Brief Dispatch from Washington, DC, where Mike Mills and I are enjoying the Future of Music Coalition’s Tenth Annual Policy Summit. There have been highlights aplenty, old connections rekindled with people we only see once or so a year, along with new friends and faces
Tired Pony caps off the second of their limited run of stateside shows this evening at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles following a successful show in New York City at Irving Plaza where they were joined onstage by Michael this past Friday.
Michael sang Tom Smith’s part on “The Good Book” during Tired Pony’s show in New York City at Irving Plaza on Friday night:
Tired Pony moves on to LA where they’ll play at the El Rey Theatre
Reminder to tune into GLEE this coming Tuesday night, October 5th, for an episode that will feature Losing My Religion. Word is that the GLEE iPhone app will include Losing My Religion. Take a crack at their karaoke game in advance of Tuesday’s episode here.
ROLLING STONE
Tired Pony’s debut record The Place We Ran From was released in the USA on Tuesday, and the band is in New York City tonight where they’ll be performing on LATE NIGHT WITH DAVID LETTERMAN. The show airs at 11:35 Eastern/10:35 Central. Tired Pony
DEFENDING THE OPEN INTERNET
The band joined with MoveOn.org and a diverse group of musical artists earlier this week to press the FCC to write regulations that will prevent telecoms from asserting control over the flow of information. Find out more about MoveOn’s efforts to defend the Open Internet…
CALLING
The band joined with MoveOn.org and several other like-minded artists today to press the FCC to write regulations that will prevent telecoms from asserting control over the flow of information. Jackson Browne, the Roots, Rosanne Cash, OK Go, Moby and Bonnie Raitt are among the artists to sign
As Bertis noted in his postcard dated September 10th, the band has been in Nashville putting the finishing touches on their next record for the past couple of weeks. Today, we can confirm that the guys have wrapped up things in Nashville. All signs are pointing toward a
Michael has written a guide to New Orleans which GOOP.com, Gwyneth Paltrow’s newsletter-based lifestyle site, has posted as an exclusive. The guide offers Michael’s insight on New Orleans restaurants, bars, coffee houses, nightclubs, sights and more.
To read the guide, please click here. Learn more
We are very excited to announce that New West Records will release R.E.M. Live From Austin, TX, the latest DVD from the acclaimed PBS Austin City Limits (ACL) television series, on October 26, 2010. Taken from the band’s March 13, 2008 ACL concert, which has been
America has always been a place where all faiths have a home.
a great reminder that tolerance is more American than division
Bertis reports: Band finishing work on the record in Nashville. All going well, songs sounding great; the band, ably assisted by Jacknife and team, in the homestretch of making what sounds to me like a great R.E.M. record. And between New Orleans, Berlin, and Nashville,
Click the link below to check out a little video of some of the sessions in Nashville sent to us by Michael.
after anton corbijn’s THE AMERICAN and a great italian meal, mike and michael wait for bertis in the lobby, and weigh in on the evening’s entertainment…and it’s…4 thumbs up!!!
Happy Labor Day all.
A stripey Friday in Nashville…