“I thought I’d landed in a hippy cowtown,” says Michael Stipe, of his first months as an art student in Athens, Georgia. “I was an urban punk rocker, and Athens seemed beige and granola; it took me a while to find my ‘people’.” Read the Guardian’s piece on Athens art-rockers Limbo District with contributions from … Continued
We recently read that Les Ban Douches, the totally underground (and in fact subterranean) rock club where R.E.M. played its first-ever show on the European continent, had become a swanky boutique hotel. That got us to thinking about some of the hotels the guys stayed in once they started spending lots of time in Europe … Continued
Just in from Anthony Mason, producer at CBS Mornings: “Happy almost fourth! We are re-airing the first R.E.M. piece tomorrow morning in the 8 o’clock hour”We hope you can tune in and check it out!
A long delayed Postcard From the Road: Twenty five years ago right now, R.E.M. and Wilco were in London, touring behind UP for R.E.M. and Wilco’s Summerteeth. This one was the second of two nights at the fabled Earls Court, a massive historic arena that seemed like a hundred years old (it wasn’t, built 1935, … Continued
“I think it was maybe a moment for R.E.M. and the UK where we had kind of been forgotten or pushed aside by younger bands, and that was a particular moment at Glastonbury where I think we pulled ourselves back to the front of the line and actually proved, this is what we’re capable of. … Continued
