NORTHLAND'S FAVORITE HITS » r.e.m. http://kool1017.com Thu, 23 May 2013 20:30:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 R.E.M. Announces Breakup, Says 'The Time Just Feels Right' http://kool1017.com/r-e-m-breakup/ http://kool1017.com/r-e-m-breakup/#comments Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:02:37 +0000 Chris M. Junior http://tsminteractive.com/?p=48306 After more than 30 years together, during which time they rose from critical alternative-rock favorites to international pop superstars and eventually Rock and Roll Hall of Fame status, R.E.M. announced Wednesday they have “called it a day as a band.”

]]> http://kool1017.com/r-e-m-breakup/feed/ 0 Scott Gries, Getty Images R.E.M. Quickly Returns to the Studio for Its Next Album http://kool1017.com/r-e-m-quickly-returns-to-the-studio-for-its-next-album/ http://kool1017.com/r-e-m-quickly-returns-to-the-studio-for-its-next-album/#comments Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:07:13 +0000 Tony Hart http://kool1017.com/?p=10049 Over the last 15 years or so, R.E.M. fans have grown accustomed to three-to-four-year waits between new albums -- but it looks like the band is speeding things up for its next release.

With its most recent album, 'Collapse Into Now,' a mere four months old, R.E.M. is already in an Athens, Georgia studio working on the follow-up -- and fans can follow their progress via a series of snapshots that singer Michael Stipe is posting along the way.

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