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The first and only European Tired Pony show was a real treat,
with Gary Lightbody leading a band that sprawled across the stage, starting off with a shimmering ‘I Don’t Want You As A Ghost’, before having guest turns on backing vocals starting with Bronagh Gallagher notably
R.E.M.’s song “Orange Crush” is on the soundtrack for THE INTERNET MUST GO, a short satirical film by Gena Konstantinakos. The film was released today to coincide with oral arguments in Verizon’s lawsuit to remove open Internet protections. The short online mockumentary, designed to be shared using social media,
Lifes Rich Pageant has made the grade in Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Top 100 Albums of 1986, coming in at #3 in part 7 of the music site’s ongoing series of rating the best albums, by year, of the ’80s. LRP was inched out by The Smiths seminal album The Queen
Peter Buck and Patterson Hood of the Drive-By Truckers got together recently to write a song inspired by Brent Hendricks’s memoir A Long Day at the End of the World. The book, about the mass corpse desecration at the Tri-State Crematory in Noble, Georgia, in 2002, “captures the feeling
Check out Tired Pony’s “I Don’t Want You as a Ghost” which is streaming at rollingstone.com! Click here to listen.
If you haven’t already heard the new Tired Pony album you can buy it at trdpny.com/iTunes. Sorry North America, you have to wait until Oct 1st!
The Irish Times has an interview with Peter Buck and Gary Lightbody from Tired Pony. Check it out here.
The BBC.com has a great interview with Peter and Gary Lightbody of Tired Pony. Check it out at bbc.com.
Tired Pony’s new record, The Ghost of the Mountain, is released today in the UK and Internationally. The band’s follow-up to their first release, The Place We Ran From,will be released in N. America on October 1st. Tired Pony is Gary Lightbody, Peter Buck, Richard Colburn, Jacknife Lee,
R.E.M.’s seminal debut album Murmur has placed #18 in Rolling Stone’s latest poll: the 100 Best Debut Albums of All Time. Read the article and check out the entire poll here.
Patterson Hood (Drive-By Truckers) & The Downtown Rumblers and The Young Fresh Fellows (Scott McCaughey) make up the latest installment in the limited edition Songs for Slim 7-inch series, a non-profit project created to benefit former Replacements guitarist Slim Dunlap, who is still recovering from a massive stroke he suffered
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With only a week to go before the worldwide (exc N America) release of Tired Pony’s sophomore album ‘The Ghost Of The Mountain,’ the band has announced a special one-off show in London on September 14th.
This show, at The Barbican, will only be the second time Tired Pony has played