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PETER & GARY LIGHTBODY TALK TIRED PONY WITH BBC NEWSBEAT


Check out this interview Peter and Gary Lightbody did with BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat earlier today and have a look at Tired Pony’s performance of “Dead American Writers” at the HMV Forum in London on July 14th:

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TIRED PONY ROUNDUP (Update)


Lots of Tired Pony happenings this week with the release of their debut album The Place We Ran From on Monday, a highly-anticipated sold-out performance tonight at the Forum in London, press rounds with radio and TV appearances all week, and a new single, Dead American Writers all

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MIDSUMMER UPDATE: STUDIO WRAP, FABLES REISSUE, TIRED PONY, AND MORE…


The band has completed the third phase of recording their next record at Hansa Studio in Berlin with Jacknife Lee and will now set about mixing it at some point this Fall. Though we don’t have a definitive date, all signs are pointing towards a Spring 2011 release of

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LISTEN TO THROW THOSE TROLLS AWAY FROM FABLES DEMOS


Listen to a stream of Throw Those Trolls Away, one of the 14 tracks on the Bonus CD (“The Athens Demos”) of the forthcoming Fables Of The Reconstruction 25th Anniversary Edition reissue by clicking here. The Fables anniversary edition hits stores and online outlets outside the USA

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R.E.M.’S 1985 ROCKPALAST CONCERT TO SCREEN AT CINE JULY 13TH


In honor of the 25th anniversary release of Fables of the Reconstruction on July 13, 2010, Cine, the Athens art-house cinema, will screen a special showing of a 25-song concert that the band performed in Germany on October 2, 1985 for the Rockpalast live German television music show. The concert

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QUICK POSTCARD FROM BERLIN


Really great to be here on many levels– one of the world’s great cities and only being here a little while (like anywhere) really lets one get a sense of what the town is really like– neighborhoods, people, customs and traditions, how people live and work and play here, not

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4TH OF JULY WEEKEND UPDATE


As we get ready to head into the Independence Day weekend here in the States, we wanted to wish all of you who celebrate it a happy 4th of July.

Now the news…

BERLIN NEWS

The band continues to record in Berlin with Jacknife Lee and by all accounts, things are

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BRATWURST


Peter and Bill pic by Michael; back stage at Pearl Jam, the Berlin influence finds itself settling in

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PETER KICKS OUT THE JAMS WITH PEARL JAM


Peter and Scott McCaughey joined Pearl Jam at Wuhlheide Park for a rousing take on the motor city classic, “Kick Out the Jams” by the MC5 tonight. Photos by Dewitt Burton.

THE BASEBALL PROJECT AND MINUS FIVE ANNOUNCE AUGUST DATES


The Baseball Project and The Minus Five have announced two shows this August. You can catch them on Thursday, August 12 in Brooklyn, NY at Southpaw and on Saturday, August 14 in North Adams, MA at the Solid Sound Festival. According to Scott McCaughey, the lineup for these two

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POSTCARD FROM BERLIN


. . . . a city where we have always enjoyed whistle-stopping through, and now we’re here long enough to work on R.E.M.’s next record. Berlin is a pulsing, exciting city with so many varied and distinctive neighborhoods, iconic history all around, great food at all levels and

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PETER AND THE DECEMBERISTS


Earlier in June, Peter joined the Decemberists for a day’s work in a converted barn outside Portland, Oregon. Peter appeared on three songs, which are slated to appear on the group’s next Capitol album, due in February. Singer-songwriter Colin Meloy acknowledged R.E.M. as being an inspiration