Set to arrive in AugustThe post R.E.M. to reissue their debut EP ‘Chronic Town’ to mark its 40th anniversary appeared first on NME.

He also performed versions of Audioslave's 'Getaway Car' and the theme to 'SpongeBob SquarePants'The post Watch Slipknot’s Corey Taylor cover R.E.M., Chris Isaak and more during acoustic set appeared first on NME.

After Adam Schlesinger died two years ago, there were a whole lot of touching tributes to the Fountains Of Wayne co-leader and power-pop songwriter. One of the most elaborate was a concert recorded at the Bowery Electric that was organized by his bandmate Jody Porter and was available as a video-on-demand livestream for a while last year. That v...

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A group of musicians gathered at St. Ann & The Holy Trinity Church in Brooklyn last night to pay tribute to Big Star. The self-described “one-of-a-kind acoustic, orchestrated performance” featured R.E.M.’s Mike Mills, Yo La Tengo’s Ira Kaplan, the dB’s’ Chris Stamey, Skylar Gud...