suggests, it’s a combination of rock with classical music that combines Mills’s pop and rock instincts with the majestic sounds of an orchestra and McD