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  Michael Stipe Has Two Krazy Kat Tattoos and More Unlikely Confessions

  July 26, 2012 – As any dedicated R.E.M. fan with a web presence probably knows by now, Michael Stipe has used his long-standing expertise in the visual arts to become somewhat of a Tumblr god. …
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  Hear R.E.M. Guitarist Peter Buck's Solo Song '10 Million BC'

  June 15, 2012 – Peter Buck hasn't been taking it easy since R.E.M. called it quits last year, lending his distinct chiming guitar sound to recordings and live shows by the Baseball Project. But this consummate team player has now decided to step out on his own. Buck's Baseball Project collaborator Steve Wynn recently aired "10 Million BC" during a guest DJ spot on WFMU (via Slicing Up Eyebals). …
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  Fan's Digital R.E.M. Archive Nixed by Universal Music

  June 7, 2012 – Yesterday was a disappointing day for audiophiles, especially those familiar with the work of one particular team of online archivists. Known until now as Analog Loyalist, Drew Crumbaugh, one of three engineer bloggers behind the immaculate restorations of the Smiths' Rough Trade singles discography and Joy Division/New Order's Factory Records releases, has been preemptively thwarted in his efforts to do the same with R.E.M.'s I.R.S. …
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  R.E.M. Pull Out Two Oldies for Final Holiday Single

  December 19, 2011 – Since 1988, R.E.M. fan club subscribers have received a members-only holiday single ever year, including a 1998 split with Radiohead on VHS (!). Since the band split in September, this year's 24th fan-club single is presumably their last. …
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  R.E.M.'s Mike Mills on the Band's Most Underrated Record

  November 16, 2011 – Alternative godfathers and four-time SPIN cover stars R.E.M. ended a 30-year career of defining generations and defying MTV with no fanfare beyond an website announcement. The band's Mike Mills told SPIN last week, "There was no moment of clarity," as he kicked his feet up on the Warner Brothers furniture, explaining that the split was a slow-burner that had been in the works since 2008. Thankfully, Warner Bros. …
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  Watch Feist, Michael Stipe, and Noel Gallagher Rock the Late Shows (Not Together)

  November 11, 2011 – Last night our DVRs were struggling to capture a bevy of fine musical performances on late-night TV: Michael Stipe made a somewhat random appearance on The Colbert Robert and sang "Lean on Me" with Brian Eno and Stephen Colbert (he is promoting the band's best-of, after all). Feist performed two gorgeous songs on Jimmy Kimmel Live! And Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds made their U.S. …
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  R.E.M.'s Mike Mills Says Split Was Gestating Since '08

  November 10, 2011 – "There was no moment of clarity," R.E.M.'s Mike Mills tells SPIN on his second-to-last day as a Warner Brothers employee, feet up on the furniture, chatting about the band's two-disc retrospective Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage (due November 15). "We were discussing it on tour in 2008 and gradually the three of us came separately to the decision that breaking up might be the right thing to do at the time. …
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  R.E.M. Won't Reunite, Michael Stipe Says on U.K. TV

  November 3, 2011 – Don't count on an R.E.M. cash-in reunion tour a decade from now. The alternative rock trailblazers will not be getting back together, Michael Stipe told British TV on Wednesday night. "It's over," Stipe said of the band's split. "It's done." Four decades of R.E.M. photos: right here. There will be no R.E.M. …
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  R.E.M. Want You to Stare at Kirsten Dunst for Three and a Half Minutes

  October 27, 2011 – College rock bricklayers R.E.M. called it quits last month, but they've only just begun rolling out material from their career-spanning retrospective Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982-2011, due out on November 15. The comp will include three fresh tracks, and the mellow, orchestral swan song "We All Go Back to Where We Belong" now has a pair of videos to accompany it. Helmed by Michael Stipe and previous R.E.M. …
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  How Michael Stipe Taught Thom Yorke to Be a Frontman

  October 25, 2011 – Contrary to what coverage of Radiohead's shows at New York's Roseland Ballroom last month might suggest, the band's interpolation of R.E.M.'s "The One I Love" into Kid A opener "Everything in Its Right Place" wasn't a one-off gesture honoring the alt-rock pioneers' still-fresh breakup. In fact, Thom Yorke and Co. …
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