POSTGAME NOTES: Starters may have to share Posey equally, Sandoval’s...
They’re playing out of their gourd and everyone knows that won’t last with their pitching. Yes, subtract the Giants’ sweep of Colorado at AT&T and the Rocks are 10-1. But of their 13 wins, they’re...
View ArticleNightlife Agenda: Welcome back, Tracks edition
Every Tuesday, the Going Out Gurus highlight the week’s best DJs, bands, dance nights and parties. DJs from Tracks — shown here at its 1999 closing party — take over three clubs this weekend to honor...
View Article“Other Desert Cities,” Robyn Hitchcock and Peter Buck and No Scrubs top this...
weekend’s best in music, nightlife and family events. Robyn Hitchcock performs at the 9:30 club with his friend Peter Buck. (Michéle Noach) Friday: For the few District residents who have been in the...
View ArticleBeef rolling heading into matchup with Lincoln
more through the air, two safeties, a defensive touchdown and a kickoff return for a score in a 70-13 victory at winless Mid-Missouri last week. Of the nine Beef possessions, only the final one of the...
View ArticleFirst Listen: Sean Nelson, 'Make Good Choices'
he'd devoted years of intermittent tinkering. Recorded with an assortment of sure-handed all-stars, including R.E.M.'s Peter Buck and Death Cab for Cutie's Chris Walla, Make Good Choices fits perfectly...
View ArticleBeef dominant against Defenders
the opening kickoff 35 yards. Omaha's defense stuffed Oklahoma's opening possession with a stop on fourth-and-inches by Peter Buck and Chris Bradford. Buck was in on all four tackles on that drive,...
View Article“Hooray, we’re done”: The inside story behind R.E.M.’s disbandment
Allocating the time to record it, as a band, with Stipe, was easier considered than done, however, given that the members remained constantly in motion. Michael Stipe continued to engage his multiple...
View ArticleNightlife Agenda: Welcome back, Tracks edition
Every Tuesday, the Going Out Gurus highlight the week’s best DJs, bands, dance nights and parties. DJs from Tracks — shown here at its 1999 closing party — take over three clubs this weekend to honor...
View Article“Other Desert Cities,” Robyn Hitchcock and Peter Buck and No Scrubs top this...
weekend’s best in music, nightlife and family events. Robyn Hitchcock performs at the 9:30 club with his friend Peter Buck. (Michéle Noach) Friday: For the few District residents who have been in the...
View ArticleEarly Buzz: 'Doctor Who,' R.E.M. and more
had a good time with my mother-in-law and managed to finish Season 4 of Arrested Development! Will share my thoughts on that soon. For now, some headlines: - The former members of R.E.M. performed at...
View ArticleHow to Be the Old Guy at the Music Festival
music cornerstone Maxwell's would be closing for good in July. It was a small room of 200, but Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth, Peter Buck of R.E.M., Bob Mould of Husker Du and Sugar all thought enough of...
View ArticleOprah’s Smithsonian gift: How she ranks among other big donors
she is giving the museum $12 million , its largest gift thus far, on top of the $1 million she gave in 2007. (Read more: Oprah Winfrey donates $12 million to Smithsonian ) Who has given more to the...
View ArticleSuperman in pop music: Bulletproof hits, lumps of kryptonite
But Superman has stayed in our ear thanks to a surprising number of songs that mention him. In fact, by our count, Clark Kent’s alter ego is in more hit songs over the past 50 years than all other...
View ArticleSuperman: 12 tunes nodding to 'Man of Steel'
But Superman has stayed in our ear thanks to a surprising number of songs that mention him. In fact, by our count, Clark Kent’s alter ego is in more hit songs over the past 50 years than all other...
View ArticleSongwriting on Demand
we collaborated on the rest. The backing band is The King Charles Trio, featuring the members of The Decemberists, with Peter Buck, the former guitarist for R.E.M., and Scott McCaughey. The song is...
View ArticleSean Nelson feels better about his 'Choices' now
his first proper solo album, which features assists from the likes of Death Cab for Cutie’s Chris Walla and R.E.M.’s Peter Buck. When Nelson started making the album he was closer to his 30th birthday...
View ArticleFleetwood Mac's back with a love-fest vibe
Mac's 2013 tour, which wraps up with a final run of shows this week in California, is built around a song list that's gone virtually unchanged since the concert run began in April. "We're not one of...
View ArticleFleetwood Mac is back — without all of the angst
that its live show leaves nothing to chance. Fleetwood Mac’s 2013 tour, which wraps up with a final run of shows this week in California, is built around a song list that’s gone virtually unchanged...
View ArticleFleetwood Mac is back — without all of the angst
and singer Lindsey Buckingham last week from a tour stop in Charlotte, N.C. “Years ago I was hanging out with Peter Buck and went to several shows R.E.M. did and they literally did just that. That’s...
View ArticleA Day At Billionaire Fred DeLuca's Subway Headquarters
Subway CDO Don Fertman addresses the Challenge winners. Five budding entrepreneurs from around the world were brought to Subway world headquarters in Milford, CT on Monday morning to meet and share...
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