When I was in high school, back in the Paleolithic era known as the 80s, there were finely hewn dividing lines between music tastes (even if these lines were privately breached all the time). I had transmogrified from a 60s championing throwback via The Velvet Underground into what was then called “modern rock.” Even there [...]
R.E.M. — three guys x four eyes Music Review by Noah Mallin The party line on R.E.M.’s new album Accelerate is that it’s a return to classic form, something like U2′s last few records in recapturing the sound that made them stars. They’ve even used Jacknife Lee, the producer of U2′s How To Dismantle An [...]
Compiled by Noah Mallin Here are some of the interesting new music choices this week. As always, if the vids show up as not available hit refresh in your browser.R.E.M. mark the box labeled crunchy guitars on their new album Accelerate. Here’s the video for “Supernatural Superserious” and no, that’s not Moby: The Annuals slide [...]
R.E.M.’s mumbly frontman Michael Stipe has been pretty much publicly gay since the mid-90s and yet People Magazine and others seem to think this is news. Whatever, is this any way to promote a new album? The enigmatic non-emoter is out in front of R.E.M.’s new one Accelerate which has been officially anointed as a [...]
Carlos Santana: Running low on bland anglo singers… The Billboard Top 200 Chart this week chalked up a pretty lousy sales tally, with returning Boss of the chart Bruce Springsteen racking up only 77,000 sales at number 1. Jimmy Eat World snacks on number 5 with Chase This Light, which equals their chart if not [...]
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