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Watch The Baseball Project Cover the Beatles With a Little Help From Bill Berry and Mike Mills

By Justin Jacobs on 9:23 AM on October 1, 2009

Baseball, the pass time of America, is a whole lot of fun. It's only fitting, then, that the Baseball Project, the pass time of some of America's finest rockers, is a total party. The Baseball Project is a comprised of Steve Wynn and Linda Pitmon of Steve Wynn and the Miracle 3, Scott McCaughey of Minus 5 and R.E.M.'s Peter Buck. The band was created around its members' undying love of, yes, baseball. One song on The Project's album Volume One: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails is even called "Ted Fucking Williams."...  read more

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All The Right Friends: On R.E.M.'s Carnegie Hall Tribute and Benefit Concert

By Henry Freedland on 2:05 PM on March 12, 2009

There's an old and unavoidable joke, usually told by hectoring music teachers or waggish elders. You've probably heard it. The set-up goes, "How do you get to Carnegie Hall?" The punchline? "Practice, practice, practice."...  read more

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R.E.M. adds tour dates, Peter Buck's guitar stolen

By Loren Lankford on 11:38 AM on September 16, 2008

R.E.M. may have gotten its musical mojo back with its latest record Accelerate earlier this year, but it seems it lost something else along the way....  read more

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Merge Records celebrates first 20 years with box set

By Loren Lankford on 4:40 PM on August 25, 2008

Merge Records, home to many of indie rock's finest...  read more

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Mike Watt, Lee Ranaldo, more set James Joyce to music

By Henry Freedland on 11:20 AM on June 24, 2008

[Above: Lee Ronaldo and James Joyce]We keep our ears pretty low to the ground where literate music is concerned, so news of producer James Nichols' project using James Joyce's poetry sent our wee minds a-reeling. The author of Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Finnegan's Wake has inspired popular music for years—Jefferson Airplane, Lou Reed and Van Morrison are only three of the most famous Joyce-referencers—but rarely has he received such extensive treatment this side of the high art/low art seesaw....  read more

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