R.E.M. Accelerate Warner Bros. Accelerate, R.E.M.'s first studio album in four years, is being widely hailed as a return to the seminal college-rock band's roots, with its punchy, stripped-down guitars and renewed musical focus.
R.E.M. brake for nobody on 'Accelerate,' a comeback album of sorts, and The Black Keys expand their color palette with a little help from producer Danger Mouse.
Just when I'd concluded that R.E.M.'s three-legged dog don't hunt no more, it turns in its most powerful and cohesive work since 1992's "Automatic for the People," a record brimming with all the things that made R.E.M. great in the first place: clangy autumnal melodies, droney proto-emo vocals, trippy nuance, the haunted poetics of regret, the routine eschewing of the obvious and the familiar in
Posted: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 at 10:09 a.m. CLEVELAND (AP) -- The family of R&B singer Sean Levert wants the FBI to look into his death after a jail medical emergency.
The family of R&B singer Sean Levert wants the FBI to look into his death after a jail medical emergency. His cousin, Michael Gibson, said Levert never had any outburst such as the type described by Kevin McDonough, warden at the Cuyahoga County jail.
R&B star, Estelle, currently #1 in the UK Singles Chart with "American Boy" featuring Kanye West, has joined The Body Shop and MTV to launch a new campaign raising HIV and AIDS awareness, targeting the under-25s.
Sean Levert, a third of the 1980s R&B trio LeVert and son of lead O'Jays singer Eddie Levert, has died after falling ill while serving a jail term. He was 39.
At what point in a band's career is it impossible to evaluate its new album without referencing its back catalog? Just ask R.E.M., whose albatross is its past †at least, every time they release a record and people whine that it doesn't sound like R.E.M. circa 1983, 1986, 1992 or 1996, etc. A
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