Written on September 22, 2011 by Lucy Coughlan
Taking a page from the Legendary Band Break Up Play Book, R.E.M., on the heels of announcing their break up last week, have announced that they will be releasing a career-spanning retrospective collection (after this, according to the Play Book, comes a series of unsuccessful solo albums, a few movie cameos, and then the band reunites at Coachella in 2021). The collection will be called Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage: 1982-2011, and it will be released November 15th.
According to Rolling Stone:
The set will feature three unreleased cuts – Hallelujah, A Month of Saturdays and We All Go Back to Where We Belong – that were completed after the band wrapped up their final album, Collapse Into Now.
The collection contains a survey of the band’s hits, concert highlights, and fan favorites. Dig the tracklisting below, via Rolling Stone:
Disc One:
Gardening at Night Radio Free Europe Talk About the Passion Sitting Still So. Central
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Written on September 22, 2011 by Dylan Ferguson
Jay-Z took a tongue-in-cheek shot at NBA superstar LeBron James on Monday as he christened the NBA team that will soon call his home borough home – the Brooklyn Nets.
The New Jersey Nets will take on their new name when the team moves next fall from Newark to the still-being-built Barclays Center on Atlantic Ave. in Prospect Heights.
Brooklyn-born Jay-Z, a part owner of the club, will rock the mike to open the new digs, but the rapper wouldn’t say how many concerts he will be giving. “Maybe one. Maybe two. Maybe three,” he said, adding a little joke, “I sound like LeBron.”
The rap mogul was making light of James’ declaration of how many NBA titles he would win when he joined the Miami Heat.
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Written on August 27, 2011 by Koby Jeffery
In preparing for the climax of Colombiana, Zoe Saldana loads as many oversized automatic weapons as she can find into an armored truck, I was taken back to the classic Schwarzenegger out-to-get-em films like Commando or even Raw Deal. No, AC/DC or Rolling Stones wasn’t blaring, and the bad guys are more savvy these days. But I still got that lovely sensation when the hair raised on my neck and the adrenaline ran to the tips of my front teeth because I knew that the bad guys were going to meet their maker.
Luc Besson who directed Léon: The Professional and wrote and produced Taken, knows a thing or two about igniting a blaze under the girls and gun fetish. He
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Written on August 27, 2011 by Dylan Ferguson
Brad Pitt plays a hero in many of his movies, and now he’s one in real life after saving a woman on the set of his new movie from being trampled.
It happened Thursday during a scene of “World War Z” in Glasgow, Scotland, when 700 extras were used to portray a zombie invasion, People magazine reported.
One woman slipped and Pitt was there to help her escape from being trampled.
The woman suffered only has a scrape on her knee, thanks to her new favorite movie star.
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Written on August 26, 2011 by Lucy Coughlan
If there’s any year it would seem reasonable to bet against a defending U.S. Open tennis champion, this might be the one. Rafael Nadal, the world’s second-ranked player, is entering this year’s U.S. Open, which begins on Monday, with a 2011 record that’s a dream for most pros. Nadal is 53-10 for the season, which is good for a .841 winning percentage.
But as impressive as that sounds, it’s actually a bit underwhelming for a 10-time Grand Slam champion. In fact, Nadal’s current 84% match-victory rate is his lowest since 2004, the year before he won his first Grand Slam title and began to threaten Roger Federer’s mid-decade dominance.
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