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R.E.M. Accelerates

"...5 and Mike Mills played with Syd Straw, while Michael Stipe held court on the sidewalk.” That’s this morning’s..."

March 12, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Short Cuts

Movin' on up: MoveOn.org, Steve Bilich, Bennie Klain, and Kyle Henry.

"...important names in the film and entertainment industry, including Michael Mann, Jessica Lange, Gus Van Sant, Michael Moore, Jack..."

Dec. 5, 2003 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

American Filmmaker

Chris Smith's American Movie depicts one man's passionate struggle to make a film.

"...at Chicago selling T-shirts in the lobby last night. Michael Stipe was selling tapes in Toronto...."

Oct. 15, 1999 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Where There’s a Willie…

Billy Bob documents Willie Nelson in The King of Luck

"...of short films from R.E.M.’s latest album, curated by Michael Stipe, who’ll stick around for a Q&A after...."

March 2, 2011 SXSW Post by Kimberley Jones

Book Reviews

"...Maybe this is why Trail Fever by Michael Lewis (Knopf, $25 hard) proves exceptional. Held to the..."

July 4, 1997 Books Feature

R.E.M.

"...and their 1999 set at Glastonbury Festival. They capture Michael Stipe at peak frontman, confident even if by '99..."

Dec. 7, 2018 Music Review by Doug Freeman

Celebrity Crush

We've all got 'em, crushes on celebrities. At least, that's the premise of Refraction Arts' Celebrity Crush, and a bunch of talented artists reveal theirs in some quite entertaining ways.

"...for me. She begins her piece by actually becoming Michael Stipe through the use of a life-size puppet, lip-syncing..."

March 8, 2002 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

The AggreGAYtor: October 28

What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.

"...Michael Stipe thinks that his coming out 20 years ago..."

Oct. 28, 2014 Qmmunity Post by David Estlund

The AggreGAYtor: June 27

What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.

"...Michael Stipe waited five years before his first HIV test..."

June 27, 2014 Qmmunity Post by David Estlund

After a Fashion

Stephen ponders his career in radio and what to wear for it

"...sounded like the love child of Neil Young and Michael Stipe and that some of the music was so..."

June 29, 2007 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

After a Fashion: Thursday

Your Style Avatar dishes the style dirt at SXSW!

"...new solo album. Yea, Carrie! (Was that really R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe we saw there?)... It seems I can hardly..."

March 17, 2006 Features Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Sheiks of Industry

Austin record labels, part 1

"...Misra: Charging Michael Stipe Search for "misra" on the Internet, and you'll..."

Nov. 14, 2003 Music Feature by David Lynch

R.E.M.

"...the Athens, Ga., quartet felt fame's fickle grip, frontman Michael Stipe unable to eschew the spotlight amid increasing rumors..."

Dec. 8, 2017 Music Review by Doug Freeman

Record Store Day Unearths a Roky Erickson Rarity

Reanimating one of the great Austin tributes

"...Michael Stipe's singing sometimes sounds like Roky's. Something yearning unites..."

April 21, 2017 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

Vic Chesnutt

Record review

"...and West of Rome, were produced by longtime supporter Michael Stipe and showcase Chesnutt's DIY ethic with a sound..."

June 25, 2004 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...Eyes bandmate Conor Oberst as well as Athens icon Michael Stipe. – Darcie Stevens..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

The Snow Queen

This book by the author of The Hours is a frozen confection of a novel, at once simple and intricate – and gorgeous

"...by Michael Cunningham Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 272 pp., $26..."

May 16, 2014 Arts Review by Amy Gentry

Off the Record

The Butthole Surfers reunite, Sarah Jarosz paddles up Nickel Creek, and Shearwater soars to new heights

"...Brothers Jared and Michael Bell of Lymbyc Systym have one of those left-..."

May 23, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Carolyn Wonderland ties the knot while Gary Clark Jr. gets pulled up to the majors and a sea of SXSW news

"...joining together of man and musician by the Monkees' Michael Nesmith (scope "Circle Sky," Feb. 18). Having met at..."

March 11, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Crossroads 3

I went up to the Crossroads – and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – fell down on my knees

"...– Georgia's R.E.M., which soundtracked Lifes Rich Pageant with Michael Stipe howling "Cuyahoga."..."

July 2, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

All-Star Austin Contingent Gets Out the Vote Covering R.E.M

A. Sinclair, Jana Horn & Royal Forest cover “scathing satire”

"...the Middle of the Night EP in March, delivered Michael Stipe’s lead vocal parts, while Jana Horn applies her..."

Oct. 13, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re playing

"...Gaby Moreno), while the electro throb on "Y2K" whiffs Michael Stipe's eau de Andy Kaufman. "Only Love" sounds like..."

May 29, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Levitation Imaginings

Sat., 9:35pm, Reverberation stage

"...Mandy Moore & Michael Stipe, "God Only Knows" (2004): Pairing from Saved! soundtrack..."

April 29, 2016 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Naked If I Want To

Magnum opus on one of rock & roll's Rosetta Stones: 1967's Moby Grape

"...Golden Palominos on Visions of Excess (1985), with R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe on lead vocal...."

Jan. 8, 2010 Music Feature by Louis Black

TCB

If John Lennon had attended this weekend's ACL Fest blowout he might have screamed, "I've got blisters on my feet!"

"...Friday dawned cool and cloudy as Zykos frontman Michael Booher and manager Sally Clark searched in vain along..."

Sept. 26, 2003 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Zykos

Texas Platters

"...Bursting through the clouds are the compelling cries of Michael Booher, his nasal, gritty voice carrying a peculiar cadence..."

May 16, 2003 Music Review by Michael Chamy

Dancing About Architecture

Barton Springs Eternal

"...the suggestion that local "supergroup" the Setters (Alejandro Escovedo, Michael Hall, and Walter Salas-Humara) had signed a deal with..."

Aug. 20, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Record Reviews

"...ambition it took to corral sources as disparate as Michael Stipe, Hunter S. Thompson, Johnny Depp, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti..."

Aug. 15, 1997 Music Review

Behind the Tall Tales of Lester Bangs in Texas

Lester's Last Stand

"...editor of Lester's Blondie biography, that Peter Buck and Michael Stipe met their rock-critic hero, a scene that was..."

March 7, 1997 Books Feature

Live Shots

"...nor selling an image. Singer Adam Duritz doesn't have Michael Stipe's "I'm-bigger-than-the-world" pretension, nor does he have Eddie Vedder's..."

Jan. 31, 1997 Music Feature

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