The third incarnation of Peter Buck’s creation, the Todos Santos Music festival, is off to a rocking start and could just turn out to be the best one ever . . . I am pretty sure it will. The sun is hot, the music amazing, the drinks are cold
Slane Castle, Ireland. July, 1995, (L-R): Tabitha Soren, Michael, Aidan Quinn, Johnny Depp.
Photo: Katherine Downs
Later that night, a lost classic, Try Not To Breathe.
A series of Document posters make up this week’s “Find of the Week”:
Happy Birthday wishes to Michael today!
Peter recently spoke to the Wall Street Journal about music, travel, and touring. Read the article here.
Odyssey Online, the news magazine of Clarke Central High School in Athens, has a great feature on Jim McKay’s recent film festival in the Classic City. The story includes interviews with Jim as well as Michael Stipe. Watch it here.
Paul Thomas is a professor of education at Furman University and a prolific thinker, scholar and blogger– his main blog is The Becoming Radical.
Here, he offers a tribute to some “Nightswimming,” along with Snow Patrol’s recent Belfast cover of that classic from AFTP…
Watch the following clip in which Michael is in on the fun and birthday wishes for Patti Smith at a recent performance at Webster Hall in NYC:
Snow Patrol performed a great cover version of R.E.M.’s “Nightswimming” in Belfast at an Alzheimer’s Research Benefit show on December 30th. Watch the video…
Mike will be in New York City for a New Year’s Day gig with Joseph Arthur at City Winery. Mike was recently on tour with Joseph for a series of shows that concluded on December 16th, so this promises to be a great one-off night.
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A classic lost in the mists of time–from a few years ago at The Pier in Raleigh:
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it happened today is here : http://youtu.be/ttg8mqT4vMA
Postcard from a fan: Reflections on the fan club
December comes now and its bittersweet to travel to the mailbox and not find an Xmas single from my favorite band R.E.M. As the weather got cold every year, I always looked forward to that
With the holiday season officially upon us now, we wanted to share a special personal reflection from a longtime R.E.M. supporter from Baltimore with a unique connection to the band and fan club. In the following, Adam Rosenberg, a member of R.E.M.’s fan club for many years, muses on the
Happy birthday wishes from all of us here!
This photo was taken by Chris Bilheimer of the exhibit he designed and installed to coincide with R.E.M.’s induction into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 2006.