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SOME PHOTOS FROM THE SHOWS


Here are some of David Belisle’s favorite shots of the first two months of the tour. David is a busy man, juggling a few jobs on the road with us, and he does them all well but always finds a way to snap the best upclose and funny

R.E.M. ADDS MEXICO CITY CONCERT TO 2008 TOUR


We are very excited to announce that R.E.M. will play a concert at the Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City on November 18th. Tickets for the Mexico City show will go on sale to the general public next Wednesday, August 6. For more information, please click here.

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WEEKEND POSTCARD FROM MILAN


In a summer of uncommonly gorgeous settings for R.E.M. concerts (Bilbao, Lyon, Verona, Locarno, and Dresden immediately come to mind), last night’s outside Udine (in the far northeastern corner of Italy), stood out in its unique beauty: the show was in the huge interior courtyard of a centuries’ old

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PHOTO DIARY FROM ITALY


Check out these beautiful photographs of R.E.M. in Naples taken by the super-talented David Belisle. Semplicemente favoloso!

PODCAST OF MICHAEL’S NEWS CUBE INTERVIEW AT ITUNES


iTunes has a podcast of Michael’s recent interview with The News Cube, MTV News UK’s roundup of some of the week’s big music stories (7-22-2008 program). Click HERE to launch the application that will direct you to the podcast in your iTunes player.

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MICHAEL JOINS T FOR TIBET CAMPAIGN


Michael has joined with other like-minded musicians, activists, actors, athletes, and artists in supporting Free Tibet’s T For Tibet campaign. The campaign, which involves making the T For Tibet hand signal, represents a show of solidarity for the Tibetan people whose unique culture, religion and basic human

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TOUR MOVES TO SWITZERLAND AND ITALY


R.E.M.’s world tour moves through Locarno, Switzerland tonight (the band has just finished their set (enter remlocarno at “query” to see twittered set list) at Moon and Stars in the Piazza Grande Locarno as we type…getting ready for the encore) and over to Perugia,

ISTANBUL TICKETS ON SALE TODAY


Tickets for R.E.M.’s October 4th concert at Turkcell Kurucesme Arena in Instanbul, Turkey go on sale today. For ticket information, please click here.

From the ticket website:

R.E.M. makes Istanbul debut!

Pozitif Music is making a dream come true by making the most anticipated concert of all time, a reality…REM

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FIRST WE TAKE BERLIN…THEN WE TAKE LOCARNO – – – OR SOMETHING


The set last night was a cracker–These Days straight into Horse to Water into Second Guessing into Kenneth all without so much as a breath– wow! And later treats like Seven Chinese Bros and Hollow Man in the encore; from start to finish, it was just an energetic and frenetic

DRESDEN COUNTRY FEEDBACK


One of many inspired moments in Dresden was Country Feedback, long time band and fan favorite, getting its third airing of the tour last night:

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DRESDEN SOUNDCHECK AUDIO EXCLUSIVE (update)


Earlier today Michael sent in a soundcheck recording of “Living Well Is The Best Revenge” from Dresden, Germany prior to tonight’s show, along with the following message:

BERTIS hey, great fun in Dresden today…great to be in germany we did a truncated soundcheck so Editors could