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[Sacha8]

While working on their ninth studio album, Monster, the R.E.M. came to know about the shocking news of Kurt Cobain's suicide. Michael Stipe's deeply emotional reaction to his friend's death led to this raw prayer-like song: Let me in

[dsanchez]

Back to my school times...

[Ulrich]

... R.E.M. came to know about the shocking news of Kurt Cobain's suicide...

There were more songs (supposedly) about this tragic happening. Neil Young's "Sleeps with angels" and Pearl Jam's "Last exit" possibly?

Maybe also this one:

[Ulrich]

Come Monday depressed feelings
I won't let it get me down
Come Tuesday and I feel better
Gonna head out to the big town

[Ulrich]

Yet another new project incl. Hugo Race:

https://vivelerock.net/blogs/news-1/lost-in-the-stars

Post-rock supergroup SPEED OF THE STARS herald their long-awaited second album with a striking new video which they're premiering with Vive Le Rock!

The band features Steve Kilbey of Australian psych pioneers The Church; Frank Kearns of Irish alt-rockers Cactus World News; singer-songwriter Hugo Race, and Barton Price of 80s Aussie chart stars Models.

Recorded at Puccini Floating Music Academy near Pisa, and produced by Race, While Italy Dreamed.... through Summers of Haze comes nine years after the band's debut, which was initially a collaboration between Kilbey and Kearns, who had met while touring the US in the mid-80s.