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The band had a GREAT time in Japan, and David Belisle & Bob Weber sent us a few photos. Enjoy!

R.E.M is honored to be nominated for a 2005 Croatian Porin Award. This award is the highest honor in Croatian music awards, similar to the Grammy Awards in the United States.

In the category of Best Foreign Video Program, R.E.M. has been nominated for Perfect Square, the live

It has been a very interesting ten days here in South Africa; with extended visits to both Cape Town and Johannesburg, cities about as different as San Francisco is from Chicago. And the Trafalgar Square show in 2001 for Nelson Mandela was one of those times you always remember,

We have all enjoyed our several days here. Two tremendous shows in front of some of the most enthusiastic, raucous crowds R.E.M. has ever seen (and heard); On Saturday night, the staccato clapping part during the bridge, where the audience mimics the sounds on stage, literally was louder than the

R.E.M resumed their tour in Cape Town, South Africa, this evening with a rousing set at Bellville Velodrome. Word just in from Bertis via mobile phone that it was one of the most intense and captivating shows of the tour thus far with a fired-up South African audience of

You can check out the video for R.E.M.’s latest single, Electron Blue, by clicking on the banner at the top of the main news page.

Electron Blue was released as the third single from Around the Sun on Monday, February 28th. The video was made with Blue Leach from screen

We are in the Departure Lounge of Dublin’s airport, getting ready for a lot of flying (to Cape Town), then a few days before our first-ever show in South Africa (Friday night in Cape Town).

What a great weekend—it was Ireland after all. Belfast was the realization of a long-time

Although R.E.M has played the Republic of Ireland many times in previous years–the first being in 1984 at SFX and the last being at Marlay Park in 2003–the guys have never journeyed up North until now. So, it is with great anticipation and a sense of “we finally made

London was tremendous in every way–show, aftershow, friends, families, city, press–all fun, all great…even some sunshine and a day (yesterday) to rest up for the stretch run here in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Ireland. The show at the Apollo was our second in 6 months

R.E.M is in London today for a show at the Apollo Theatre. Support will be from Athens’ band Now it’s Overhead. Tonight’s show will mark the first in a string of five UK concerts. R.E.M. will play Sheffield, Glasgow, Birmingham, and Belfast, Northern Ireland.

ELECTRON BLUE
Electron Blue

Something about last nights with support bands we love… tonight in Hamburg marks the end of The Thrills opening run with us, which started a couple of weeks ago in Stockholm. So as a great send-off, Peter did his usual mandolin turn on “The Curse of Comfort,” then a

Click the Tour Photo banner on the main news page for the latest spectacular photos from Leipzig, Berlin, and tonight’s show in Copenhagen.

All you need to know about the Stuttgart show is it started with I Took Your Name and finished with Iggy Pop’s classic I Wanna be your Dog (marking the first time on the tour they have played on beyond Man on the Moon) and in between there

Things are a little hectic in Vienna, at least in my world, so I will be brief in my Friday update….maybe the two day break got me out of practice. It was nice having the short respite in an otherwise-intense pace; people either spent the days off in Paris

Blender.com has an interview they’ve just posted with Michael in which R.E.M’s singer fields questions from fans about the coolest thing he owns, the TV show he would most like to appear on, a bad hair day that lasted an entire year, and much more. Please click here