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
Read salon.com’s article about Hardy Morris’ performance at Howard Finster’s Paradise Garden, one of the GA Trust’s “Places in Peril” and also the site of the video for R.E.M.’s “Radio Free Europe.” Hardy’s new video “Share the Needle” premiered on remhq.com and this page earlier in the week on Wednesday.
To introduce his debut solo album Audition Tapes, Athens musician T. Hardy Morris and filmmaker Jason Thrasher filmed a series of live performance videos for each song on Morris’ new record at 10 different endangered historic sites in Georgia.
All the sites in the videos were chosen from the Georgia Trust’s
R.E.M. HQ PREMEIRES NEW T. HARDY MORRIS VIDEO FILMED AT HOWARD FINSTER’S PARADISE GARDEN–A GEORGIA TRUST “PLACES IN PERIL” SITE
From the Places in Peril Live Performance Video series….
To introduce his debut solo album Audition Tapes, Athens musician T. Hardy Morris and filmmaker Jason Thrasher filmed a series of live performance
An entrepreneurial sewing class in Athens, GA, has shown some serious creativity in making special pillows of Athens musicians including one of Michael Stipe.
Women to the World, an international nonprofit Christian service organization committed to improving the lives of poor women and children in Afghanistan, Kenya, Turkey and elsewhere, operates
Our new Find of the Week from 1995-1996…
Michael is the guest designer of the summer issue of Zoetrope: All-Story, the quarterly literary publication founded by Francis Ford Coppola in 1997 to explore the intersection of story and art, fiction and film. More at allstory.com.
You can watch the video for Tired Pony’s new single “All Things All At Once” NOW at trdpny.com . The track is taken from the new album The Ghost Of The Mountain out October 1st in North America
New Orleans based Bonerama (who contributed horns to COLLAPSE INTO NOW) released an album back in the spring called SHAKE IT BABY which we wanted to bring to everyone’s attention belatedly. The album has twelve previously unreleased studio tracks with guest appearances by Mike Mills, Dr. John, George Porter, Jr.
In 2007, Michael Stipe participated as a final round voter in See Me Project, a pediatric HIV/AIDS awareness photography event held in KwaZulu-Natal South Africa. A documentary of that event called “See Me” will be screening at the Awareness Festival in Santa Monica (awarenessfestival.org) this weekend on 7/28,
The feature-length documentary film “Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me” is now available on iTunes and On Demand! Read more about the documentary–a look at the dismal commercial failure, subsequent massive critical acclaim, and enduring legacy of pop music’s greatest cult phenomenon, Big Star–at bigstarstory.com.
Where set lists come from C. 2003
Somehow in the midst of the GREEN resissue hubbub, these excellent essays on the record escaped our attention. But that’s the great thing about the Internet–they are new (green!) today:
This essay by the estimable George Howard of Rykodisc, Daytrotter and PASTE (among others) fame,
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Word is starting to get out about the amazing new Tired Pony project–Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol, Peter Buck, Jacknife Lee, Scott McCaughey and other notables. Here’s a Soundcloud of the first single–you’d never guess where it was recorded:
Watch some of the video and check out
