As daughters and sons everywhere get ready to celebrate Mother’s Day next weekend (May 8), Michael wanted to pass along the news that his good friend and maternal health-relief activist Christy Turlington Burns has a CD compilation called Every Mother Counts featuring songs on the theme of motherhood inspired by
TIME Magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world includes a wide range of artists and activists, reformers and researchers, heads of state and captains of industry. According to TIME, “Their ideas spark dialogue and dissent and sometimes even revolution.” One of 2011’s most influential people is Patti Smith who
Starting at midnight tonight (12:00 Eastern/9:00 Pacific), YouTube will premiere the new film forÃÂ Every Day Is Yours To Win. The film will be hosted on the YouTube homepage for 24 hours and will feature an introduction by Michael Stipe and co-director Jim McKay. Michael and Jim will also
Happy Earth Day to everyone. On this notable day, we wanted to draw your attention to two very special organizations (with whom the band has partnered at various points over the years) who are taking the lead in standing up for the environment: the Dogwood Alliance and the
Murmurs.com reports that the singer-songwriter known as Saint John and the Revelations has published in his blog details of a collaboration with Peter, Scott McCaughey, and Bill Rieflin:
“I recently started recording some new songs with Peter BucK, Bill Rieflin, and Scott McCaughey, and I’m very excited
Michael’s interview with the BBC’s Matt Everitt for the “First Time” is now streaming at the 6 Music website for the next 6 days. Please click below to listen to the interview.
This Saturday night, the music world turns its attention to the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings as Robert Spano, internationally-acclaimed conductor of The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, makes a special guest artist appearance to lead the Center for Strings Orchestra in a performance of Bartók Divertmento for Strings at The Grand
April 16th is Record Store Day worldwide, and R.E.M. will have a big presence this year as in years past. To kick off the weekend, Peter will be at Easy Street Records in Seattle (the Queen Anne location) where he will be clerking and signing
Read Scott McCaughey’s summary of The Baseball Project’s Cactus League tour 2011 below:
The Baseball Project completed its Cactus League tour with a nice homecoming show (for me, anyway!) at the very cool Bunk Bar in Portland OR. We had great times bringing the four-seamed-fastball rock to Georgia, New Orleans,
Sam Taylor-Wood’s video for “Uberlin” is now eligible for voting on the VH1 Top 20 Countdown for next week’s show. Cast your vote for “Uberlin” HERE and see where it ends up in next week’s countdown.
During his press tour for COLLAPSE INTO NOW Michael did an interview with Italy’s top national daily CORRIERE DELLA SERA. The video interview is available at CDS’ website.