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R.E.M. will reissue their classic 1981 debut single, “Radio Free Europe,” this summer, making it available in its original form for the first time in 40 years. “Radio Free Europe (Original Hib-Tone Single)” will be available as a 45-rpm seven-inch on July 23rd, pressed in Athens, Georgia, with the original sleeve artwork featuring Michael Stipe’s photography. The release kicks off the birthday celebrations for the Southern college-town bar band who turned the world upside down.
It’s the ultimate rock & roll origin story: Four guys walk into a garage to bang out a record.
It’s the ultimate rock & roll origin story: Four guys walk into a garage to bang out a record.
- 5/18/2021
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
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Thirty years ago, R.E.M. dropped an album called Out of Time — and nobody was prepared for it. “Losing My Religion,” “Half a World Away,” “Country Feedback,” “Near Wild Heaven” — these were the most soulful, gorgeous songs the boys from Athens G-a had ever written. This comeback changed everything about the R.E.M. story, but it also presaged the whole decade to come. They basically invented the Nineties with this album. It was a total shock, after a few years when they sounded like bored rock pros going through the motions.
- 3/12/2021
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
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Perhaps the only genre ever to be named after its fans’ level of educational attainment, “college rock” was exactly what the name implied: smart, fun music perfect for hanging out and drinking beer, ideally on a Friday afternoon in fall just after your last class was over. College rock got its start at the close of the Seventies in Athens, Georgia, with the insanely original dance-punk band Pylon; soon it came to be defined by the sweet, cryptic guitar jangle of R.E.M., who went on to help define Nineties alt-rock as well.
- 11/19/2020
- by Jon Dolan
- Rollingstone.com
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“At the very least,” Steve Gorman writes in his new tell-all about the Black Crowes, “I can tell you what happened from my point of view.” As the band’s drummer since its nascent days as Mr. Crowe’s Garden up until the Black Crowes’ implosion in 2014, Gorman has seen his share of rock & roll drama from behind the kit. In Hard to Handle: The Life and Death of the Black Crowes — A Memoir, written with Steven Hyden, he distills his 27 years with the group into a satisfying and unexpectedly emotional read.
- 10/3/2019
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
In terms of the grand musical historiography, a dB’s resurgence is around par with that Feelies reunion in terms of pure necessity. A mostly forgotten group of oddball innovators with two albums of slick, power-pop firepower breathlessly adored in record-clerk circles—it felt like a flashbang even at their prime. They rolled loose and liquid out of North Carolina, specializing in indelible, insect-reflex guitar hooks out of the forever-frantic Peter Holsapple. Candy-coated jams like “Black and White” still reverberate, quite possibly because they were the finest examples of pop genius that their Southeastern beatnik crew had to offer. R.E.M. ain’t got...
- 6/26/2012
- Pastemagazine.com
By Sean O’Connell
Durham, N.C., is enjoying an unusually busy week. On Monday night, Duke University’s men’s basketball team, the Blue Devils, will compete for an Ncaa National Championship against the Butler Bulldogs. Should Duke win, the Southern city likely will celebrate right up until Thursday, when the annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival picks up the torch and carries a wave of enthusiasm through the weekend.
Full Frame has become an essential springtime stop for documentary film lovers and celebrants of all things cinema. The four-day gathering has become a springboard for recent Oscar winners such as James Marsh’s “Man On Wire” (2008) or Alex Gibney’s “Taxi to the Dark Side” (2007). It’s also earning a reputation for luring documentary heavyweights to the intimate Southern setting, meaning you have a very good chance of bumping into Gibney, Morgan Spurlock, Charles Ferguson, Godfrey Cheshire, D.A. Pennebaker,...
Durham, N.C., is enjoying an unusually busy week. On Monday night, Duke University’s men’s basketball team, the Blue Devils, will compete for an Ncaa National Championship against the Butler Bulldogs. Should Duke win, the Southern city likely will celebrate right up until Thursday, when the annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival picks up the torch and carries a wave of enthusiasm through the weekend.
Full Frame has become an essential springtime stop for documentary film lovers and celebrants of all things cinema. The four-day gathering has become a springboard for recent Oscar winners such as James Marsh’s “Man On Wire” (2008) or Alex Gibney’s “Taxi to the Dark Side” (2007). It’s also earning a reputation for luring documentary heavyweights to the intimate Southern setting, meaning you have a very good chance of bumping into Gibney, Morgan Spurlock, Charles Ferguson, Godfrey Cheshire, D.A. Pennebaker,...
- 4/5/2010
- by Sean O'Connell
- Hollywoodnews.com
There’s something wonderfully ambitious about the Radio Free Song Club, a new podcast created by singer/songwriter Kate Jacobs and Wfmu DJ Nicholas Hill. They’ve challenged a handful of veteran songwriters to record a new song every month to debut on the show. The “club” now includes Dave Schramm (The Schramms, Yo La Tengo), Peter Blegvad (Golden Palominos), Jody Harris, Victoria Williams, Laura Cantrell, Freedy Johnston, Peter Holsapple (the db’s) and Freakwater’s Janet Beveridge Bean and Catherine Ann Irwin. Shramm serves as the one-man house band, along with guests David Mansfield, Syd Straw and Beth Orton....
- 3/30/2010
- Pastemagazine.com
The biggest new release this week comes from Black Eyed Peas, whose "Boom Boom Pow" coninues to dominated charts and the radio. Mos Def is one of the few new hip-hop titles to come out this week, amongst a slew of veteran indie artists like Sonic Youth, Graham Coxon and Rhett Miller. A couple British acts -- Freeland and Kasabian -- have new efforts, as does rising newcomer Dirty Projectors. Peter Holsapple and Chris Stamey have their first collaboration in 20 years. We kick off with Black Eyed Peas' "The E.N.D." Despite the somewhat foreboding CD title, the band insists the...
- 6/9/2009
- by Hitfix Staff
- Hitfix
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