Here’s a quick roundup of some of the latest happenings in this week’s R.E.M. news cycle:
CHRONIC TOWN HITS 30!
Slicingupeyeballs.com celebrates the 30th anniversary of Chronic Town with an hour-long concert from 1982. Listen here.
FIND OF THE WEEK
Today’s find is from some old files from the 80s– hmmmh wonder
Today’s find is from some old files from the 80s– hmmmh wonder what tour this was for . . . !? I seem to recall a show that looked kind of like this at Legion Field next to the pool in Athens.
Neat to see Michael’s visual mind
FIND OF THE WEEK
One of the more interesting HQ tasks in the months since the disbandment has been the methodical sorting and archiving of the three decades of accumulated REM “stuff.”
Starting today, every week we will post our favorite find of the week.
This week’s “find” is a
A new U.S. Embassy music project will pay tribute to the songs of R.E.M. and will highlight environmental issues in the process. The U.S. Embassy in Slovenia will follow last year’s popular Bob Dylan music project with Projekt R.E.M.: Pure Energy Music, due out on September 8. Projekt
When the documentary Athens, GA – Inside/Out was released in 1987, it provided a peek into the town that had turned the music world upside down by producing acts like R.E.M. and The B-52’s. For those who didn’t get to see this limited-release film in the theaters (or in clips
The band has teamed with Capitol/I.R.S. for the September 25 release of an expanded 25th Anniversary Edition of their 1987 album, Document. The new edition features the digitally remastered original album, plus a previously unreleased 1987 concert from the Work tour. The commemorative release also adds new liner
Earlier today we announced that an expanded 25th Anniversary Edition of Document will be reissued this September (see article), and to coincide with that exciting news, we’ve posted videos of the singles from the seminal 1987 album as well as live footage from Tourfilm, Road Movie and Perfect
The band has teamed with Capitol/I.R.S. for the September 25 release of an expanded 25th Anniversary Edition of the band’s 1987 album, Document. The new edition features the digitally remastered original album, plus a previously unreleased 1987 concert from the Work tour. The commemorative release also adds new
Earlier today we announced that an expanded 25th Anniversary Edition of Document will be reissued this September (see article), and to coincide with that, we’ve posted videos of the singles from the seminal 1987 album as well as live footage from Tourfilm, Rpad Movie and Perfect Square. Check it
A memorial service will be held this Saturday at 2pm at the 40 Watt in Athens, Georgia, to celebrate and recall the life of a remarkable friend and musician, Bill Doss, who many will remember as a founding member of Athens psychedelic pop stalwarts Olivia Tremor Control.
Check out the special guest on the Colbert Report at the 30-second mark!
Click here to watch.
With heavy hearts and great sorrow, we join the Athens music community in mourning the loss of our dear friend Bill Doss, a kind and gentle spirit, supreme talent, and skilled musical craftsman. Today and always, Bill and Amy are in our hearts.
I wrote Michael Stipe to tell him that his tumblr may be the best I’d ever seen. Would he be interested in an interview? The remarkable thing about Stipe’s tumblr isn’t its originality, but its lack of. He uses tumblr as it’s best used, or rather, for its ability to
Peter was the resident camp counselor at Todd Rundgren’s second annual Musical Revival Camp in Big Indian, New York, on Tuesday this week. The camp, in New York’s beautiful Catskills, runs from July 23-27, and offers campers an opportunity to spend time with host Rundgren, counselors Peter Buck, Mark Volman