http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes Stay plugged into the A with Creative Loafing's music blog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:19:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2009/10/15/rem-and-tom-waits-are-alive-and-free/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2009/10/15/rem-and-tom-waits-are-alive-and-free/#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:08:39 +0000 Curt Holman http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/?p=11842 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2009/10/15/rem-and-tom-waits-are-alive-and-free/feed/ 0 Free downloads of live recordings from Georgia's REM and Tom Waits. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2009/08/24/rem-release-live-at-the-olympia-on-oct-26/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2009/08/24/rem-release-live-at-the-olympia-on-oct-26/#comments Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:43:52 +0000 Chad Radford http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/?p=9981 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2009/08/24/rem-release-live-at-the-olympia-on-oct-26/feed/ 0 New 39 song live set covers everything from Chronic Town to Accelerate http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2009/07/27/rem-reckoning-deluxe-edition/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2009/07/27/rem-reckoning-deluxe-edition/#comments Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:00:47 +0000 Chad Radford http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/?p=9269 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2009/07/27/rem-reckoning-deluxe-edition/feed/ 0 The '84 follow-up to Murmur shows the effects of fresh, world-weary exposure on the group. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2009/06/19/athens-historic-georgia-theatre-burns/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2009/06/19/athens-historic-georgia-theatre-burns/#comments Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:16:33 +0000 Chad Radford http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/?p=8217 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2009/06/19/athens-historic-georgia-theatre-burns/feed/ 1 This morning the AJC reported that the famed Athens music venue the Georgia Theatre was engulfed in flames shortly after 7 a.m. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/11/21/photographs-by-thomas-dozol-opal-gallery-nov-20-jan-10/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/11/21/photographs-by-thomas-dozol-opal-gallery-nov-20-jan-10/#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:09:00 +0000 Chad Radford http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/?p=3525 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/11/21/photographs-by-thomas-dozol-opal-gallery-nov-20-jan-10/feed/ 4 Thomas Dozol 's portrait series "I'll Be Your Mirror" reveals the human body right after a shower. Each portrait examines a unique moment of contemplation and self-reflection. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/10/24/remtrospective-up/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/10/24/remtrospective-up/#comments Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:08:40 +0000 Curt Holman http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/?p=2775 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/10/24/remtrospective-up/feed/ 1 An album-by-album retrospective of the work from Athens' R.E.M. considers 'Up,' the group's first C.D. following the departure of drummer Bill Berry. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/10/20/rem%e2%80%99s-murmur-gets-expanded-and-reissued/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/10/20/rem%e2%80%99s-murmur-gets-expanded-and-reissued/#comments Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:35:20 +0000 Chad Radford http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/?p=2649 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/10/20/rem%e2%80%99s-murmur-gets-expanded-and-reissued/feed/ 3 Even people who cannot stand R.E.M. (for the most part) will concede that Murmur was and still is a great album. Twenty five years after its release the album is arguably R.E.M.'s finest hour... To celebrate, Murmur is receiving the deluxe remaster/reissue treatment via I.R.S./UMe and due out Nov. 25th. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/09/26/remtrospective-12-new-adventures-in-hi-fi/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/09/26/remtrospective-12-new-adventures-in-hi-fi/#comments Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:37:23 +0000 Curt Holman http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/?p=2114 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/09/26/remtrospective-12-new-adventures-in-hi-fi/feed/ 0 Title: New Adventures in Hi-Fi Released on: Sept. 9, 1996 Favorite tracks: “The Wake-Up Bomb,” “Undertow,” “E-Bow the Letter,” “Leave” In 1997, about a year after New Adventures in Hi-Fi came out, my wife and I bought the house in which we still live. For the previous five years, we’d lived in a place with a dishwasher but [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/09/19/remtrospective-11-monster/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/09/19/remtrospective-11-monster/#comments Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:24:00 +0000 Curt Holman http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/09/19/remtrospective-11-monster/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/09/19/remtrospective-11-monster/feed/ 0 Title: Monster Released on: Sept. 26, 1994 Favorite tracks: “King of Comedy,” “Star 69” After the relatively low-key, mellow tones of Automatic for the People, REM clearly wanted to turn the amplifiers up to 11 and rock out again with Monster. In one interview, guitarist Peter Buck described Monster as “a ‘rock’ record, with the rock in quotation [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/09/12/remtrospective-10-automatic-for-the-people/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/09/12/remtrospective-10-automatic-for-the-people/#comments Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:49:54 +0000 Curt Holman http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/09/12/remtrospective-10-automatic-for-the-people/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/09/12/remtrospective-10-automatic-for-the-people/feed/ 0 Title: Automatic for the People Released on: Oct. 5, 1992 Favorite tracks: [None] If the REMtrospective’s have so far seemed like an aging fan’s on-line admiration society (“See you next tour!”), well, now we come to Automatic For the People. Huge hit. Three top 40 hits in the U.S. and U.K., 75 weeks on the album charts [...]