This past Friday, February 18th, Peter made a guest appearance with the Decemberists at their show at the Paramount in Seattle. The Seattle Examiner has a full account of the show, and you can watch Peter playing alongside Colin Meloy and the rest of the band on
Peter, Mike, and Michael talk about the making of COLLAPSE INTO NOW in a ten minute and 35 second long interview at msn.com.
With the release of COLLAPSE INTO NOW just two weeks away in some countries, excitement in the R.E.M. world is at a fever pitch. After sharing five songs from the new record over the past few weeks, we’re ready for the world to hear the full record. Unfortunately
Spin magazine’s review of COLLAPSE INTO NOW finds the band “refreshed and refueled for a new alt-rock reckoning,” Read the full review HERE.
As the Village Voice reports, Mike will be part of an all-star cast paying tribute to Big Star in New York City on March 26th. The show, similar in scope to the December 2010 performance of Big Star’s Third at the Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro, NC, will be
The Remix Project for IT HAPPENED TODAY which kicked off earlier this week has been a rousing success with over 100 remixed versions of the song posted at Soundcloud.com. If you would like to try your own hand at it, go just below to grab all the
Thus far, the response to the “It Happened Today” Remix Project has been fantastic. Over thirty mixes have been posted at Soundcloud.com, and while the results are tremendously varied [and even occasionally bizarre (in the most complimentary sense)], they’re all uniformly impressive. It’s been fun for
Fire up your laptops and get ready to remix your own version of “It Happened Today.” Jacknife Lee has just delivered all the multi-track files and we are posting them here for you to download, remix, reimagine, remake. They are in AIFF and Garageband formats, so pick
David Fricke of Rolling Stone takes a look at the band’s forthcoming album and speaks to Peter and Mike in an article called “R.E.M. Roar Back With Collapse Into Now” at rollingstone.com.
For a limited time, Amazon.com is offering a free MP3 download of Oh My Heart from the band’s upcoming record. Download here!
Earlier this week, the video for “Mine Smell Like Honey,” filmed and directed by Dominic DeJoseph, premiered at spinner.com. The film was shot in Berlin at Hansa Studios where the band recorded a portion of their new record; Michael had this to say about it:
everyone will have seen, or
Today Rollingstone.com premiered the new video for “Discoverer.” The video was filmed at Hansa Studio in Berlin and features the band performing an explosive live version of the lead track from their forthcoming record, COLLAPSE INTO NOW. Go here to watch.
Visit spinner.com for their exclusive premiere of Dominic DeJoseph’s video for “Mine Smell Like Honey” along with comments about the video from Mike.
everyone will have seen, or will soon see our first film for COLLAPSE INTO NOW, directed by DOMINIC DEJOSEPH, for the song MINE SMELL LIKE HONEY. it was shot last summer in Berlin at Hansa Studio, in the stairwell that connects the recording studio to the big room several
Stereogum.com has posted a live video of the band performing Oh My Heart at Hansa Studio in Berlin. Click here to listen to Michael describe the song and to watch the performance.