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).
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.
Peter’s Christmas message, c 1986
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: 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