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BERLIN PHOTOS


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

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R.E.M. LIMITED EDITION SHOWPOSTERS AVAILABLE


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

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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,