The vinyl version that comes with a bonus 45 featuring the non-album tracks ""Brand New Stone" b/w "Everywhere With Helicopter".

R.E.M.HQ has posted these two separate clips for "We All Go Back To Where We Belong", the first single off of Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage: 1982 - 2011 which comes out on November 15:

You can buy both albums at Amazon. If you're on a budget, you can usually find some pretty good deals on used CDs there.

Some tunes by the Firm get a good amount of airplay on XM's Deep Tracks channel.

From the newly released 25th Anniversary Bridge School Benefit DVD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ezNjJyD4rY

Glanced through this at the bookstore earlier this evening and it looks to be a very fun read. It's the long awaited sequel to the Official Book of the Deadheads which came out way back in '83.

There's no need to use the embed feature. As Sam mentioned in this thread: "simply paste the YouTube 'share' link on its own, and it'll turn into an embedded video when you post."

To my knowledge, this electronic press kit for Out of Time has never been uploaded to YouTube but it's online now via R.E.M.'s official channel. I recall seeing bits and pieces of this on MTV and Night Flight (on the USA Network) back when Out of Time first came out but I've never seen the entire thing until now.

This clip was posted on the previous page of this thread, thus the ensuing conversation about it.

Mount Moriah & Alexi Murdoch at Reynolds Industries Theatre on the campus of Duke University in Durham, NC earlier tonight. This was a last minute decision but hearing that it would be Mount Moriah's last full band appearance for the remainder of 2011 cinched it for me. I was not familiar at all with the works of Alexi Murdoch but I enjoyed his set as well. It was a bit sedate but still very good.

Dave Wilson of Chatham County Line and Lynn Blakey (Tres Chicas, Glory Fountain, Oh OK) at the Cave in Chapel Hill this past Thursday night.

From the All Things Music page on Facebook: ON THIS DATE (42 YEARS AGO) October 22, 1969 – Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II is released. # ALL THINGS MUSIC PLUS+ 5/5 # Allmusic 5/5 stars # Rolling Stone (see original Rolling Stone review below) Led Zeppelin II is the second studio album by Led Zeppelin, released on this date in October 1969 on Atlantic Records. Recording sessions for the album took place at several locations in the United Kingdom and North America from January to August 1969. Production was entirely credited to lead guitarist and songwriter Jimmy Page, while it also served as Led Zeppelin's first album to utilise the recording techniques of engineer Eddie Kramer. Led Zeppelin II furthered the lyrical themes established on their debut album, creating a work that became more widely acclaimed and influential than its predecessor. With elements of blues and folk music, it also exhibits the band's evolving musical style of blues-derived material and their guitar and riff-based sound. It is the heaviest album of the band. Upon release, Led Zeppelin II earned a considerable amount of sales and was Led Zeppelin's first album to reach #1 in the UK and the US. In 1970, art director David Juniper was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Recording Package for the album. On 15 November 1999, it was certified 12x Platinum by the RIAA for sales in excess of 12 million copies. Following its initial reception, it has been recognised by writers and music critics as one of the greatest and most influential rock albums ever recorded. ORIGINAL ROLLING STONE REVIEW By John Mendelsohn December 13, 1969 Hey, man, I take it all back! This is one fucking heavyweight of the album! OK — I'll concede that until you've listened to the album eight hundred times, as I have, it seems as if it's just one especially heavy song extended over the space of two whole sides. But, hey! you've got to admit that the Zeppelin has their distinctive and enchanting formula down stone-cold, man. Like you get the impression they could do it in their sleep. And who can deny that Jimmy Page is the absolute number-one heaviest white blues guitarist between 5'4" and 5'8" in the world?? Shit, man, on this album he further demonstrates that he could absolutely fucking shut down any whitebluesman alive, and with one fucking hand tied behind his back too. "Whole Lotta Love," which opens the album, has to be the heaviest thing I've run across (or, more accurately, that's run across me) since "Parchmant Farm" on Vincebus Eruptum. Like I listened to the break (Jimmy wrenching some simply indescribable sounds out of his axe while your stereo goes ape-shit) on some heavy Vietnamese weed and very nearly had my mind blown. Hey, I know what you're thinking. "That's not very objective." But dig: I also listened to it on mescaline, some old Romilar, Novocain, and ground up Fusion, and it was just as mind-boggling as before. I must admit I haven't listened to it straight yet — I don't think a group this heavy is best enjoyed that way. Anyhow . . . Robert Plant, who is rumored to sing some notes on this record that only dogs can hear, demonstrates his heaviness on "The Lemon Song." When he yells "Shake me 'til the juice runs down my leg," you can't help but flash on the fact that the lemon is a cleverly-disguised phallic metaphor. Cunning Rob, sticking all this eroticism in between the lines just like his blues-beltin' ancestors! And then (then) there's "Moby Dick," which will be for John Bonham what "Toad" has been for Baker. John demonstrates on this track that had he half a mind he could shut down Baker even without sticks, as most of his intriguing solo is done with bare hands. The album ends with a far-out blues number called "Bring It On Home," during which Rob contributes some very convincing moaning and harp-playing, and sings "Wadge da train roll down da track." Who said that white men couldn't sing blues? I mean, like, who? ***** TRACKS: Side One "Whole Lotta Love" (John Bonham/Willie Dixon/John Paul Jones/Jimmy Page/Robert Plant) 5:34 "What Is and What Should Never Be" (Page/Plant) 4:47 "The Lemon Song" (Bonham/Burnett/Jones/Page/Plant) 6:20 "Thank You" (Page/Plant) 4:47 Side Two “Heartbreaker" (Bonham/Jones/Page/Plant) 4:15 "Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman)" (Page/Plant) 2:40 "Ramble On" (Page/Plant) 4:35 "Moby Dick" (Bonham/Jones/Page) 4:25 "Bring It On Home" (Page/Plant/Dixon) 4:19

Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs doing "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere" by Neil Young & Crazy Horse:

Shelby Lynne doing the Stones' "Dead Flowers": http://youtu.be/vKOAryfQSqo

R.E.M., Robyn Hitchcock, Billy Bragg and others covering Jimmie Dale Gilmore's "Dallas" on NPR's Mountain Stage circa April 28th, 1991: Another version of "Dallas" with Michael Stipe, Natalie Merchant and Billy Bragg from a tour they did together in 1990:

If anything, Plant's material was very telling of the times. If not for the drum machines that were prominent on most of his records during that era, there was also the whole of Shaken Not Stirred. As for rock n' roll going against the grain of the 80s and not getting a very warm reception I give you Stevie Ray Vaughan but he was just the tip of the iceberg.

From the deluxe edition of Some Girls which is due for release on November 21st. http://youtu.be/mkZ2CCVlXuE