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TWO TIMES INTRO: ON THE ROAD WITH PATTI SMITH by Michael Stipe
reviewed by Vanessa Bennett

TWO TIMES INTRO: ON THE ROAD WITH PATTI SMITH by Michael Stipe

Akashic Books, 128 pages, hardcover $23.95 What happens when REM front man Michael Stipe and beloved alt-rock chick Patti Smith collide? You get a photo [...]

After 31 Years, REM Calls it Quits

After 31 Years, REM Calls it Quits

After 31 years, pioneering alternative rock band REM have called it quits. The band announced today on their website that they are through: “To our [...]

Watch a Clip of Michael Stipe-Produced Vic Chesnutt Documentary

Watch a Clip of Michael Stipe-Produced Vic Chesnutt Documentary

Via TwentyFourBit comes the news that Michael Stipe of REM will be producing a new documentary on the life and death of his longtime friend [...]

Remembering Vic Chesnutt
words by Mark Huddle

Remembering Vic Chesnutt

I’ve wanted to write seriously about Chesnutt for years. I hoped one day to do a long interview with him for Verbicide. I figured that now that I was back in Georgia the opportunities to talk to his friends and family might present themselves and I could do an even longer piece. Why not? Even with his personal life in turmoil, his career was on an extraordinary trajectory.