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POSTCARD FROM LONDON VIA CHRONICTOWN


For those of us not fortunate enough to be at the RAH show in London last night, there was a great back up plan for punters from afar: the fantastic live stream of the show brought to you by the good people at BBC RADIO 2

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POSTCARD FROM LONDON-TOWN


The spring day dawned crisp and clear this morning in central London, but it is now flurrying snow, so our mid-winter’s promo-tour continues after a rare and welcome day “off” here in the capital a week before ACCELERATE is finally released (not counting the iLIKE.com stream that

BBC RADIO WEBCAST UPDATE


For those of you following the action from London’s Royal Albert Hall today from home, the Radio 2 webcast goes live around 5:30 EDT HERE.

An archive page will be up from around 6:30 ET tonight HERE while the 6 Radio interview Steve Lamacq conducted

LISTEN TO ACCELERATE ON ILIKE.COM


ACCELERATE premieres tomorrow, March 25th, one week before its street date, on iLIKE.com. The record will be streaming for an entire week, from March 25-March 31, so be sure to visit iLIKE.com and have a listen…

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NINE DAYS OF NINETY NIGHTS TO GO


It’s night 81 of NINETYNIGHTS.COM which means that ACCELERATE is a mere 9 days from release. R.E.M.’s 14th studio record continues to rack up impressive reviews in papers and magazines everywhere. With so many reviews and interviews to choose from, we’ve rounded up a

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FRIDAY ROUNDUP FROM LONDON


The band arrives this weekend in London for Monday’s big show at the Royal Albert Hall after a concert earlier this week at the Rolling Stone Club in Milan for an invited audience that included R.E.M. Fan Club members. While in London, R.E.M. will also play a set at

R.E.M. RADIO SHOW ON Q


Q Magazine’s web site, Q4music.com, has posted a very cool feature called the R.E.M. RADIO SHOW. The April issue of Q features a cover mount CD–the R.E.M. Jukebox–for which the band selected 15 tracks. In Q’s special R.E.M. RADIO SHOW, Peter, Mike, and Michael play

LONDON CALLING!


REMHQ can now confirm that R.E.M. will play a set at the London Apple iTunes Store on Wednesday, March 26th. The iTunes one-off will be the band’s second appearance in London during their two-week European promotional tour. There are a few competitions in the works for tickets, most notably

POSTCARD FROM SXSW


Wow! What a week we just enjoyed in Austin for South BY Southwest.

Among the highlights were:

-Playing our showcase at Stubbs, which was joined by a bunch of other great bands and the whole night carried live and now streaming on NPR.org. Bob Boilen, music