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Tired Pony News: New Single Out… New Album Forthcoming
Following a three year wait Tired Pony return this August with their sophomore album ‘The Ghost of The Mountain’, a 12 track LP featuring new single ‘All Things All At Once’.
The new single was given its exclusive worldwide first play this morning on Shaun Keavney’s BBC Radio 6music breakfast
New Tired Pony Single First Play On BBC Monday
On Monday BBC 6music’s Shaun Keaveny will have the worldwide exclusive first play of the new single from Tired Pony on his breakfast show.
Tune in to listen to the track from 7am (BST) and also catch an interview with Tired Pony/Snow Patrol vocalist Gary Lightbody about the album, listen
Michael One Of 40 Artists Participating in “Something About a Tree” Exhibition
Michael is one of 40 artists participating in the exhibition “Something About a Tree” at New York’s Flag Art Foundation July 10th through September according to the theartnewspaper.com. Michael’s piece is titled “New York Dolls, 2010,” an installation “involving a chair and a blown-up image of the
Soundtrack of the Summer Season: Michael Arranges R.E.M. Songs For Louis Vuitton Men’s Show
Michael has been in Paris this week where he has collaborated with DJ Honey Dijon on the soundtrack for Louis Vuitton’s Men’s Summer Season 2014 show. The duo spliced together R.E.M.’s “The One I Love” and “Losing My Religion” for the show which took place earlier today (6-27).
Jay-Z’s Magna Carta Track “Heaven” References R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion”
Pitchfork has reported that Jay-Z’s Magna Carta Track “Heaven” References R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion.” Jay-Z’s new album is due out on July 4. You can read more about it at pitchfork.com.
Find of the Week: Christmas in June
Peter’s Christmas message, c 1986
A Look Back At Wembley 1989
Exactly twenty-four years ago today, R.E.M. played a monumental show at Wembley Arena in London, England, on the Green World Tour, and since we’re in a retrospective mood around here of late, we thought a clip from that show along with a link to the Remtimeline site would be apropos.
A Footnote To Fairly Recent History
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
Michael Stipe, Jake Shears, Adam Lambert Design Shred of Hope Tees For Queer Youth
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
Find of the Week: Original lyrics to “(Don’t Go Back To) Rockville”
Original lyrics to “(Don’t Go Back To) Rockville”
Find of the Week: A Special Benefit Concert
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
Green Review At The Digital Fix
Check out this comprehensive and insightful review of the GREEN DELUXE EDITION at the thedigitalfix.com.
Find of the Week
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.
Green Review at RTE.IE
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