Michael Stipe, lead singer of R.E.M., spent a great deal of time explicating on Thursday night, good-naturedly turning Madison Square Garden into a lecture hall.
R.E.M. called its latest album Accelerate, in tribute to its brisk tempos and brief running time. But considering the way it reverses the flagging vitality of 2004's Around the Sun, the band might as well have called the new record Defibrillate.
Funeral Mass for Adele R. Ryan (nee Rohr), age 88, of Wickliffe, a homemaker, will be 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, June 25, 2008, at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, 29850 Euclid Ave., Wickliffe.
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NEW YORK June 20, 2008, 01:20 pm ET · Michael Stipe thinks the music video is a "dead medium" but the R.E.M. singer still wants the band's songs to be accompanied by some kind of visuals.
Two Petersburg men died during a one-car crash in Dinwiddie County last night, police said. About 10:10 p.m., a 1996 Honda Accord traveling northbound on state Route 680 nearly two miles north of Halligan Park Road ran off the road, hit a water-filled ditch and overturned, State Police Sgt. Thomas A. Cunningham said. Eric Robinson, 29, and James R. Phillips, 39, died at the scene, police said. A
Michael Stipe thinks the music video is a "dead medium" - but the R.E.M. singer still wants the band's songs to be accompanied by some kind of visuals. So instead of hiring a top video director to create a clip for their new song "Man-Sized Wreath," they hired an advertising agency and showed off their work to a sold-out crowd at their concert at Madison Square Garden.