Colin Meloy of The Decemberists tells CNN's Brooke Baldwin how R.E.M. influenced his music.
It's the end of the R.E.M. as we know them and they feel fine, according to a statement from the group posted online Wednesday.
The owner of the Georgia Theatre is rebuilding the historic Athens, Georgia, landmark after a devastating fire in 2009.
Nate Query is having what he calls a "Spinal Tap moment."
Inspired by the ocean, Colin Meloy and Nate Query talk about the Decemberists' new sound.
When the Flaming Lips took the stage toward the end of the annual Tibet House benefit show at Carnegie Hall last night, there were none of the mirror balls or laser beams that typically end a Lips show -- but the band had a different surprise in store. After a stunning take on rarely played "Soft Bulletin" track "Feeling You Disintegrate," frontman Wayne Coyne invited composer Philip Glass to the stage's grand piano. "We've been rehearsing with him all day," Coyne said. "And he's pretty f--ing cool."
Last September, R.E.M. wrapped up the final session for their new album, "Collapse Into Now," in Nashville.
Wilmot Greene sat among charred remains of his iconic Georgia Theatre recalling the fire that reduced it from an alternative rock icon to rusted steel girders and walls of black bricks.
A crisis of faith results in a musically intense - and uplifting - episode
A coalition of top musicians, including R.E.M. and Pearl Jam, want to know if their music was used by the U.S. military as part of controversial interrogation methods at the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
A bit of music history was lost Friday morning when flames gutted the Georgia Theatre in Athens, Georgia.
The band's frontman comes forward with a new statement about sexuality
The distinctive tall frame of Arcade Fire singer Win Butler scrapes against the elevator lights as seven bandmates, their instruments, a sound engineer and a cameraman stand cramped below his eyeline.
A mini documentary by Vincent Moon on Sidi Toure, who claims to have sold recors in the US, but is still to receive any money.
Rock group R.E.M. debuted a song from its upcoming album Wednesday on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360°" program.
Watch a trailer for Anderson Cooper's documentary 'Planet in Peril', featuring the new R.E.M. song, 'Until the Day is Done.'
Scarlett Johansson struts her stuff in cleavage-baring dresses on the red carpet, but in real life, she'd rather remain a mystery.
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The title of the new U2 album is "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb."
Some of the biggest names in rock and roll raised millions of dollars in the nation's capital on Monday with a marathon concert aimed at getting out the vote for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry.
Forty-five minutes into the first presidential debate, Bruce Springsteen wandered into the craft services room of the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia where two dozen roadies and a few members of his E Street Band were silently gathered around a TV. "How we doin'?," he asked, pointing to the screen. There was no response. Next he tried a few inquisitive gestures. Thumbs up? Way up? Down? No one shifted his or her gaze. Finally, smiling wryly in recognition of his relative unimportance, Springsteen pulled up a chair and watched with the others.
In a normal year, Bruce Springsteen and Ted Nugent would probably be more worried about record sales.
Somebody stop Scott McCaughey before he writes another song. Better yet, don't.
Fortune: The Playlistupdated: Mon Jan 21 2002 00:01:00
Bruce Cockburn Anything Anytime Anywhere Rounder Records Thanks to soapbox orations like "If I Had a Rocket Launcher," Cockburn has a rep for being a sanctimonious priss--a militant, NPR version of...
As the '90s fade into memory, here's a look back at some of the decade's finest music. (Part three in a series.)
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