PETER PERFORMS IN SEATTLE THIS WEEKEND
Peter will play two shows this weekend in Seattle at the Sunset Tavern under the Richard M. Nixon moniker (ncluding Scott McCaughey and Bill Rieflin). Friday, the band will share the bill with The Needful Longings and headliners Young Fresh Fellows. Saturday, the bill includes
Earlier this week Peter announced that he will once again be bringing his musical friends back to Mexico for the second annual Todos Santos Music Festival in the Baja region on Jan. 10-26, 2013. Our friends at pastemagazine.com were the first to report the details of the festival
Something tells me this one was something to do with Japan and an early tour!
The NY Post’s Page Six reported the following story yesterday:
“Michael Stipe says he would love for President Obama to use his songs on the campaign trail. The former R.E.M. frontman, who recently demanded that Fox News stop using his song “Losing My Religion,” which aired during their coverage of the
This past Saturday September 8th, the US Embassy in Slovenia held a free concert at Kongresni trg in Ljubljana for an estimated crowd of 12,000 people who came out in support of both great music and the environment. The concert coincided with the release of Projekt R.E.M.: Pure Energy
Michael and Jim McKay hard at work editing Tourfilm, sometime in 1990
By this time, this dynamic duo had started C-00, their film company, done the acclaimed Direct Action PSA project, and Jim had been very involved in, among other things, the photography, imagery and videos for DOCUMENT
Mike is in Nashville this week for the Americana Music Honors & Awards where he will present an award with Big Star’s Jody Stephens for the Duo/Group of the Year on Wednesday night. On Thursday, Mike, Chris Stamey (db’s), and Stephens (Big Star) will perform “The Songs of Big
Michael Stipe fires back, “Fox News ha ha HAHAHA”
Projekt R.E.M.: Pure Energy Music, the new U.S. Embassy music project in Slovenia, is out today! The project features 16 songs by popular Slovenian artists–Siddharta, Elvis Jackson, The Tide, N’toko, Vlado Kreslin (backed by Croatia’s The Bambi Molesters), Zoran Predin paired with Massimo SaviÃÂ, Melodrom, Severa Gjurin, Murat &
More old photos from a few passports ago . . . oh but we were so much older then!
R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion” was used in the Fox News coverage of the Democratic National Convention last night. R.E.M. today, through its music publisher, Warner-Tamerlane Music, demanded that Fox News cease and desist from continuing its unlicensed and unauthorized use of the song. Michael Stipe said, “We have
Fall On Me finally found itself. And then they recorded it. Fun to find this old stuff. All part of life’s rich pageant.
90 Days, 90 Reasons is an independent initiative conceived by our old friend Jordan Kurland (Death Cab For Cutie) and esteemed author Dave Eggers–two guys originally from Chicago–who came to the conclusion earlier this year that many of President Obama’s voters and donors from 2008 needed to be reminded of
As we reported just over two weeks ago, a new U.S. Embassy music project called Projekt R.E.M.: Pure Energy Music is set to be released on September 8. The project features 16 songs by popular Slovenian artists–Siddharta, Elvis Jackson, The Tide, N’toko, Vlado Kreslin (backed by Croatia’s
Here’s a quick roundup of some of the latest happenings in this week’s R.E.M. news cycle:
CHRONIC TOWN HITS 30!
Slicingupeyeballs.com celebrates the 30th anniversary of Chronic Town with an hour-long concert from 1982. Listen here.
FIND OF THE WEEK
Today’s find is from some old files from the 80s– hmmmh wonder