10 Songs to Dead Friends and Loved Ones
By Adam Morrison Music can be used to express even the most complicated and darkest of emotions. Here are ten songs whose lyrics are written as a message to cherished ones that have
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Geeks and Beats Podcast, Episode 120: A Mild Case of Stylus Envy
Well, I’m back in Singapore again, but you’d never know it looking out my hotel window. The smoke from Indonesian forest fires is so thick that visibility is down to around 500 metres.
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Box Set Season Continues with This Collection of 7-Inch Singles from REM
Well, this looks interesting–if 7-inch singles are your thing. It’s coming from Universal Music Canada on December 9. I’m in! R.E.M. ‘7IN – 83-88’ “Radio Free Europe” / “There She Goes Again”
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Michael Stipe Releases His First Music Since the End of REM
When REM finally called it a day in 2011, a lot of fans expected Michael Stipe to get deeper into film. After all, he already had a couple of movie companies of his
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So Who Leaked the David-Letterman-Is-Retiring News? It Looks Like It Was Mike Mills of REM
The Late Show is recorded in the late afternoon, so anything that happens on the show becomes public knowledge long before the program airs at 11:35pm ET. So when Dave dropped the retirement
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Michael Stipe’s Isolated Vocals from “Losing My Religion”
More Auto Tune-free fun, this time courtesy of Consequence of Sound. I love this sort of thing because it offers a unique look on the artistic decisions made by the singer when it
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