As the tour to support “Accelerate” approaches, Peter Buck has started to puff out his chest because, as he puts it, he finally got his way. I always complained and I always suggested that we work quicker and more spontaneously. […]
Kathleen O’Brien Layson has a birthday today. I have no idea how old she is. I have never met her. But the party she threw for herself in 1980 – when I was 11 years old – changed the face […]
Thanks to my obsession with R.E.M., Accelerate‘s tidy running time of around 40 minutes and the fact I heard it for free a week before its official release on iLike, I have listened to the new album more than a […]
R.E.M. hits the road tonight. The tour to support Accelerate, which does not come out for a few more weeks, opens tonight at the Langerado Festival in Florida. Big geek that I am, I will troll the Web tonight looking […]
Did you look at the R.E.M. tour schedule and feel sad because they won’t come close to your city? Fear not – NPR has come to the rescue. The band’s March 12 show at the South by Southwest Festival will […]
With less than 50 days until Accelerate comes out, I find myself pretty much unable to contain my excitement. The first single, “Supernatural Superserious” is pretty cool, and you can buy it at iTunes. The band has also set up […]
Little by little, R.E.M.’s new album Accelerate comes into view. First, we had the Dublin rehearsals. For almost 40 days, we have had the clips at Ninety Nights. Before this week, we had heard a clip of “Supernatural Superserious” and […]
So what are you doing on June 11? I’ll be at Meriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Md., watching R.E.M. on tour. The band announced tour dates and the Meriweather show is the closest to me. They classify it as their […]
I was going to post this Friday, then the Monte Carlo fire happened and I got distracted. So you get an end of the week post on Monday. I like the way the new album is coming into focus piece […]