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  • Watch: Strangeways Radio + Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Week in Review: March 28-April 3, 2020

    Watch: Strangeways Radio + Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Week in Review: March 28-April 3, 2020

    • 4 April 2020
    • Strangeways Week in Review
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    Our good friends at Strangeways Radio are putting together a new week-in-review video that will recap the news posted at Slicing Up Eyeballs and on the Strangeways site throughout the preceding week, hosted by Velvet Rebel. Watch the full episode right here.

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  • Bill Rieflin, drummer for Ministry, Pigface, RevCo and R.E.M., dead at 59

    Bill Rieflin, drummer for Ministry, Pigface, RevCo and R.E.M., dead at 59

    • 24 March 2020
    • Obits
    • 2 comments

    Bill Rieflin, the thunderous drummer who made his name in Chicago’s late-’80s/early-’90s industrial scene pounding out beats for Ministry, Revolting Cocks, Pigface and more before manning the kit for R.E.M. over the last eight years of that band’s career, died on Tuesday of cancer, according to former bandmates. He was 59.

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  • Watch: Strangeways Radio + Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Week in Review: March 14-20, 2020

    Watch: Strangeways Radio + Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Week in Review: March 14-20, 2020

    • 20 March 2020
    • Strangeways Week in Review
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    Check out the latest installment right here — this week’s episode features items on The Pretenders, R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe, The Psychedelic Furs, Morrissey and U2’s Bono, plus a countdown of the top 10 albums by Depeche Mode as voted by Strangeways Radio fans. Watch the whole thing right here.

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  • Listen: Michael Stipe celebrates 60th birthday with new single ‘Drive to the Ocean’

    Listen: Michael Stipe celebrates 60th birthday with new single ‘Drive to the Ocean’

    • 4 January 2020
    • Digital Music, Single News, Video
    • 1 comment

    As promised, former R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe today followed up the October release of his debut solo single “Your Capricious Soul” with a second single, “Drive to the Ocean,” released on his 60th birthday. Like its predecessor, this single also benefit a climate action group. Hear it right here.

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  • Michael Stipe to release second solo single ‘Drive to the Ocean’ on his 60th birthday

    Michael Stipe to release second solo single ‘Drive to the Ocean’ on his 60th birthday

    • 31 December 2019
    • Single News
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    Former R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe will follow up the October release of his debut solo single “Your Capricious Soul” with a second single, “Drive to the Ocean,” to be released on his 60th birthday on Jan. 4. Like its predecessor, this single also benefit a climate action group. Details right here.

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  • Listen: R.E.M., ‘Let Me In’ — 2019 Scott Litt remix (off deluxe ‘Monster’ reissue)

    Listen: R.E.M., ‘Let Me In’ — 2019 Scott Litt remix (off deluxe ‘Monster’ reissue)

    • 10 October 2019
    • Digital Music
    • 0 comments

    R.E.M. continues to tease fans with tastes of its newly remixed version of Monster, this time previewing the massive reissue of the 1994 album with original producer Scott Litt’s new take on “Let Me In,” the spare, wall-of-sound tribute to Kurt Cobain that anchored that record. Check it out right here.

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  • Hear R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe’s first-ever solo single ‘Your Capricious Soul’

    Hear R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe’s first-ever solo single ‘Your Capricious Soul’

    • 5 October 2019
    • Digital Music
    • 1 comment

    Michael Stipe today released his debut solo single, the synthy “Your Capricious Soul,” which comes a full eight years after the breakup of R.E.M. The song can be purchased for download from Stipe’s website, with proceeds benefiting the climate action group Extinction Rebellion. Hear it right here.

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  • Michael Stipe to release debut solo single ‘Your Capricious Soul’ this weekend

    Michael Stipe to release debut solo single ‘Your Capricious Soul’ this weekend

    • 2 October 2019
    • Single News
    • 4 comments

    Eight years after the breakup of R.E.M., the band’s former frontman Michael Stipe is ready to release his debut solo single, a song called “Your Capricious Soul” that he’s been playing live and will be released digitally this weekend to benefit the climate action group Extinction Rebellion. Full details here.

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  • Listen: R.E.M., ‘What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?’ — 2019 Scott Litt remix

    Listen: R.E.M., ‘What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?’ — 2019 Scott Litt remix

    • 3 September 2019
    • Digital Music
    • 8 comments

    R.E.M. is offering the first taste of Scott Litt’s new remix of Monster — part of the upcoming 6-disc box set marking the 25th anniversary of that album — via a worked-over version of the record’s first single, the Dan Rather-paraphrasing “What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?” Hear it right here.

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  • R.E.M.’s 6-disc ‘Monster’ reissue to feature newly remixed album, unheard demos, live set

    R.E.M.’s 6-disc ‘Monster’ reissue to feature newly remixed album, unheard demos, live set

    • 3 September 2019
    • Box Sets, Reissues, Tracklist
    • 3 comments

    R.E.M. will celebrate the 25th anniversary of its grunge-era return-to-rock Monster this fall with a 6-disc box set that will include previously unheard demos, an unreleased live concert, the “Road Movie” film and a newly remixed version of the album by original producer Scott Litt. See full details, including tracklist, right here.

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  • Watch: R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe performs 3 new songs while opening for Patti Smith in NYC

    Watch: R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe performs 3 new songs while opening for Patti Smith in NYC

    • 6 May 2019
    • Video
    • 6 comments

    Former R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe performed a pair of new songs during a short opening set for Patti Smith at New York City’s Webster Hall, performing the electronics-backed “Your Capricious Soul” and “Drive to the Ocean” with help from Andy LeMaster of Now It’s Overhead. Watch them here.

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