If Mick Jones had been born on a hog farm in Illinois, then he might have been Jason Ringenberg. The frontman of Jason & The Scorchers was as punk as the Pistols and as country as Cash. The band tore through the 80s with such contemporaries as the Long Ryders and R.E.M., setting the bar [...]
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So REM have announced that they have officially ceased to be, 30 years after they first played at an Athens, GA church. There’s very little new to say, really. That doesn’t mean it isn’t worth saying.
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‘If only in everything in life’, ran the advertising tagline, ‘was as reliable as a Volkswagen’. But in a way, everything is. It really just depends which angle you are coming from. Take REM, for example. Once arguably the greatest band in the world, you could count on them to deliver a stonking album every [...]
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In the latest of our series of re-appraisals of seminal artists and their work, we look back to R.E.M.’s 1992 masterpiece and ask – does it stand the test of time? Age is a bastard. It makes you saggy, forgetful, malodorous and cranky. It fogs the brain and reduces your ability to make decisions. It [...]
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In the City was the late Tony Wilson’s gift to the British music industry, featuring guest speakers and a whole host of unsigned bands competing to be awarded the unofficial title of ‘boys or girls most likely to.’ This year’s event is in Manchester and features panellists including Elbow’s Guy Garvey and The Charlatans‘ Tim Burgess. [...]
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Ah, the internet and the freedom it affords nutters. From the file marked ‘is this news?’, a campaign has been started calling for Weezer to split up. The campaign, organised by Seattle resident James Burns, is offering $10million for the band to call it a day. Burns said he was not a Weezer fan, but was [...]
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During the recent Mercury Music prize press blitz, you’d have been forgiven for thinking John Bramwell, better known as I Am Kloot, was only in the running because he was pals with Elbow’s Guy Garvey. The media, looking for an angle, decided the comparision between the struggling indie band and the massively-successful indie band was [...]
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In our occasional look at the classic albums lost in the mists of time, ELM looks at the album which was the connoisseur’s choice back in 1993. Michael Stipe was a very big deal back in the early 90s. Having been frontman of the most critically lauded band of the 80s, his mainstream profile rocketed as [...]
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Athens, Georgia’s finest at their finest. While massive success came in the 90s, and they have managed a decent enough standard this century, only a fool would deny that the R.E.M. of the 80s was the definitive. It’s no exaggeration to label them one of the most important bands to come out of the U.S. [...]
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The Government estimates we produce over 10 million tones of packaging waste each year. The Daily Mail have declared war on the simple plastic bag, declaring it a hazard up there with nuclear war, Labour and immigrants. Even asking for one in Marks and Spencer is now akin to saying ‘I would like you to [...]
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