Ga. county buys late folk artist's Paradise Garden Palm Beach Post By AP | Music News | February 08, 2012 A northwest Georgia county has bought the garden where the late folk artist Howard Finster held court for tourists and art lovers from around the world. Chattooga County, where Paradise Garden has been based since ...
For REM Fans, Tunes May Linger But Trestle Faces Day of Reckoning Wall Street Journal The image appeared on the back of "Murmur," with a song list and photos of the four band members. As REM became famous internationally, fans made pilgrimages to Athens, and many searched for the trestle. It definitely wasn't for shiny happy people.
Innovative pianist to play at BGSU Toledo Blade And he has arranged for solo piano mega-hits by Pink Floyd, REM, Portishead, Nirvana, the Bad Plus, the Smiths, and Tears for Fears, among others. Nothing is beyond his reach, if he's drawn to a song. His take is usually more romantic and complex, ...
The B-52's Celebrate 35 Years With Hometown Party RollingStone.com With the recent disbanding of REM, the B-52's became the last remaining vestige of Athens' college-rock origins, the final band from that first wave of talent that gave the town its first real musical presence, opening the metaphorical door for future ...
Yellow Tie Guy, Mark Stevens and Jay Armsworthy So Md News This CD rocks right out of the blocks with “How Could I?” As an unbiased listener tuning into Hill's work for the first time, my impressions from this first song were that I could have been listening to Stone Temple Pilots or REM.
Music preview: Ivan Gutiérrez Prague Post Gutiérrez, born in 1967 in New York to Colombian parents, first came to Prague in 1993 with a Czech girlfriend from university and immediately began looking for musicians to perform with. "I only wanted to play with people who knew the Latin idiom," ...
Two American Originals, Carbon Leaf & Adam Ezra, come to the Flying Monkey on ... NewHampshire.com Known for an eclectic and infectious blend of Folk-Rock, Americana, Celtic, Bluegrass, & Pop on Rock, the Boston Globe describes Carbon Leaf as “subtle REM-flavored pop meets Outlaws-like rock/bluegrass.” Adam Ezra, known for a dynamic acoustic ...
Country music helps boost tourism in Peach State Fox News 9, as well as REM and Widespread Panic. Visitors come from as far away as the United Kingdom and Germany. “Athens goes beyond offering music history tours, though-- hundreds of bands still call Athens home and perform nightly in downtown clubs,” Smith ...
