After a quick two-week break, the band returns to action this Thursday at the Frequency Festival in Salzburg, Austria. The Salzburg show is the first of thirty upcoming European shows R.E.M. will play from August through October featuring stops in Hungary, Czech Republic, Germany, the United
The Baseball Project, yet another manifestation of Scott McCaughey and Peter Buck’s penchant for musical revelry, has garnered massive kudos in the month since its debut release on Yep Roc Records (U.S.) and Blue Rose (Europe). Since the band’s national TV appearances on David
After a quick two-week break, the band returns to action this Thursday at the Frequency Festival in Salzburg, Austria. The Salzburg show is the first of thirty upcoming European shows R.E.M. will play from August through October featuring stops in Hungary, Czech Republic, Germany, the United
Click here to watch a great 35 minute video interview with Mike Mills on ManiaTV.
Well, the break’s been nice here in early August, but only a few days to go until R.E.M. is back in action: the first shows are the Frequency Festival in Salzburg and Sziget in Budapest, followed rapidly by Prague, always a favorite, some
These photos from the Berlin Waldbühne show were taken for ‘citybirches photography works’, a book and exhibit project by Stephan Laackman. The show is consists of photography of alternative bands that have performed in Germany. It will be published with the ‘citybirches photography works’ exhibit 2009/2010. Click
We are happy to announce the arrival of the first batch of limited edition showposters from select dates on the ACCELERATE 2008 TOUR. The posters are individually silk-screened and hand numbered in editions of 150. We were lucky to work with some artists from the 2005 tour, as well as
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
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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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
Be sure to listen to R.E.M.’s Dresden concert (which took place on 7-15 at Elbufer) this week as it streams online WORLDWIDE in its entirety on Virgin Radio: Click here to listen and, in the meantime, have a look at a review of the show posted
Check out these beautiful photographs of R.E.M. in Naples taken by the super-talented David Belisle. Semplicemente favoloso!
Ten days after its world premiere at spinner.com, the video for Man-Sized Wreath has received props for its use of animation, live-action, motion graphics, and stop motion, among other things, most notably from digital arts online and itsartmag.com. If you haven’t
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.
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