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"Where menace meets magic": 6 legendary albums recorded at the iconic Hansa Tonstudio in Berlin

Bowie, Iggy, Bono, Stipe, Depeche and Sylvian all recorded their master works there. Thankfully not all together.

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"We’re all really happy with the way things are": why watching U2 reminded Mike Mills why R.E.M. will never reunite

R.E.M. might be releasing a 25th-anniversary edition of Up next month, but don't expect to see the band back together, ever

Louder

Someone Check On The ‘90s Kids Bc Kurt Cobain’s Daughter & Tony Hawk’s Son Just Got Married

Even the celebrant was a ‘90s icon.

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Entertainment industry A-listers sign a letter to Biden urging a cease-fire in Gaza

Jon Stewart, America Ferrera, Cate Blanchett and Michael Stipe are among the more than 60 music and film industry stars to put their names to the letter.

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R.E.M. have picked their 40 favourite R.E.M. songs, and Everybody Hurts and Losing My Religion haven't made the cut

R.E.M. have compiled a playlist of their favourite R.E.M. songs, and some massive tunes are noticeable by their absence

Louder

R.E.M. partners with Hulu’s ‘The Bear’ for special ‘Strange Currencies’ video

ATLANTA — Earlier this month, former R.E.M. lead singer Michael Stipe reiterated to alternative rock station 99X’s Steve Barnes that the band has no plans to reunite for any reason.

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R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe changed his original lyrics to Everybody Hurts after regrets over a misunderstood lyric in Losing My Religion

Here's why R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe changed a key lyric in his bands's worldwide mega-hit Everybody Hurts

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“Sometimes I think, 'What would John McVie do?' That’s how I wrote the bassline to Losing My Religion”: The secrets of R.E.M.’s Mike Mills

From the Bass Player Archive: An interview with R.E.M. bassist Mike Mills from 1991, the year that Out Of Time took them from cult status to million sellers.

Guitar World

‘It made me wish I had made more records’: Natalie Merchant on returning to music after losing her voice

Emergency surgery on her spine led to months of enforced silence for the former 10,000 Maniacs singer-songwriter. But rather than take it easy, she’s been raising her teenage daughter, campaigning against fracking and has a new album out

The Guardian - UK

Manchester's small gigs we don't think you can miss this month

Here's our pick of the best grassroots gigs taking place in Manchester this December

Manchester Evening News

Mykki Blanco: Stay Close to Music review – lost in their own album

Burning issues and inspired moments are obscured by a succession of guest vocalists on the rapper’s pop-leaning latest

The Guardian - UK

Renowned NYC musician dies by assisted suicide in Switzerland after having ‘completed life’

Anton Fier, 66, was a prominent figure in the New York music scene in the 1980s and 1990s, and had fallen on difficult times, friends said

The Independent UK

REM's underground "Chronic Town" at 40

Co-producer Mitch Easter speaks with Salon about the beloved and influential EP

Salon

14 of the best spatial audio tracks in Dolby Atmos on Apple Music

Try out what Apple Music's immersive tech can do by sampling these Dolby Atmos-powered spatial audio tracks.

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