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Check out photos from Nights 1, 2, and 3 of the Todos Santos Music Festival at this link.

Peter will be d-jaying at the Todos Santos Inn on Monday night from 8pm to midnight playing songs from his killer record collection. There will be a tip jar for donations to be divided amongst the festival’s charity beneficiaries. Admission is free!

In which Michael talks about which side he sleeps on, the last thing he ate, and his favorite Olympics’ event! Read the interview here!

Check out this article on the Todos Santos Music Festival at blurtonline.com.

The third incarnation of Peter Buck’s creation, the Todos Santos Music festival, is off to a rocking start and could just turn out to be the best one ever . . . I am pretty sure it will. The sun is hot, the music amazing, the drinks are cold

Odyssey Online, the news magazine of Clarke Central High School in Athens, has a great feature on Jim McKay’s recent film festival in the Classic City. The story includes interviews with Jim as well as Michael Stipe. Watch it here.

Paul Thomas is a professor of education at Furman University and a prolific thinker, scholar and blogger– his main blog is The Becoming Radical.

Here, he offers a tribute to some “Nightswimming,” along with Snow Patrol’s recent Belfast cover of that classic from AFTP…

Watch the following clip in which Michael is in on the fun and birthday wishes for Patti Smith at a recent performance at Webster Hall in NYC:

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Snow Patrol performed a great cover version of R.E.M.’s “Nightswimming” in Belfast at an Alzheimer’s Research Benefit show on December 30th. Watch the video…

Mike will be in New York City for a New Year’s Day gig with Joseph Arthur at City Winery. Mike was recently on tour with Joseph for a series of shows that concluded on December 16th, so this promises to be a great one-off night.

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A classic lost in the mists of time–from a few years ago at The Pier in Raleigh: