April 16th is Record Store Day worldwide, and R.E.M. will have a big presence this year as in years past. To kick off the weekend, Peter will be at Easy Street Records in Seattle (the Queen Anne location) where he will be clerking and signing
Read Scott McCaughey’s summary of The Baseball Project’s Cactus League tour 2011 below:
The Baseball Project completed its Cactus League tour with a nice homecoming show (for me, anyway!) at the very cool Bunk Bar in Portland OR. We had great times bringing the four-seamed-fastball rock to Georgia, New Orleans,
Sam Taylor-Wood’s video for “Uberlin” is now eligible for voting on the VH1 Top 20 Countdown for next week’s show. Cast your vote for “Uberlin” HERE and see where it ends up in next week’s countdown.
During his press tour for COLLAPSE INTO NOW Michael did an interview with Italy’s top national daily CORRIERE DELLA SERA. The video interview is available at CDS’ website.
BBC’s 6 Music has posted the trailer for their interview with Michael at bbc.co.uk/6music.
The main interview goes out this Sunday, April 17th, beginning midday, so check back and check it out.
And, if you live in the UK, please be sure to have a look at Michael’s earlier
Recordstoreday.com is premiering the live video for “Alligator_Aviator_Autopilot_Antimatter” (Live At Hansa Studios) at their site today. Bertis gave the good people at Recordstoreday.com the following details about the footage: “The back story is that the film was recorded on the band’s last day of recording in
In response to the devastation of the 9.0 earthquake on March 11th, which has left countless dead and homeless across Japan and the Pacific region, SXSW and HANSON are working together to rally support from the music industry for disaster relief.
The flagship event, a 12-hour live telecast to
Michael and Patti Smith were on hand for the Steven Sebring ILLUMINATION event last night in NYC where they surprised the crowd with a beautiful version of “Everybody Hurts”:
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R.E.M. bassist Mike Mills and lead vocalist Michael Stipe announced this morning that they have begun a new side project called the Hockey Guys. The duo has finished recording their first full-length album at an Athens studio with Garret “bulletproof” Lee who took a short hiatus from working
This Epiphone PR-150 acoustic guitar was purchased from the nice folks at the Nashville Guitar Center and donated to the Ferry County Rail Trail Partners by Bob Whittaker, long time R.E.M. Tour manager and President of the Ferry County Rail Trail Partners. The guitar was signed by Peter
From the NY Times:
“R.E.M. has a new album. It’s called “Collapse Into Now,” and its 12 rockers show the band in peak form. But the record isn’t just about music. It also has a visual component: 12 short films that R.E.M.’s frontman and creative mastermind Michael Stipe commissioned from 11
It’s Major League Baseball’s “opening day” today, and as a special treat, Espn.com’s Jim Wilkie has posted four “Bass-ball” interviews he conducted with rock bassists, including Mike Mills, Mike Inez (Alice in Chains), Duff McKagan (Velvet Revolver), and Jeff Prystowsky (The Low Anthem). Mike’s interview is the first of
That fun-loving, hard rocking band of troubadours known as The Baseball Project has completed the spring training phase of their current tour and just so happen to be in L.A. today to coincide with MLB’s Opening Day where the Dodgers take on Scott McCaughey’s favorite team, the SF Giants. Coincidence?