More than commercial success, what Michael Stipe, Peter Buck and Mike Mills really want from their new album is for fans to believe in them again

By Alan Light
On the ground floor of a nondescript building, a few blocks from the University of Georgia campus here, sits a little room stuffed with instruments and decorated with Christmas lights, lava lamps, old concert posters and tacked-up 45s.

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Poison drummer Rikki Rockett was arrested on a rape warrant and his case was turned over to the district attorney's office, which will consider whether to pursue charges, officials said Friday.

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By Diane Baker, Noah Buchan and Bradley Winterton
Bach's tender and scintillating B Minor Mass, one of the greatest monuments in world music, had never been heard live in Taiwan before Saturday night (in Taipei's National Concert Hall). The event turned out to be pure joy, a performance in a thousand. Helmuth Rilling coaxed a nimble, piquant period style from the Evergreen Symphony Orchestra, youthful as ever and dominated by female instrumentalists - even two of its three trumpeters were women.

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