R.E.M.

Jay-Z Coldplay = Play-Z: A Rundown of Other Oddball Mashups

On New Year's Eve Brooklyn's Barclays Center will be alive with the monster double-bill of Coldplay and Jay-Z. Two titanic musical entities that have spent the past decade being the epicenter of their genres, their alignment for one night is sure to be a colossal way to bring in the new year. But de ... More >>

Dear Beloit College: 1994 Was Also A Good Year For "Women Of This Generation" To Be Rock Stars

"Good music programmers are rock stars to the women of this generation, just as guitar players were for their mothers." —From the Beloit College Mindset List, in which two dudes at a Wisconsin college attempt to get a bead on What The Freshmen Class Might Be Thinking via the making of a list w ... More >>

Eight Posts That You'll Probably See Somewhere On The Internet Now That Chumbawamba Have Broken Up

8. [Hastily Wikipedia rewrite with a headline that quotes the "I've fallen and I can't get up!" LifeAlert ad in a misguided effort to quote "Tubthumping"] 7. "The Top Seven Chumbawamba Songs That You've Never Heard" 6. [Long and possibly not incorrect Thought Catalog piece on how the tyranny of ' ... More >>

100 & Single: Gotye And fun. Help Alternative Rock Go Pop Once Again

Consider this six-pack of rock acts: Siouxsie and the Banshees, Big Audio Dynamite, the Psychedelic Furs, U2, R.E.M. and Julian Cope. My dream Rock & Roll Hall of Fame? Not quite—it's a list of the first six artists to go to No. 1 on the chart Billboard launched in the fall of 1988, then call ... More >>

Mission of Burma

Ten Discarded Ideas For End-Of-2011 Lists, Since It's That Time Of Year

R.I.P.​10. Six Bands With Acronymic Names That I Wondered About After Hearing About R.E.M.'s Breakup 9. The Eight Most Annoying Pre-Roll Ads On Vevo 8. 12 Ways People Freaked Out When I Gently Suggested That A Fall Out Boy Album Might Be Better Than Is This It

R.E.M.'s Reckoning

The band closes the book on their legacy

This Week In The Voice: Portishead's Hip-Hop Roots, Northern-Spy's Grand Ambitions, And The Breakup Of R.E.M.

In this week's Village Voice, out now: Christopher R. Weingarten talks to Portishead's Geoff Barrow about his group's relationship with hip-hop in advance of this weekend's All Tomorrow's Parties I'll Be Your Mirror Festival and the band's shows next week; Jesse Jarnow examines the grand—yet r ... More >>

This Week in the Voice: Inside Suckadelic Enterprises, R.E.M.'s Reckoning

This week in the Voice, out today: Camille Dodero profiles the Sucklord, 42-year-old Morgan Phillips, who lived with his mother till the age of 36 but is now an important figure in the designer toy world despite thinking that everyone sucks. Maura Johnston takes stock of R.E.M.'s breakup in light o ... More >>

Eight Posts That You'll Probably See Somewhere On The Internet Now That R.E.M. Has Called It Quits

R.I.P., R.E.M.​8. I Wanted To Be Wrong: Why Around The Sun Is R.E.M.'s Stealth Masterpiece 7. One Time I Stood Across The Street From Michael Stipe's House: A 4,000-Word Memoir About Five Minutes That Changed My Life Forever

The New Adventures of Old R.E.M.

Collapse Into Now finds our wizened heroes sounding more like themselves than ever

The Six Most Decisive Wins In Pazz and Jop History

Not quite​Having spent the last two weeks poring through Pazz & Jop 2010, I've learned everything from the two albums most statistically similar to a bootleg compilation of early Bob Seger (those would be Flockaveli and Ke$ha's Animal/Cannibal combo) to the number of writers who ended their co ... More >>

Live: Sharon Van Etten Manages Not To Soil Herself At Bowery Ballroom

It's OK if your eyes well up a little. Pics by Mike Benigno, more below.​Sharon Van Etten/Sebastian Blanck/The War on Drugs Bowery Ballroom Saturday, January 8 Better Than: Another night of "Love More" on repeat Around 7 o'clock Saturday night, shortly before I had to catch a D train and hea ... More >>

