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…Or self-deprecating. And it’s Ferguson, not Kilborn. And Pennsylvania is hardly the heartlands.

Michael had a fun and now controversial conversation with Jane Pratt on her Sirius radio show on his birthday [Jan. 4th], and it was picked up by Reuters and now is

Murmurs.com (compliments of Lucy) has posted an interview with Michael from the latest Uncut magazine in which he discusses R.E.M.’s forthcoming record Accelerate (due out April 1 in North America and March 31 elsewhere), the recording process, and the Dublin working rehearsals.

Be sure to check out

As the new year rolls in, be sure to check out remring.com’s 20 Most Noteworthy R.E.M. Events of 2007. From Stereogum’s tribute to Automatic For The People to the Athens Historical Society’s outstanding retrospective on the band’s historical connection to the city of Athens, there is sure to be

Some plane reading for a holiday news cycle:

Two interesting items of potential interest:

Seattle Times Op-Ed by longtime friend/colleague on freedom of expression in the digital age:

Click here to read.

I liked the piece because it made the brouhaha over the smoldering issue of Network Neutrality pretty vivid and real;

In addition to the report by the DCist we posted earlier this week, please click here to read the Future of Music Coalition’s report on Hope For Home which took place on December 3rd, featuring a performance by Mike Mills.

Michael joins David Byrne, U2, Laurie Anderson, Cat Power, Antony & the Johnsons, Thurston Moore & Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth), Danger Mouse and a host of other musicians and artists who are part of Visionaire 53. SOUND, consisting of five 12-inch vinyl records, imprinted with images (picture discs), containing approximately

Visit DCist.com for an outstanding article on Mike’s performance at “Hope for Home” in Washington, DC earlier this week. Mike performed “Wendell Gee,” “Love is All Around,” “Hope for the Fathers,” a song Mike wrote in honor of baseball legend Roberto Clemente, and “Rockville” as part of

Michael hosted the Food Bank For New York City’s Annual Lunchbox Live Auction last night in Manhattan. Over 150 artists, actors, musicians, and personalities have decorated lunchboxes for the fundraiser which will continue through December 21st online.

Michael’s lunchbox went for a whopping $35,000 at the event last

The Future of Music Coalition will host a house party tomorrow night to benefit New Orleans musician Al “Carnival Time” Johnson and Sweet Home New Orleans, an organization that seeks to bring musicians back to the city in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Mike will be on

Local Musicians Sing Woody Guthrie’s Dust Bowl Ballads and Originals

Tuesday, November 27, Athens, GA

40 Watt and Flicker – Two Stages!

FREE ($5 suggested donation)

Doors open at 7pm

In 1940, Woody Guthrie recorded Dust Bowl Ballads, an album about the struggles of common people during the great dust bowl. The album

We are just back from several weeks in Europe. First Michael covered a lot of ground and air in promoting the new LIVE record everywhere from Jools Holland and Radio 2 in London, to the MTV Awards show in Munich. . .with a few whistlestops in between in favorite cities

Our good friend Anton Corbijn, legendary rock photographer and director of Control, is planning on taking over SIRIUS’ Left Of Center channel 26 on November 21 at 10pm EST.

Anton will talk about Control and will play songs that are featured on the film’s soundtrack. For more information, please visit

Today, as the band puts the finishing touches on the new record, we are pleased to announce that R.E.M. will be appearing at the 6th Annual Langerado Festival at Big Cypress Indian Reservation, (approximately 30 miles west of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida) on March 8th. It looks to be

David Fricke of Rolling Stone has written a review of R.E.M.Live which you can read by clicking here.