Be sure to tune into the Golf Channel on Tuesday morning as Mike will be a guest on “Morning Drive.” The program, which airs at 7AM ET, has a special guest host this week: Emmy Award-winning sports broadcaster Jimmy Roberts of NBC. Mike is expected to catch
THE TODOS SANTOS MUSIC FESTIVAL, HOSTED BY PETER BUCK, ALONG WITH SPONSORS PACIFICO AND THE HOTEL CALIFORNIA, IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE FINAL NIGHT OF THE FESTIVAL, JANUARY 21ST, WILL BE HELD IN THE TOWN PLAZA WITH HEADLINERS THE MINUS 5 AND MANY ADDITIONAL GUEST STARS INCLUDING KEVN KINNEY, THE
Peter, Scott McCaughey, Bill Rieflin, Robyn Hitchcock, and Steve Wynn made an afternoon visit to the Palapa Society this weekend and sent us some great photos. Check it out!
This report in from Chloe Johnson:
It was a VERY special afternoon. About 25 of the Palapa Society students from the
All this winter, All Things Considered has been asking for winter songs — and the stories they evoke.
One tough winter in Rhode Island, NPR listener and novelist Thomas Mullen experienced financial ruin with his family. The song that got him through it was R.E.M.’s “Sweetness Follows.”
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“R.E.M. at the BBC” will air this Friday, January 13th, on BBC4 (digital channel) at 9.30pm. The program will run again on Saturday at 1:45AM and Monday at 12 Midnight.
The hour-long show will feature a selection of archive performances from throughout the band’s career, originally recorded for BBC
It was another amazing night at the Todos Santos Music Festival with a blistering set that lasted almost three hours long–a fitting finish to four incredible nights of music. It was as though the band had decided to never leave the stage again.
Some highlights from the final
The Atlantic has a great feature article on the band titled America’s Rock Band. Read it here.
I am here for the first night of Peter’s Todos Santos Music Festival at the excellent Hotel California:
The town is buzzing with excitement and so many friends and fans have traveled from all over to be here. Leading off is The Baseball Project. Steve
Happy Birthday wishes go out to Michael today!
March 8, 2011, marked the release of R.E.M.’s 15th studio album, Collapse Into Now, easily one of the band’s most diverse offerings and undeniably one of their finest. The Independent, UK lauded the record for its “recurrent themes of conclusion, starting over and rebuilding [which] lend
March 8, 2011, marked the release of R.E.M.’s 15th studio album, Collapse Into Now, easily one of the band’s most diverse offerings, and undeniably one of their finest. The Independent, UK lauded the record for its “recurrent themes of conclusion, starting over and rebuilding [which] lend
The band has been named one of Ology.com’s “Musicians of the Year” in the cultural website’s ongoing “Year in Review” rollout:
A lot of great bands called it quits in 2011, but none with the same level of accomplishment, integrity, and influence as Athens, GA’s original alternative rock heroes: R.E.M. Over
Today, three days from the end of the year 2011, I am thinking a lot in threes: three decades of life with R.E.M., three guys at the end, three is a good number. Favorite things are sometimes hard to isolate–threes are easier at least for me:
So . . .three
R.E.M. is on the list of the The New York Times “75 Things New Yorkers Talked About in 2011.” Check out the list at nytimes.com.