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6PM — Soul legend Al Green covers R.E.M.’s “Everybody Hurts”.

We’re so lucky Al Green is still around and releasing new music. Few artists embody the very definition of “soul” like he does.

7PM — Micheal Stipe is working on a solo album. What a lovely portrait of the former R.E.M. singer. “Stipe had been invited downstairs to say hello and, finding Swift standing in the doorway, extended his hand and said: ‘You must be Taylor’ — an objectively cool thing to say to Taylor Swift.”