Funeral Mass for Adele R. Ryan (nee Rohr), age 88, of Wickliffe, a homemaker, will be 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, June 25, 2008, at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, 29850 Euclid Ave., Wickliffe.
Michael Stipe, lead singer of R.E.M., spent a great deal of time explicating on Thursday night, good-naturedly turning Madison Square Garden into a lecture hall.
R.E.M. called its latest album Accelerate, in tribute to its brisk tempos and brief running time. But considering the way it reverses the flagging vitality of 2004's Around the Sun, the band might as well have called the new record Defibrillate.
NEW YORK June 20, 2008, 01:20 pm ET · Michael Stipe thinks the music video is a "dead medium" but the R.E.M. singer still wants the band's songs to be accompanied by some kind of visuals.
Michael Stipe thinks the music video is a "dead medium" - but the R.E.M. singer still wants the band's songs to be accompanied by some kind of visuals. So instead of hiring a top video director to create a clip for their new song "Man-Sized Wreath," they hired an advertising agency and showed off their work to a sold-out crowd at their concert at Madison Square Garden.
Michael Stipe thinks the music video is a "dead medium" - but the R.E.M. singer still wants the band's songs to be accompanied by some kind of visuals. So instead of hiring a top video director to create a clip for their new song "Man-Sized Wreath," they hired an advertising agency. And rather than debut the finished clip on a music network, they took it directly to their fans Thursday night and
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