R.E.M. has finished recording the band's 15th album in Berlin with producer Jacknife Lee. The follow-up to 2008's Accelerate doesn't have a name yet, but it's expected to be released in spring 2011 after being mixed this fall. The band wrote on its official website, "Berlin is a pulsing, exciting city with so many varied and distinctive neighborhoods, iconic history all around, great food at all levels and from every corner of the world...an excellent place to set up camp and make a great record." [MusicRadar.com]
R.I.P. country songwriter Hank Cochran, who died Thursday morning at his home in Hendersonville, Tennessee at age 74. Cochran wrote chart-topping hits such as "He's Got You" and "Make the World Go Away," and co-wrote "I Fall to Pieces." A member of the Nashville Songwriters Association International Hall of Fame and the Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame, Cochran was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2008 and suffered an aortic aneurysm in March. [AOLNews.com]
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