Twenty years ago right now, R.E.M. released Monster, their first album in two years and since there had been no tour for either Out of Time or Automatic for the People, the upcoming tour through 1995 loomed large with anticipation. By the time R.E.M. hit the road in support of
Fourth Annual Charity Event Returns to Southern Baja Featuring Peter Buck + Friends and Showcasing Performances by Old 97’s, Conor Oberst, M. Ward, Drive-By Truckers, The Jayhawks, La Santa Cecilia, Dawes, Nortec Collective Presents: Bostich + Fussible & More
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We are excited to announce that the band’s two landmark MTV Unplugged performances (1991 & 2001) will be released on vinyl individually Monday, September 1 (International), and Tuesday, September 2 (North America). Earlier this year, Rhino released audio from both shows for the first time as a limited four-LP vinyl
We’re continuing to roll-out some of the best articles we’ve seen following the band’s announcement that they were disbanding last week:
Coldplay covers “Everybody Hurts” at the Music Midtown Festival
14 R.E.M. Songs at Huffington Post
Michael Bamberger for Golf.com
A favorite
The 25th anniversary edition of Lifes Rich Pageant is out today, and for devotees of the band’s fourth record, you won’t want to miss the newly remastered version and the awesome extra disc, the Athens Demos (see full tracklisting at the bottom of this article).
The commemorative release also has all-new
Visit spinner.com for their exclusive premiere of Dominic DeJoseph’s video for “Mine Smell Like Honey” along with comments about the video from Mike.
everyone will have seen, or will soon see our first film for COLLAPSE INTO NOW, directed by DOMINIC DEJOSEPH, for the song MINE SMELL LIKE HONEY. it was shot last summer in Berlin at Hansa Studio, in the stairwell that connects the recording studio to the big room several
Fire up your laptops and get ready to remix your own version of “It Happened Today.” Jacknife Lee has just delivered all the multi-track files and we are posting them here for you to download, remix, reimagine, remake. They are in AIFF and Garageband formats, so pick
As we head into a hot Georgia weekend, we wanted to do a quick wrap-up of the latest news from REMHQ:
BERLIN STUDIO NEWS
Rolling Stone has a nice write up of the band’s studio time in Berlin. You can read it here.
RECLAIM THE COAST BENEFIT CONCERTS
As part of Michael’s
Sen. Al Franken devoted his keynote address at Netroots Nation Saturday night,to the single most important issue for preserving the future of the First Amendment: the corporate takeover of free speech and preserving net neutrality.
You can watch his speech here.
With the onset of the 30th anniversary of R.E.M., we asked a few photographers who have worked with the band over the years to send along the image they like the best for the occasion. Four answered the call, Sandra Lee Phipps and Laura Levine from the early days
For a non-touring/non-recording summer, things are somewhat lively at HQ, with the RECKONING 25th DELUXE EDITION re-issue, the RECKONING SONGS FROM THE OLYMPIA Digital EP and the upcoming LIVE AT THE OLYMPIA Double Live Record coming in October keeping us busy and on our
In the past, R.E.M. have had countless unique logos and typography. From Ed Rogers’ handwriting on Out Of Time to the many hand-drawn song titles of Reckoning, typography has been an important part of R.E.M.’s artwork. Until recently, individual letterforms were made as needed, but for the last five years,
As we reported late last night Peter’s guitar went missing from the Finnair Stadium in Helsinki, Finland. Though the guitar has not yet been located, there is an active investigation and we are all hopeful that the guitar will eventually be returned. We still would like