“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.
The Chicago Sun-Times has voted R.E.M.’s final single We All Go Back To Where We Belong one of the eleven best songs of 2011. Visit suntimes.com for the entire poll.
Chris Heath takes a look at the implications of the band’s split in the following essay from GQ.com’s look back at the year in music:
And millions of Americans are surprised to find themselves suddenly remembering, as though awakening from a trance, how much they used to love R.E.M. How simultaneously
Here’s an excerpt from Michael’s recent interview with the NY Times:
NY Times: A member of R.E.M. once said that in the early days you guys drank a lot and took a lot of speed. Listening to the older songs on your new retrospective, “Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part
Spin.com is currently featuring a recap of their Top 20 albums of 1991. The list includes such notables as Nirvana’s Nevermind, Pearl Jam’s Ten, The Pixies Trompe le Monde as well as R.E.M.’s Out Of Time. Check it out at spin.com.