A footnote to fairly recent history: our good friend from back in the early Warner Bros days, Jeff Gold, sent me this editorial from the NY Times:
This is notable for a couple of reasons: it reminded us of The Motor Voter Bill, on
From newnownext.com: “We’ve got the line on an interesting and trés fashionable fundraiser for LGBT youth: Shred of Hope, benefiting the Ali Forney Center in New York, sees celebrities like Michael Stipe, Jake Shears, John Cameron Mitchell, Ally Sheedy, Adam Lambert, Dustin Lance Black and Casey Spooner
Original lyrics to “(Don’t Go Back To) Rockville”
After the “last” show in Macon of the yearlong Green World Tour the band reconvened for this benefit in Atlanta and is the only time they ever played two entire albums all the way through– MURMUR, followed by GREEN, with an encore of favorites and a cover (you can look
Check out this comprehensive and insightful review of the GREEN DELUXE EDITION at the thedigitalfix.com.
Winter of 1984, the band and Jim Herbert drove over to R.A. Miller’s whirligig farm near Gainesville to make a video and came back with a film for the “left” side of Reckoning, to this day one of the band’s best-loved obscure films.
R.E.M.’s first major label album still stands as a master class in how a band can remain resolute to their own vision while rising above big business demands. Act local; think global indeed
By 1988, R.E.M. were unlikely megastars in the making. The band who had pretty much invented college rock
Greensboro NC, yes, a very important place in R.E.M.’s history– of course, close to Mitch and Don, and the scene of an early Friday’s benefit (the band’s first of many of those?!), then later at the Coliseum, no one’s idea of an exemplary arena I guess, but hey we
The Sachal Studios Orchestra, based in Lahore, Pakistan, gave a beautiful performance of “Everybody Hurts” at a concert recently. You can watch footage at openculture.com. The song will appear on the forthcoming album Jazz and All That, scheduled for release this summer.
The Georgians’ major-label debut – even more thrilling and subversive a quarter of a century on…
Pointedly released on Election Day 1988, REM’s sixth album — and the group’s major label debut — completed the college-rock band’s improbable rise to the top of the rock pyramid alongside U2, who were then
SCOTT LITT GREENSBORO SHOW DELIVERY NOTE (DEC. 14, 1989)
This week has seen a good campaign for the special 25th year anniversary edition of one of the band’s pivotal records– sometimes underrated coming as it did in between the end of the IRS era– Document— and the one-two punch of the early 90s international bestsellers Out of Time
Hey this is Peter,
I just wanted to keep you all up on what is going on with my fantabulous career. I have a new single coming out in the next two weeks on Mississippi Records. It’s a monkey concept single. There will be about a 1000 available
From Rollingstone.com… When R.E.M. announced their breakup in 2011, many fans assumed it was only a matter of time before they reunited. Don’t hold your breath, bassist Mike Mills tells Rolling Stone: “There are zero plans for a reunion. The idea of not reforming is kind of attractive to us.”