kiKo's blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Michael Stipe is a multifaceted artist, singer for the band REM, producer, director or actor, he exercises his imagination in all areas that inspire. He collaborate with Martin Margiela in Limited Edition of accessories. Only 199 pieces and at least 32 ways to style it . Source: The FADER
The KEXP Blog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Last year, R.E.M. released their fourteenth album Accelerate … a very astute title, since the band recorded it during a quick nine-week schedule, a much faster pace than they were used to working in. Bassist Mike Mills suggested they work out the new songs in a live setting, as they’d done in the past, so the band took a five day residency at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin, Ireland. They...
Sweet Fancy Treat (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
W hen fashion meets other related areas, it can only mean one thing: supreme stuff. This time it's about a collaboration between Michael Stipe, lead-singer of R.E.M., and... Maison Martin Margiela. Now, before I go about what all of this means, I must share with you the very first question that came to mind: "Did he get to meet the mysterious Margiela?" Nobody knows for sure how Margiela...
My hmphs (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
I think I have an unwritten rule for my blog that says if I write a post about U2, I must follow with one about R.E.M. They are infused almost as one band into my collective psyche; I followed them religiously during the mid- to late-80s. And so, a few weeks after my top 10 U2 [...]
Luxist (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
I wouldn't exactly call the new collaboration between R.E.M. frontman and Martin Margiela a jewelry line. It's hard to know what to call it. The limited edition (199 pieces) Michael Stipe x Margiela collaboration is a silver microcassette with a little bit of unraveled tape which can be worn a variety of ways according to the press image. It can be worn as jewelry, tied into your hair, worn on a shoe...
fashionmagazine.com (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The Jil Sander collection for Uniqlo was welcomed with such open arms that the designer is collaborating on a second collection for the Japanese brand. It’s set to launch for Spring 2010. Also on her second lap, Stella McCartney for Gap Kids, with a collection also in the works for spring. [Fashionista] In celebrity-turned-designer news, R.E.M.’s [...]
prefixmag (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The last R.E.M. studio album, Accelerate , is over 18 months old, and Michael Stipe and his band have been back in the studio working on its follow-up. The producer of their last record, Jacknife Lee, in on board once again, and some video footage from the sessions has surfaced on the official R.E.M. website. The brief clips don’t offer a great deal of insight into the sessions, although a heavily...
shefinds (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
1. We may not be tots, but we’re happy to hear that Stella McCartney signed on to do another GapKids collection. After all, it’s not like adults were exactly precluded from wearing the first one. [Elle UK] 2. R.E.M. singer Michael Stipe collaborated with enigmatic fashion house Martin Margiela on a lone accessory – a sterling [...] More Like This: News: SATC Goes Sex And The Souk,...
Hypetrak (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Maison Martin Margiela and R.E.M. lead singer Michael Stipe are in the midst of launching a collaborative piece of jewelry. With an uncertainty to exactly what medium the piece represents, this lends to a great deal of versatility in its application as marked by a number of different uses in the collage of imagery. The [...]
Hint Blog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
There was a reason Michael Stipe couldn't be spotted at the Paris shows sans his Margiela mono-shield (including after hours at Le Baron). It turns out the R.E.M. frontman had been in cahoots with...
Consequence of Sound (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The excitement continues...
Stereogum (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Michael Stipe takes us on a brief studio tour to watch he and R.E.M. work on their forthcoming album with Jacknife Lee. The clips are short, but they give a sense of the sound. (The 31 second mark of clip #2 might also give you a heart attack.) Enter REM HQ .
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Filed under: News , Album , New Music R.E.M. is at work in a Portland, Ore. studio on the follow-up to its 2008 comeback album, 'Accelerate.' Word of the studio activity came cryptically this week when guitarist Peter Buck posted this photo of singer Michael Stipe standing in the company of producer Jacknife Lee, producer/engineer Tom McFall and sound engineer Sam Bell. If Buck's photo wasn't enough...
Line Out (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Former Turn-Ons frontman Travis DeVries releases his lushly melodic, Britpop-accented album, Death to God , under the group name deVries today on Noise on Noise Records. The record was produced and mixed by the great local studio guru Erik Blood and mastered by Kramer (ex-Butthole Surfers, ex-Bongwater, ex-Shockabilly, etc.). You can download a couple of tracks from the full-length, "Slowing...
Consequence of Sound (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
A picture can say a lot of things... like a thousand words, right?
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