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...also signed part of the document. “A united Europe is not only living up to its potential, it is also excluding war as a political means, since motives to conquer foreign territories will simply not exist in a united Europe,” said Croatian President Stipe Mesic the day after the event. Mesic, in Rome with observer status, hopes that his country will begin negotiations for EU accession in the near future. Of the six countries which emerged in the 1990s from the former Yugoslavia, only Slovenia has joined the EU. Despite the usual European carnival...
...album of jazz standards; the plight of rock stars bereft of new material can’t help but make us sad. In this grand tradition, R.E.M’s new album, Around the Sun, is at some points so frankly ill-advised that one wonders if Michael Stipe had his ostrich feather boa tied too tightly, cutting off essential blood circulation to his brain...
...linking ticket sales to its website, and organizers expect to raise $10 million to fund Democratic voter-mobilization group America Coming Together, but the truth is that the goals of the tour are abstract. "I don't want to come off as naive," says R.E.M. lead singer Michael Stipe, "but I put a lot of faith in music. It's an emotional medium. I mean, how could someone fail to be inspired to think about our country after hearing Bruce Springsteen...
...drive down, I decided to go with something else." That something else was an acoustic version of The Star Spangled Banner that segued into an explosive Born in the U.S.A. Springsteen barely paused between songs in his set and traded verses with guest John Fogerty on Fortunate Son and Stipe on Because the Night. As always, he crammed as much American mythology as possible into his vocal cords. "That's our job as artists," he said later. "We're here to sing and be inspired and hopefully inspire other people too." Of course, that's what politics is supposed...
With the recent release of their double album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, Outkast have become somewhat of a hip-hop R.E.M. The similarities speak for themselves: André 3000 and Big Boi have followed a path strikingly parallel to Michael Stipe and the boys—rising from underground success (both in the South, no less) to the top of the charts and pushing the boundaries of their sound even at the height of their popularity. Casual radio listeners are hooked by the catchy singles; more are captivated by their engaging lyrical content and constant musical experimentation; and college students everywhere...