R.E.M.: AMERICA’S ROCK BAND AT THEATLANTIC.COM
The Atlantic has a great feature article on the band titled America’s Rock Band. Read it here.
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BERTIS SENDS QUICK DISPATCH FROM TODOS SANTOS
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 MICHAEL!
Happy Birthday wishes go out to Michael today!
WATCH MICHAEL SING “WICHITA LINEMAN” AT BOWERY IN NYC
THE YEAR IN REVIEW: COLLAPSE INTO 2011
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 YEAR IN REVIEW: COLLAPSE INTO 2011
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
R.E.M. AMONG OLOGY’S “MUSICIANS OF THE YEAR”
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
END-OF-YEAR POSTCARD FROM THE BREAK
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
THE 75 THINGS NEW YORKERS TALKED ABOUT IN 2011
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.
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES VOTES “WE ALL GO BACK TO WHERE WE BELONG” ONE OF YEAR’S BEST
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.
GQ.COM WEIGHS IN ON R.E.M.’S SPLIT IN “THE YEAR IN MUSIC”
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
NY TIMES FEATURE: “MICHAEL STIPE IS NOT GRUMPY”
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 LOOKS BACK AT OUT OF TIME
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.
BID ON MICHAEL’S PHOTO OF PATTI SMITH TO BENEFIT PRC BOSTON
Bids are currently being accepted at artnet.com on a photograph Michael took of Patti Smith in 1995 (the photo was featured in Michael’s book Two Times Intro: On the Road with Patti Smith. Proceeds from the auction will benefit the Photographic Resource Center (PRC) at Boston
WEEKEND ROUNDUP: PETER BUCK, COLLAPSE INTO NOW & OTHER ODDS AND ENDS
Check out this weekend’s roundup below with the latest on Peter Buck, Collapse Into Now, “Losing My Religion,” R.E.M. Tributes, and Todos Santos:
PETER BUCK: IN THE NEWS
In honor of Peter’s birthday earlier this week on December 6th, we’ve posted the great photo above of him in Buck Snort, TN.