Hey y’all, I’m in the middle of a pile of guitars and clothes, preparing for the next four months of my peripatetic life, but I wanted to inform everyone about what’s happening,
As you know, the Todos Santos Music Festival is on this year, and we’ve got a lot of great
Our friends at GreenLaw, whose roots date back to Athens more than 20 years ago, are some of the best environmental lawyers anywhere. Check out their new PSA, featuring “Fall On Me”, on air pollution here.
MTV premiered R.E.M.’s first music video in the Summer of 1981. On November 24, the network will release REMTV a six DVD set that includes live performances, television interviews, and a new documentary. Check out the trailer for “R.E.M. By MTV.”
WATCH IT HERE
Here’s an outtake from the monumental (and soaking wet!) Rock am Ring concert in 2005: “Bad Day” fierce and live in Nurnburg, Germany. Included on the forthcoming DVD retrospective, REMTV (pre-order link below).
Pre-order REMTV due out November 24.
Last weekend Mike Mills realized a long term project in the making when he gathered a group of musicians at 1093 Boulevard Studios and recorded his composition “Concerto for Violin and Rock Band” with his since childhood friend, Robert McDuffie. Mr. McDuffie is an acclaimed concert violinist, having played as
Peter Buck and the incomparable Alejandro Escovedo are touring together this Fall. They’ll be playing 14 dates from Oct. 24 – Nov. 14, and you can bet this is one high-energy show you won’t want to miss! Tour dates, ticket information, and other details here.
Hotel California and Vaso Loco, LLC, a company founded by guitarist Peter Buck, today announced that The Autumn Defense will make a special appearance at the fourth annual Todos Santos Music Festival, a two-week philanthropic music event. The festival, held in Todos Santos at the legendary Hotel California and in
Check out this classic clip of “Fall On Me” from R.E.M.’s 1991 MTV Unplugged performance (now available on cd, vinyl, and digitally with order links below)
The video for “Fall On Me” along with others from the monumental 1991 show are included on REMTV, the 6-DVD retrospective set,
80 WSE Gallery is pleased to present NEW SIGHTS, NEW NOISE, an evolving exhibition project generated by Michael Stipe concurrently with his visiting artist and scholar residency in the NYU Steinhardt Department of Art and Art Professions. The project is produced collaboratively with Jonathan Berger and includes contributions from special
We’ve posted a short series of photos from the opening night of Michael’s NEW SIGHTS, NEW NOISE evolving exhibition project at 80WSE Gallery at NYU at the REM Facebook Page (HERE). 80WSE Gallery Director Jonathan Berger has invited Michael to be NYU Steinhardt Department of Art & Art
Salon.com’s Annie Zaleski looks at some of R.E.M.’s most “surprising” covers. Read it here.
The more things change– when MONSTER came out there were things like rec lists and message boards– and the internets were pretty wonky– the “CB radio of our time” one wag disparaged it– and oh yeah, floppy discs– yep, there was an actual MONSTER floppy disc– want proof!? Here!
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Something that we enjoyed seeing from our intrepid friends at The R.E.M. Timeline on this twentieth anniversary of Monster today:
‘Time to blow out the candles, Monster is 20!’
Exactly 20 years ago today on 26 September 1994, R.E.M.’s 9th album ‘Monster’ was released in Europe & Australasia, & our US friends