Daniel Pearl World Music Days was created in response to the 2002 kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl at the hands of extremists in Karachi, Pakistan. Danny’s family and friends came together to work towards a more humane world, forming the Daniel Pearl Foundation. The mission
Tired Pony was on the Late Show with David Letterman last night performing “All Things All at Once” from their latest album, The Ghost of the Mountain. Watch the clip here.
Tired Pony’s New Album The Ghost of the Mountain (Out October 1 in N. America) is featured at New York Time’s Press Play… Listen to songs from the new record here.
Tired Pony will play an intimate one-off acoustic show at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe in New York City on September 25th.
The show will feature Tired Pony members Gary Lightbody (Snow Patrol), Peter Buck (R.E.M), Scott McCaughey (The Minus 5) and Troy Stewart (The Windsor Player) performing songs from their new
Two years ago today, on September 21, 2011, Mike, Peter and Michael made the announcement, from sort of outtatheblue, that they had decided to “call it a day” and that R.E.M. would cease to exist in the active, record-making, touring together, making music mode of the past three decades.
Check out this article at the WSJ which brings together haute couture and R.E.M. music:
I just spent a couple of days in favorite city London for the Tired Pony show–Peter Buck, Scott McCaughey and Jacknife Lee joining ringleader Gary Lightbody and many others for the group’s only European show in support of the brilliant new Ghost Of The Mountain record, and their first show
As many of you will recall, Michael recently guest-designed the latest issue of Zoetrope: All Story magazine (see main banner on remhq.com). We’re excited to report that R.E.M. fans can now get an exclusive discount of 25% OFF a subscription to Zoetrope magazine. If interested, simply
From REM Timeline’s Facebook Page:
The first and only European Tired Pony show was a real treat,
with Gary Lightbody leading a band that sprawled across the stage, starting off with a shimmering ‘I Don’t Want You As A Ghost’, before having guest turns on backing vocals starting with Bronagh Gallagher notably
R.E.M.’s song “Orange Crush” is on the soundtrack for THE INTERNET MUST GO, a short satirical film by Gena Konstantinakos. The film was released today to coincide with oral arguments in Verizon’s lawsuit to remove open Internet protections. The short online mockumentary, designed to be shared using social media,
Lifes Rich Pageant has made the grade in Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Top 100 Albums of 1986, coming in at #3 in part 7 of the music site’s ongoing series of rating the best albums, by year, of the ’80s. LRP was inched out by The Smiths seminal album The Queen
Peter Buck and Patterson Hood of the Drive-By Truckers got together recently to write a song inspired by Brent Hendricks’s memoir A Long Day at the End of the World. The book, about the mass corpse desecration at the Tri-State Crematory in Noble, Georgia, in 2002, “captures the feeling
Check out Tired Pony’s “I Don’t Want You as a Ghost” which is streaming at rollingstone.com! Click here to listen.