Mike Mills joined Chris Stamey, Mitch Easter, and a band of some serious renown last night for the first of two shows celebrating and paying tribute to Big Star’s “lost album” Third. It was quite a night . . . where to
Indy Week has a great profile on the two Big Star tribute shows taking place in Carrborro, NC, tonight and tomorrow night. Mike will join Jody Stephens, Chris Stamey, Mitch Easter, Jeff Crawford, Will Rigby, and a rotating cast of vocalists as they perform Big Star’s Third/Sister Lovers at
As we reported here back in the fall, Mike will be in Carrborro, North Carolina, on December 9th and 10th along with an all-star cast of musicians to pay tribute to Big Star’s third album, Sister Lovers, at the Cat’s Cradle.
Sister Lovers will be performed in its entirety
Congratulations to our longtime friend, neighbor, and colleague John Keane who received a Grammy nomination for his work with Athens band Widespread Panic on their latest disc, Dirty Side Down. John’s nomination is in the Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical category. John has worked
In their upcoming January issue, Q magazine has a feature on R.E.M. and the making of COLLAPSE INTO NOW. In the article, which you can read here, Tom Doyle talks to both Peter and Mike about recording at the fabled Hansa Tonstudio in Berlin, the band’s
The tracklisting for R.E.M.’s forthcoming release, COLLAPSE INTO NOW, was revealed in the latest Fan Club newsletter earlier this week. Here it is:
Collapse Into Now
01. Discoverer
02. All The Best
03. Uberlin
04. Oh My Heart
05. It Happened Today
06. Every Day Is Yours To Win
07. Mine Smell Like Honey
08. Walk It
A total of 90 bands and musicians, including R.E.M., Ozzy Osbourne, My Morning Jacket, Pearl Jam, Bonnie Raitt, OK Go, Rise Against, Tab Benoit, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, the New Orleans Bingo! Show, Galactic and more, added their support to a letter sent to the White House that urged the
On March 13, 2008, R.E.M. made their first-ever appearance on the venerable and much-beloved PBS program, Austin City Limits, which currently holds the distinction of being the longest-running show on television. The band’s performance featured a number of rockers from their fourteenth studio album, Accelerate, released later
Hammer and Tongs (aka Garth Jennings and Nick Goldsmith) have a new DVD collection out next week which brings together assorted music videos they have made for artists such as Beck, Fatboy Slim, Blur, Pulp, Vampire Weekend, and R.E.M. for whom they directed the groundbreaking video for “Imitation
Congratulations to Chris Bilheimer and his frequent collaborators Lance Bangs, Dan Donahue and of course Michael Stipe, on the opening of Chris’ career retrospective exhibition at ATHICA in Athens last night.
The show runs through Monday, so hurry down to see a stunning collection of everything Chris has
On November 5th, Peter appeared on the Oregon-based variety show Live Wire with Portland band the Upsidedown. The show also featured a conversation with Oregon Congressman Earl Blumenauer and Essayist/Writer/Blogger Nathanial Boggess. The podcast of Episode 132 is now is available at Live Wire’s website. Check
R.E.M.’s art director par excellence Chris Bilheimer has two design exhibits opening this weekend in Athens. On Friday night, Chris will be part of a three-man multimedia show at Cine called “Blackboards and Smokebombs.” This show, including work by Dan Donahue and Lance Bangs, will feature 175
Peter Buck will be joining The Upsidedown for tonight’s Live Wire show at the Alberta Rose Theater in Portland. Live Wire, a radio variety show performed before a live audience, contains music, conversation and comedy by “highlighting the best musicians and most fascinating people we can find.” Tonight’s
Following yesterday’s interview with spin.com, Mike has also spoken to Rolling Stone about the band’s new record COLLAPSE INTO NOW (due out spring 2011). Read the article here.
Mike has revealed some details about R.E.M.’s new record, COLLAPSE INTO NOW (due out this spring), in an interview posted at spin.com.