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Alcohol may help you fall asleep faster, but it fragments sleep and reduces deep and REM sleep, leaving you less refreshed the next day. The closer you drink to bedtime, the more disruption you see, and even a single drink can alter nighttime awakenings and recovery markers like resting heart rate; if you’re drinking to cope with sleep, consider earlier consumption, hydration, and speaking with a clinician for other sleep strategies.
Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy lead an all-star R.E.M. tribute that digs into deep catalog cuts—often with ex‑R.E.M. members joining the stage—turning live shows into joyful pilgrimages rather than mere covers as they tour Lifes Rich Pageant and beyond, sometimes featuring guest moments from Michael Stipe and a rotating roster of friends and fans who celebrate the band’s enduring spirit.
A new theory suggests that the sequence of sleep stages—non-REM followed by REM—is crucial for strengthening and organizing memories, with non-REM sleep reinforcing memories and REM sleep pruning overlapping ones, supported by mouse studies and computational models. Reversing this order impairs memory, highlighting the importance of sleep architecture in learning and memory consolidation.
Researchers at the University of Lausanne have discovered that the brain's locus coeruleus (LC) plays a crucial role in regulating sleep transitions between NREM and REM states. The LC's fluctuating activity acts like a clock, with peaks and troughs influencing sleep cycles. Stress can disrupt LC activity, leading to fragmented sleep and delayed REM onset, linking it to sleep disorders. This study offers potential new treatments and biomarkers for sleep disturbances, particularly in conditions like anxiety and insomnia.
Al Green has released a cover of R.E.M.'s classic song "Everybody Hurts."
Over 200 artists, including Billie Eilish, R.E.M., and Kacey Musgraves, have signed an open letter by the Artist Rights Alliance condemning the use of AI to infringe upon artists' rights. The letter urges developers and tech companies to refrain from deploying AI music-generation technology that undermines human artistry and denies fair compensation to artists, highlighting the unauthorized use of musical works to train AI models and the dilution of royalty pools. The organization calls for protection against the predatory use of AI to steal artists' voices and likenesses, violate creators' rights, and disrupt the music ecosystem.
Billie Eilish, R.E.M., Jason Isbell, and over 200 other artists have signed an open letter urging AI developers and digital music services to refrain from using artificial intelligence to infringe upon and devalue the rights of human artists. The letter, organized by the Artist Rights Alliance, emphasizes the need to protect against the predatory use of AI to steal artists' voices and likenesses, violate creators' rights, and disrupt the music ecosystem.
Healthy sleep consists of four stages per sleep cycle, with each stage serving a vital function in ensuring adequate rest. The stages include N1, N2, N3, and REM, with N3, the deep sleep stage, being the most crucial for overall sleep quality. It is during N3 that the glymphatic system removes waste products from the brain, supplies essential nutrients, and regulates moods. Interrupted sleep can lead to cognitive fogginess and other issues, emphasizing the importance of maintaining a regular sleep/wake schedule to avoid disrupting natural sleep cycles.
The Songwriters Hall of Fame has announced its 2024 inductees, including R.E.M., Timbaland, and Steely Dan, with the induction ceremony set for June 13th in New York City. The chairman emphasized the importance of songwriters in the music industry and highlighted the diversity and unity across genres, ethnicity, and gender among the inductees. The invite-only ceremony, known for its memorable performances, remains a closely guarded event within the music industry.
R.E.M. bassist Mike Mills admits that the band was surprised by the success of their hit single "Losing My Religion," as they initially saw it as a warm-up track for radio. The song, featuring a mandolin as the lead instrument and lacking a traditional chorus, became a worldwide number-one hit and R.E.M.'s highest-charting song in the US. Mills states that anyone claiming they saw the song's success coming is lying. Despite not being chosen as a favorite by any band member, R.E.M. had no time for critics who considered it a sell-out to radio.
Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum and the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence have studied brain activation patterns in sleeping pigeons, using functional magnetic resonance imaging. The study revealed that during REM sleep, birds might experience visions of flight and emotions. However, this wake-like state might come at a cost of reduced waste removal from the brain. The researchers plan to explore REM sleep's potential role in waste removal and ways to learn about the content of a pigeon's dream.