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April, 26 1996 - VH1 Honors Benefit Show (Sinead O'Connor cover) Author: gravity113 Keywords: REM r.e.m. Michael Stipe Sinead O'Connor Added: July 7, 2008
Show & Talk - New York Fashion Week Blog - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 06/28/2008
LOL (in a good way). Photo: Rogan Gregory and Michael Stipe Last night, R.E.M. front man, Michael Stipe, unveiled his sculptures at the new Rogan boutique on Bowery. On display through the end of July, the ROGAN vs. STIPE show features sculptures of obsolete objects, like Polaroid cameras and cassette tapes, cast in bronze. The eye-catching new window display to...
Material Interest (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Inside last night's Rogan vs. Stipe party, the temperature reached (approximately) one billion degrees Fahrenheit. Mr. Stipe, clad in a shirt of his own design, seemed unfazed. (His Georgia upbringing probably helped, too.) That said, the crowd outside the Bowery...
blackrimglasses.com (Free subscription) | 06/22/2008
I’m glad I’m helping kill music videos [From Michael Stipe, declaring videos dead, tries to find new ways to promote music - International Herald Tribune]
Towleroad (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
Fashion designer Rogan is opening a new boutique in New York, and New York magazine reports that R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe will be having something of an art show there, exhibiting some bronze sculptures he did of cameras and music...
Listening Post (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008
Music videos once changed the music industry, for worse and for better. But their time has passed for good, says Michael Stipe. ""It is what it is, and I think anyone who refutes that is an idiot in 2008," he...
Show & Talk - New York Fashion Week Blog - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
A preview of Stipe's bronze objects. Photo: Courtesy of Rogan Rogan is breaking in its new digs on 330 Bowery and will fête the opening later this month with an exhibit of objects created by R.E.M. front man Michael Stipe. An inspiration to designer Rogan Gregory, Stipe has created a collection of bronze relics that will be displayed exclusively in the store for one month...
The Sun (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008
VETERAN band are still performing with the enthusiasm of a band on their first release
New Musical Express (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
Michael Stipe has announced an appearance at New York book store McNally Robinson to sign copies of a new photo book about REM.
Today's Blog Music (Free subscription) | 05/30/2008
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http://www.CelebrityVideoTube.com (Free subscription) | 05/17/2008
REM lead singer Michael Stipe has problems listening to Nirvana albums because the memory of his friend Kurt Cobain's death is still too painful. Read the full article here
Thaindian News (Free subscription) | 05/17/2008
London, May 16 (IANS) REM lead singer Michael Stipe has problems listening to Nirvana albums because the memory of his friend Kurt Cobain's death is still too painful. According to contactmusic.com, Stipe is a huge fan of the band, but he hasn't been able to listen to Nirvana albums ever since Kurt Cobain killed himself [...]
Idolator (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
Anyone who's read their share of REM interviews knows the tale in which a young Michael Stipe buys Patti Smith's Horses , plays it over and over while eating a bowl of cherries and decides "hey, I think I'll find a record store clerk with a guitar and mumble over his arpeggios" before vomiting. It's one of those anecdotes that helped establish the lineage of underground cool, along...
Idolator (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
Along with his Foghat purchase, Michael Stipe revealed in his Death & Taxes interview that he still has a hard time listening to Nirvana albums following Kurt Cobain's suicide. "It was all written, it was all right there and it was so obvious where he was going, and then he didn't make it. I still have trouble—I can't listen to an entire Nirvana record." Can you? I'm not suggesting that...
No Rock And Roll Fun (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
Michael Stipe has trouble shaking off the blues when he tries to listen to Nirvana records : "He had reached a point where he was about to push through to something that was so phenomenal and so beautiful. "It was all written, it was all right there and it was so obvious where he was going, and then he didn't make it. "I still have trouble - I can't listen to an entire Nirvana record." Similarly, these...
