Our old friend Michael Jaffe, who has chronicled some R.E.M. doings all the way back to the Automatic era, has a new novel out–“When Blackness Was a Virtue”
He sent us this interesting blogpost from largeheartedboy.com.
Back in his days at Sports Illustrated, Michael enjoyed the fondness of Mike MIlls
On February 25th, Mike will perform at the Content Creators Coalition FREE concert with Marilyn Carino, David Byrne, Marc Ribot and many others. The concert will be held at (le) poisson rouge to raise awareness for Musicians’ rights. Please sign the petition at irespectmusic.org and come show your
Jude Rogers of The Guardian takes a look at ten of the best R.E.M. tracks in his latest article at theguardian.com
The Best of Creem magazine…
Author Len Vlahos is the current Executive Director of the Book Industry Study Group in New York City. During the 1980s, Len lived in Athens where he was in a punk rock band called The Woofing Cookies for whom Peter Buck produced a song called “In the City.” 28 years
The Baseball Project is excited to announce that their third album, 3rd, will be released March 25th. In addition to founders Scott McCaughey (Young Fresh Fellows, The Minus 5, R.E.M.) and Steve Wynn (The Dream Syndicate, Steve Wynn and the Miracle 3, Gutterball), the band’s roster includes drummer Linda Pitmon
Peter and longtime friend, SXSW Sunday night legend and constantly amazing musician Alejandro Escovedo are set and ready to bring their high-energy rock and roll to select stops in the Midwest and Southeast later this month.
“I’ve known Alejandro since the “True Believer” days,” said Peter, “and it’s an honor to
This find of the week is from the Monster Tour…
In a special tribute to William S. Burroughs on the date of his birth one hundred years ago today, we’re looking back at a couple of gems from the R.E.M. archives in which the great man features: “Star Me Kitten” from the X-files soundtrack as well as the Vincent Moon
Mike Mills joins members of Widespread Panic John Bell, JoJo Hermann and Sunny Ortiz along with Dirty Dozen Brass Band in concert to benefit childhood disease on February 22, 2014 at the House of Blues in Orlando. Mills will play alongside Bell, Hermann and Ortiz as a one-time “band”.
Bo Diddley 3am
Hey everybody, this is Peter. I am back in Mexico gearing up for the 3rd annual Todos Santos Music Festival. By gearing up I mean that I am drinking tequila at 3am and listening to Bo Diddley. What a mighty, mighty man he was, ever
Robyn Hitchcock has a show at the Melting Point in Athens Thursday night where he’ll be joined by opener Thayer Sarrano. There’s a great interview with Robyn at flagpole.com, so please check it out.
WHO: Robyn Hitchcock, Thayer Sarrano
WHERE: Melting Point
WHEN: Thursday, Jan. 30, 7:30 p.m.
HOW MUCH: $15 (adv.),
Here’s the latest Find of the Week: a t-shirt from R.E.M.’s Pageantry Tour.
Big Star Third performed in Sydney, Australia, at the Enmore Theatre on January 23rd. The core band once again featured Mike on bass; Mitch Easter (Let’s Active) and Chris Stamey (The dB’s) and Ken Stringfellow (The Posies, Big Star) on guitar; Brett Harris and Skylar Gudasz on harmony and
Check out photos from Nights 1, 2, and 3 of the Todos Santos Music Festival at this link.