Yearly Archives: 2008

R.E.M. will tour North America this May and June in support of Accelerate, their new record which is set to be released on April 1. The band will be joined on the North American tour by Modest Mouse and The National. Please stay

R.E.M. has been in New York City for the past few days doing press and photography for the new record. Earlier in the week, the band got together with the fantastic, super-talented director Vincent Moon (ninetynights, Takeaway Shows) to shoot a video for “Supernatural Superserious.” Bertis was on

As previously announced, R.E.M. will be playing this year’s SXSW Festival in Austin. We can now confirm that the band’s show will take place at Stubbs Bar-B-Q on March 12. More details to follow.

Click on the links below to read recent press on ninetynights.com and Accelerate:

Pitchfork

Blogotheque

les inrockuptibles

20 Minutes

Stereogum

Local rockers The Drive By Truckers will be playing a benefit concert Thursday, January 10, at the 40 Watt in support of Nuçi’s Space, a resource space set up for Athens’ musicians whose mission is to promote the emotional, physical and occupational well-being of the music community.

Anton Corbijn’s feature film, CONTROL, the acclaimed biopic of Joy Division’s lead singer Ian Curtis, opens at Athens lovely art house cinema, Ciné on January 11 and runs through Thursday, January 17 (showtimes: 4:15p 7:15p 9:45p). Local record shop Wuxtry will have a

It’s time again for a quick look at what’s happening in the music press. Here, we have rounded up some of the most recent articles from the UK media. Click on the links below to read what Q, Uncut, the Sun, and the Times have to say in

…Or self-deprecating. And it’s Ferguson, not Kilborn. And Pennsylvania is hardly the heartlands.

Michael had a fun and now controversial conversation with Jane Pratt on her Sirius radio show on his birthday [Jan. 4th], and it was picked up by Reuters and now is