WHAT’S THE FREQUENCY, SALZBURG?
Thanks to David Belisle for these amazing photos of the band’s first night back after a two week break. Tonight’s show: Salzburg, Austria…the Frequency Festival.
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R.E.M. TOUR CRANKS BACK UP IN AUSTRIA THURSDAY!
After a quick two-week break, the band returns to action this Thursday at the Frequency Festival in Salzburg, Austria. The Salzburg show is the first of thirty upcoming European shows R.E.M. will play from August through October featuring stops in Hungary, Czech Republic, Germany, the United
ESPN.COM CHATS WITH SCOTT MCCAUGHEY LIVE WEDNESDAY
The Baseball Project, yet another manifestation of Scott McCaughey and Peter Buck’s penchant for musical revelry, has garnered massive kudos in the month since its debut release on Yep Roc Records (U.S.) and Blue Rose (Europe). Since the band’s national TV appearances on David
R.E.M. TOUR CRANKS BACK UP IN AUSTRIA THURSDAY!
After a quick two-week break, the band returns to action this Thursday at the Frequency Festival in Salzburg, Austria. The Salzburg show is the first of thirty upcoming European shows R.E.M. will play from August through October featuring stops in Hungary, Czech Republic, Germany, the United
SOME PHOTOS FROM THE SHOWS
Here are some of David Belisle’s favorite shots of the first two months of the tour. David is a busy man, juggling a few jobs on the road with us, and he does them all well but always finds a way to snap the best upclose and funny
R.E.M. ADDS MEXICO CITY CONCERT TO 2008 TOUR
We are very excited to announce that R.E.M. will play a concert at the Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City on November 18th. Tickets for the Mexico City show will go on sale to the general public next Wednesday, August 6. For more information, please click here.
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WEEKEND POSTCARD FROM MILAN
In a summer of uncommonly gorgeous settings for R.E.M. concerts (Bilbao, Lyon, Verona, Locarno, and Dresden immediately come to mind), last night’s outside Udine (in the far northeastern corner of Italy), stood out in its unique beauty: the show was in the huge interior courtyard of a centuries’ old
DRESDEN CONCERT ON VIRGIN RADIO ALL THIS WEEK!
Be sure to listen to R.E.M.’s Dresden concert (which took place on 7-15 at Elbufer) this week as it streams online WORLDWIDE in its entirety on Virgin Radio: Click here to listen and, in the meantime, have a look at a review of the show posted
PHOTO DIARY FROM ITALY
Check out these beautiful photographs of R.E.M. in Naples taken by the super-talented David Belisle. Semplicemente favoloso!
MAN-SIZED WREATH REVIEWS
Ten days after its world premiere at spinner.com, the video for Man-Sized Wreath has received props for its use of animation, live-action, motion graphics, and stop motion, among other things, most notably from digital arts online and itsartmag.com. If you haven’t
PODCAST OF MICHAEL’S NEWS CUBE INTERVIEW AT ITUNES
iTunes has a podcast of Michael’s recent interview with The News Cube, MTV News UK’s roundup of some of the week’s big music stories (7-22-2008 program). Click HERE to launch the application that will direct you to the podcast in your iTunes player.
MICHAEL JOINS T FOR TIBET CAMPAIGN
Michael has joined with other like-minded musicians, activists, actors, athletes, and artists in supporting Free Tibet’s T For Tibet campaign. The campaign, which involves making the T For Tibet hand signal, represents a show of solidarity for the Tibetan people whose unique culture, religion and basic human
VIRGIN RADIO PLANS TO BROADCAST R.E.M. CONCERT
On Sunday, July 27th, Virgin Radio will air R.E.M.’s recent concert in Dresden, Germany . The band performed at Elbufer in Dresden on July 15th and Virgin promises to bring you the full concert. You can click HERE for more information about the
RUSHED POSTCARD FROM JUST BEFORE STAGE TIME IN VERONA
Wonderful to be back in Italy, for a show last night in Perugia and tonight in the amazing Arena in Verona–we have 3 more here after tonight, then Nyon for PALEO Festival and the first bit of Europe is over for a 2 week break.
TOUR MOVES TO SWITZERLAND AND ITALY
R.E.M.’s world tour moves through Locarno, Switzerland tonight (the band has just finished their set (enter remlocarno at “query” to see twittered set list) at Moon and Stars in the Piazza Grande Locarno as we type…getting ready for the encore) and over to Perugia,