FIND OF THE WEEK: FLEXI-DISC “FEMME FATALE”
This week’s find is the red promo flexi-disc given away with issue #27 of THE BOB magazine. It’s the band’s cover of the Velvet Underground’s “Femme Fatale.” View the image at facebook.com.
This week’s find is the red promo flexi-disc given away with issue #27 of THE BOB magazine. It’s the band’s cover of the Velvet Underground’s “Femme Fatale.” View the image at facebook.com.
Check out this article from the Los Angeles Times on the Todos Santos Music Festival.
Back in August 2011, the Community Chorus Project, a Chapel Hill, NC, based group of high school aged singers covered R.E.M.’s “Everybody Hurts,” and we enthusiastically posted it on remhq.com and R.E.M.’s Facebook page. Now, just in time for the holidays, the Chorus Project, founded by arts entrepreneur Lauren
Happy 25th Anniversary to one of R.E.M.’s best loved songs It’s the End of the World As We Know It (and I Feel Fine).
Here are some of our favorite versions of it through the years starting with the official video shot by James Herbert on the outskirts of Athens:
an early fan club mailing of the band’s always helpful, always witty, Name his Record pad they generally kept of the running, jokey titles–not sure any was ever used ever but always a good part of the process. This would have been for the album that eventually became
RECKONING…
For a
Enter for your chance to win a three-night stay at the Hotel California, VIP tickets to weekend one of the Todos Santos Music Festival (January 10, 11, & 12) and two signed t-shirts. The contest runs through December 21, 2012. Enter here!
Happy Birthday to our very own Mike Mills!
Michael sang Christmas carol “Good KIng Wenceslas” on The Colbert Report with Stephen and actor Mandy Patinkin last night. Check it out here!
Last night’s 12-12-12 Concert for Sandy Relief in NYC at Madison Square Garden featured a surprise appearance by Michael who joined Coldplay’s Chris Martin on stage for a performance of “Losing My Religion.”
You can read more about the concert and watch an interview with Michael here.
Photo by
You can download last night’s performance of “Good King Wenceslas” single by Michael Stipe, Stephen Colbert, and Mandy Patinkin to benefit the Rockaway Waterfront Alliance at iTunes
Check out the performance at colbertnation.com.
Be sure to check out The Colbert Report tonight at 11:30PM ET for a special guest appearance by Michael who will join Stephen and Mandy Patinkin during Christmas Carol Week for a rendition of “Good King Wenceslas.” For more information, please visit colbernation.com
Rolling Stone has listed R.E.M.’s anniversary edition of Document as one of its ten best reissues for 2012. Check out what they have to say at rollingstone.com.
Warm wishes from all of us REMHQ to Peter for a very happy birthday today on December 6th.
On Sunday, December 2, 2012, from 3pm to 4pm, Avid Bookshop in Athens (Prince at Hill Street) is honored to host more than a cookbook signing. Sweetness Follows is the story of a journey from near death to a beautiful life.
In April, 2007, Sam Lane, then a junior at UGA,
Earlier today, slicingupeyeballs.com posted some rare live footage of the band performing at Atlanta’s 688 Club in 1981 where they opened for Joe “King” Carrasco. The video, from the collection of Wuxtry Records in Athens, is 40-minutes in length and features 13 songs. Go to slicingupeyeballs.com to