Download Sharon Van Etten's Set Saturday Night At Bowery Ballroom

Pic by Mike Benigno. ​Sharon Van Etten's show Saturday night at Bowery Ballroom was both an intimate family affair and an acknowledgment that the once-cultish folkie is moving on to bigger, better things: One of those shows where everyone wants to sing along but they don't want to break the sp ... More >>

Watch The Swell Season Cover Neutral Milk Hotel's "Two-Headed Boy"

​I've followed the Onion A.V. Club's "Undercover" series -- they picked 25 songs, and have invited 25 bands to cover them one at a time, so the first band has 25 songs to choose from, and the last has no choice at all -- just to see which tune will suffer the indignity of being the last one re ... More >>

'SPIN25 Presents the National'

Alright, Let's Deal With This Star-Studded Haiti-Benefit "Everybody Hurts" Debacle

Here we have the gala Simon Cowell-produced R.E.M. cover, starring Susan Boyle, Mariah Carey, Michael Buble, Leona Lewis, Rod Stewart, and a gaggle of not-as-famous people. Not a good look. I don't have any problems until James Blunt shows up, and no major problems until Jon Bon Jovi starts howli ... More >>

QUIET, LOUDLY

Brooklyn twosome defy our raucous expectations

Coachella 2010 Lineup Announced: Jay-Z, LCD Soundsystem, Vampire Weekend, Thom Yorke????, Pavement, Etc

​Lot of New York bands representing: LCD Soundsystem, Vampire Weekend, Grizzly Bear, Yeasayer, Lucero, Sleigh Bells, Dirty Projectors, De La Soul, Julian Casablancas, Matt & Kim, Gil Scott-Heron, etc. Pretty fucking good show. Some other big ones--Public Image Limited, Grace Jones, Gorillaz, P ... More >>

Both Michael Stipe and Terence Koh Were at Salem's Glasslands Show Last Night

The deathgaze, Gucci Mane-remixing, mystery-goth act Salem played Glasslands last night and found themselves experiencing the classically weird New York experience of playing in front of representatives of every major media outlet in the city, plus artist Terence Koh (who's photographed the band b ... More >>

Live: Real Estate And The Babies Go Bowling

Same place awhile back. Possibly same outfit. Real Estate/The Babies Brooklyn Bowl Tuesday, January 5 It's not until I explain to someone that tonight I'm going to see a band called Real Estate that I truly reflect on how ludicrous it is that a band called Real Estate exists. That is the anti-b ... More >>

Jimmy Eat World Totally Jobbed By The A.V. Club's Otherwise Exemplary "21 Songs About Hating The Radio" List

If only AutoTune had existed back then. Starring Elvis Costello, Public Enemy, the Smiths, Shellac, NOFX, TMBG (!), and R.E.M. The "Alice in Chains are the new Doors" theory (during a discussion about the Dead Kennedys' "Triumph of the Swill") is particularly revelatory. Better sing now while you ... More >>

If You Could Only Listen To One Song...

Let's play make believe and say your Ipod was stuck on one tune for the rest of your days and there was no way your eardrums could escape the sound of it, even if they ran away. In other words, you'd be forced to hear this one ditty blasting in your ears through eternity and beyond, so you'd bette ... More >>

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This Week's Voice: R.E.M., Ludacris, Frost/Nixon, Authors Pick Obscure Books, and More

The One You Love

Michael Stipe signs his new photo book

The Dark Side of the Great R.E.M. Comeback

R.E.M.'s Rebirth of the World as We Know It

Keeping hope and their youthful idealism alive

SXSW: R.E.M., D.O.A.

Great Lakes Myth Society's Compass Rose Bouquet

Greetings from Michigan, again, but a lot less fey this time.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony: Chaos Reigns

TV Eyes

Shy, surrealist pop pours forth from the Human TV

Boys in the Well

Stipe and Co. regain propulsion, hooks, political purpose

Over It!

Politicking With Michael Stipe; Hanging With The Hansons; Slash In Soho

Shortlist

A Murray Murray Christmas!

Listings

Getting Their Hands Dirty

Michael Azerrad Chronicles Indie Rock His Way

Class of ’33

Three-Legged Dogs

All Ears

Disney Dreams Up the Best Radio Station in 30 Years

Hey Andy, Did You Hear About This One?

Sleepwalking, sleepdancing

White Lines (Do It)

Letters

38 Special

Rubicon Beach

Sonic Youth in Occupied America