As Athens transforms from sleepy summer hamlet into bustling college town virtually overnight, here’s the end of the summer weekend update:
BASEBALL PROJECT SHOWS AND BROADSIDE BALLADS
The Baseball Project (this time it’s Scott McCaughey/Steve Wynn/Linda Pitmon/Mike Mills) will be in North Adams, MASS, on Saturday where they’ll play the SolidSoundFestival (with
Scott McCaughey reports:
To those in the New York City area, and the great Northeast (the rest of you please pardon the intrusion):
The Baseball Project (this time it’s Scott McCaughey/Steve Wynn/Linda Pitmon/Mike Mills) performs:
Thursday Aug. 12 – Maxwell’s, Hoboken NJ (with super special guest DENNIS DIKEN & BELL
A few brief notes to pass along from another torrid Friday in the deep South at REMHQ:
The Baseball Project, with special pinch-hitter Mike Mills guaranteed a spot in the starting rotation in place of the normally Cal Ripken-like Peter Buck, will play two huge shows next week.
Tired Pony will play their debut American show at the Gramercy Theatre in New York City on October 1st.
The band, spearheaded by Snow Patrol’s Gary Lightbody, is a collaborative project featuring R.E.M.’s Peter Buck, Belle and Sebastian’s Richard Colburn, Troy Stewart, singer songwriter Iain Archer, acclaimed producer
As we head into a hot Georgia weekend, we wanted to do a quick wrap-up of the latest news from REMHQ:
BERLIN STUDIO NEWS
Rolling Stone has a nice write up of the band’s studio time in Berlin. You can read it here.
RECLAIM THE COAST BENEFIT CONCERTS
As part of Michael’s
Sen. Al Franken devoted his keynote address at Netroots Nation Saturday night,to the single most important issue for preserving the future of the First Amendment: the corporate takeover of free speech and preserving net neutrality.
You can watch his speech here.
Reclaim The Coast Benefit Concerts – Friday July 23rd, Sunday July 25th & Friday July 30th.
On Friday, City Winery will welcome the legendary folk singer and environmental activist Pete Seeger to kick off three nights of fundraising efforts for the Gulf Coast. Mr. Seeger who has penned a number of
Check out this interview Peter and Gary Lightbody did with BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat earlier today and have a look at Tired Pony’s performance of “Dead American Writers” at the HMV Forum in London on July 14th:
As the first week of the release of the Fables reissue comes to a close, the album reviews are beginning to roll in and we’ve compiled a shortlist of a few noteworthy ones below:.
Lots of Tired Pony happenings this week with the release of their debut album The Place We Ran From on Monday, a highly-anticipated sold-out performance tonight at the Forum in London, press rounds with radio and TV appearances all week, and a new single, Dead American Writers all
The band has completed the third phase of recording their next record at Hansa Studio in Berlin with Jacknife Lee and will now set about mixing it at some point this Fall. Though we don’t have a definitive date, all signs are pointing towards a Spring 2011 release of
Peter and Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody were on BBC Breakfast this morning to talk about Tired Pony and their debut album, “The Place We Ran From,” which was released today. Tired Pony, comprised of Gary and Peter along with Scott McCaughey, Garret Jacknife Lee, Troy Stewart,
Listen to a stream of Throw Those Trolls Away, one of the 14 tracks on the Bonus CD (“The Athens Demos”) of the forthcoming Fables Of The Reconstruction 25th Anniversary Edition reissue by clicking here. The Fables anniversary edition hits stores and online outlets outside the USA
In honor of the 25th anniversary release of Fables of the Reconstruction on July 13, 2010, Cine, the Athens art-house cinema, will screen a special showing of a 25-song concert that the band performed in Germany on October 2, 1985 for the Rockpalast live German television music show. The concert