R.E.M.'s new album, "Accelerate," is due out April 1, and is said to be a return to rock roots.
All of them have an intensity to them, but some have got more rock roots maybe than others.
What is good about the show is that it also seems to release something in Lloyd Webber, and allows him to return to the rock roots of his past.
By John Donohue August 12, 2008 R.E.M.'s new album, "Accelerate," is due out April 1, and is said to be a return to rock roots.
ROCK JUNKET- ROCK N' ROLL WALKING TOURS, Wednesday through next Friday at 1 p.m., and Feb. 9 at 11 a.m., covering the rock roots of the East Village, meeting on the southwest corner of East Ninth Street and Third Avenue.
ROCK JUNKET -- ROCK N ROLL WALKING TOURSRS Wednesday, Thursday and next Friday at 1 p.m., and March 15 at 11 a.m., covering the rock roots of the East Village, meeting on the southwest corner of East Ninth Street and Third Avenue.
★ Banjo Summit with BÉla Fleck (Sunday) A top crop of bluegrass musicians, including the Grammy Award-winning Mr. Fleck, push the limits of their preferred instrument in rock, roots, classical and jazz jams.
Due to creative tensions and the direction the band was taking - Foreigner's Mick Jones favoured synthesizer ballads; Gramm wanted to stay true to their rock roots - the singer duly left the band to form Shadow King in 1991.
When Michael Stipe told that to a concert crowd a while back, they thought he was joking — every R.E.M. album since "Monster" has been called a return to rock roots, and the April 1 date seemed like a tipoff.
In Tuareg groups like Tinariwen, Etran Finatawa and Bombino's band, electric-guitar rock — rooted in African and Arabic traditions but aware of Bob Marley and Jimi Hendrix — has carried songs of rebellion, mourning, perseverance and reconciliation.
