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R.E.M. Have Setlist Issues

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) June 9, 2008 2:30 pm
I haven't seen R.E.M. since they played a free show in downtown Toronto seven years ago. That show was a promotion for their second post-Bill Berry album, Reveal, also known as the first confirmation that Up's myriad weaknesses were no fluke. But so powerful was the goodwill at the free concert that it was practically impossible to notice how...
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Sasquatch 2008 Day One

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By Quinn Omori (CHARTattack) May 28, 2008 2:00 pm
For the first time in it's seven-year history, the Sasquatch Music Festival stretched over a full three days. Memorial Day might not sound like an appropriate excuse to party, but with nearly 100 artists and comedians sharing three stages, our American neighbours and hosts did a fine job of demonstrating how to properly celebrate a long weekend...
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R.E.M. — Accelerate

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By Steve McLean (CHARTattack) April 1, 2008 9:58 pm
It's now been 25 years since R.E.M. registered on music lovers' radar with Murmur. Many people who first fell in love with the Athens, Ga. band back then have fretted that they've mellowed with age since 1998's Up, their first album without drummer Bill Berry. Michael Stipe, Peter Buck and Mike Mills show that they still know how to rock on...
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R.E.M. — Live

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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) October 16, 2007 10:07 am
This double-disc and DVD live set's seemingly random rake through R.E.M.'s back catalogue yields equal measures of surprises and skips. Things start strongly when "I Took Your Name" from the unfairly maligned Monster album segues into an effective "Boy In The Well." Unfortunately, and perhaps influenced by the fact they were...
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R.E.M. — Around The Sun

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By Elizabeth Chorney-Booth (CHARTattack) October 5, 2004 12:13 pm
After a couple years skulking around Vancouver, R.E.M. have finally completed their new album and the good news is, while it isn’t exactly a return to form, it carries far more weight than their last two efforts, Up and Reveal. Around The Sun has already been labeled by some as a "political album," but thankfully, it’s only political...
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WATCH: Stephen Colbert, Brian Eno, and R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe sing "Lean On Me"

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By Jon Pappo (CHARTattack) November 11, 2011 12:00 pm
Last night on The Colbert Report, musical genius Brian Eno dropped by to discuss his newly released EP Panic of Looking and his inventive art installation 77 Million Paintings, a constantly evolving “visual music” piece that involves ambient sounds and paintings displayed randomly on large flat panel TVs.  Speaking about the title of his...
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WATCH: Please stare at Kirsten Dunst While R.E.M. plays in the background

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By Jon Pappo (CHARTattack) October 27, 2011 4:13 pm
With R.E.M.’s end, we got one last single, "We All Go Back to Where We Belong," which we featured on an MP3 roundup last week. Now the track has not one, but two music videos.The concept is dead simple: The serene song plays, Kirsten sways, and we all swoon. If Kirsten isn’t your cup of tea (but… why?!), you can watch a similar video that features...
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I Read The News Today... For May 5, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) May 5, 2011 3:32 pm
Ron Sexsmith's songs will be tackled by the likes of the Barenaked Ladies, soprano Measha Brueggergosman, Broken Social Scene's Kevin Drew, The Band's Garth Hudson, Andy Kim and country band Ladies Of The Canyon during this year's Luminato festival in Toronto, which runs June 10 to 19 throughout the city. The Sexsmith tribute will be held June 15...
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I Read The News Today... For March 23, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) March 23, 2011 3:22 pm
Tokyo Police Club are the final addition to the list of acts who will perform at this year's Juno Awards on Sunday. OOOOOOH! OOOOOH! Does that mean they're winning something? Guess we'll have to watch to see. City And Colour's March 18 set at Austin, Texas' St. David's Episcopal Church as part of South By Southwest is already available as a live...
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Video Of The Day: R.E.M.'s "Alligator Aviator Autopilot Antimatter" (Featuring Peaches)

