Athens Potluck is a conceptual photography project about the Athens music scene, which I’ve been working on for the past few years. What makes this project unique is that the Athens musicians are driving the content. I chose the first musician to be photographed, Laura Carter of the Orange Twin
Pitchfork has posted a clip from Alex Young’s outstanding documentary on the band, R.E.M. By MTV. Check out the clip, which takes a look at the Monster tour here
VH1 has posted a clip from R.E.M. By MTV, the documentary by Alex Young, which will premiere on VH1 Classic and Palladia Saturday at 9:00 PM EST.
Watch the clip here.
Here’s a great photo of the band from 1983 by Laura Levine… Laura says, “Here’s one of my favorite shots from one of many photo sessions I did with R.E.M. over the years, taken in my Chinatown apartment in 1983. The guys and my cat Tchatchke have a showdown. Any
Use your #tumblr page to post photos of your REMTV-related memories & memorabilia–tour tickets, t-shirts, photos of the band, videos, concert experiences, etc–from any of the shows you might have attended included in the REMTV box–with the hashtag #REMTVandMe…
We’ll curate & select posts to reblog on remhq.tumblr.com/
What a wonderful night at the screening of #REMTV at the DIrectors Guild Theater in NYC! I managed to sneak in a couple of snaps with my iPhone: there’s Bertis introducing the film, and Michael and Mike, along with director/producer Alexander Young and editor David Leopold, doing a post-screening Q&A.
This Saturday, R.E.M. BY MTV, the new documentary on the band by Alexander Young, will premiere on both VH1 and Palladia at 9pm EST. Check out a clip here.
Paste Magazine’s Michele McManmon looks at REMTV in an article posted earlier today:
(L-R) David Leopold, Editor, Alexander Young, Director and Producer and Mike MIlls last week in NYC. Another showing of the documentary takes place tomorrow night at Sunshine Cinema on Houston St, NYC.
And here is a good article on R.E.M. BY MTV in director Alexander
Alexander Young, director of R.E.M. By MTV is featured in this article in his hometown newspaper… check it out here
Check out “Losing My Religion” live from Madison, Georgia, @ MTV’s 10th Anniversary celebration with members of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. The performance, from 1991, is included on REMTV, the 6-DVD retrospective set, due out November 24 on Rhino Records.
Having seen Big Star THIRD a few times now, I can safely say it has probably never been performed more brilliantly than Saturday night in downtown Athens. The whole night was transcendent with more than two hours of music, dozens of musicians (spanning about 5 decades of age and
Diffuser.fm has an excellent article at their site on “R.E.M. By MTV.” Read it here.
Several screenings of the new R.E.M. By MTV documentary are set for
Tuesday, November 18th @ 7:00 p.m. The Alexander Young directed documentary will show in the following cities:
ATLANTA, GA: @ the Midtown Art Cinema
BOSTON, MA: @ the Kendall Square Cinema
CHICAGO, IL: @ Landmark’s Century Centre Cinema
LOS ANGELES, CA:
Check Out This Fascinating Article on Uberlin Written by Comparative Literature Professor Katarzyna Jerzak Published in the New Haven Review.
Watch the Video for Uberlin here.