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) March 14, 2011 5:05 pm
R.E.M.'s next awesome video for a tune from their recently released Collapse Into Now album features wicked cameos from Peaches, who wanders around Berlin's subway system in weird costumes with Michael Stipe. There's no real alligator in this clip, but there's a lot of... well... strangeness, like Stipe in a gladiator uniform, for instance...
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I Read The News Today... For March 9, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) March 9, 2011 4:02 pm
Kid Rock was born free, y'all! Canadians obviously weren't, so he's coming up here in May to preaaaaaaaaaach! —MySpace Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings are heading north of the 49th parallel for a Canadian tour in May as well. Who would CHARTattack staffers and contributors rather see in May? Hmm... —MySpace The Acorn have done plenty of overseas...
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I Read The News Today... For March 3, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) March 3, 2011 4:11 pm
Public Enemy will headline a day at this year's Bestival in England, joining The Cure and Primal Scream, who are the other bill-toppers. —BBC Radio 1 Memphis, Stars singer Torquil Campbell's side-project with Chris Dumont, are giving away two tunes from their upcoming Here Comes A City album. You can get "I Am The Photographer" and "I Want The...
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Video Of The Day: R.E.M.'s "Uberlin" (CHARTattack Premiere)

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) March 2, 2011 10:53 am
R.E.M.'s clip for "Uberlin" finds a young man dancing in all sorts of wacky ways through some city streets. He suspends himself sideways in a doorway, leaps off fire hydrants, does hand stands, kinda destroys a mailbox and jumps all over the place. It brings new meaning to the phrase "interpretive dancing." "Uberlin" appears on Collapse Into Now,...
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Song Of The Day: The Decemberists' "Cuyahoga" (R.E.M. Cover)

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) February 14, 2011 1:23 pm
The Decemberists recently stopped by Los Angeles radio station KCRW to do a session for its Morning Becomes Eclectic show. Much has been written about how much their new The King Is Dead album is influenced by R.E.M. (Peter Buck even played on the LP), so it was only appropriate that Colin Meloy and company covered R.E.M.'s "Cuyahoga," from that...
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I Read The News Today... For Dec. 22, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) December 22, 2010 2:59 pm
Elbow have announced the date when you can expect to take a long, extended nap their new Build A Rocket Boys! album comes out: March 8. Get your jammies ready.  —NME Lauryn Hill's announced a North American tour that'll take place in January. It's like 1998 just slapped you right in the face! —Ticketmaster Chris Martin decided he'd rather eat...
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I Read The News Today... For Nov. 4, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) November 4, 2010 1:14 pm
Crash Karma were recently in Afghanistan to perform for Canadian troops stationed there. Now that they're back, they'll head out on a cross-Canada tour this month. —MySpace Lil Wayne is a free man today after being released from New York's Rikers Island prison, where he was serving a gun possession charge. Apparently this is the biggest thing to...
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R.E.M.'s "Everybody Hurts" Makes Dudes Cry

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) September 30, 2010 11:09 am
R.E.M.'s "Everybody Hurts" has topped a U.K. poll of songs most likely to make men cry. The poll was conducted by PRS For Music, which collects and pays royalties to musicians in the U.K. A total of 1,700 people were surveyed. Elton John's "Candle In The Wind," Bruce Springsteen's "Streets Of Philadelphia," Sinead O'Connor's "Nothing Compares 2 U...
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I Read The News Today... For July 14, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff July 14, 2010 2:47 pm
Hot Hot Heat will spend the fall touring Canada. Dine Alone R.E.M. have finished recording their 15th studio album in Berlin, Germany. It should be out this fall. Rolling Stone Trivia A.D.'s David Oliver has compiled the ultimate Seinfeld soundtrack. Relive "The Pony Remark," "The Soup Nazi," "The Chinese...
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I Read The News Today... For June 30, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff June 30, 2010 12:45 pm
Hot Hot Heat have announced a summer and fall North American trek. That means there's plenty of opportunities to get bandages on your arms and legs while seeing them. —The Music Slut Looks like the powers that be have decided to give us more Third Eye Blind material. Wasn't one gigantic oil spill enough? —Alternative Press...
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