POET COLEMAN BARKS DISCUSSES RECORDING WITH TUATARA ON GPB SUNDAY NIGHT


Jeff Calder of The Swimming Pool Q’s interviews the poet Coleman Barks this Sunday August 9 at 8 PM on Georgia Public Broadcasting’s literary show Cover-to-Cover (including WUGA in Athens and other stations statewide). Barks is the internationally renowned translator of the Sufi poet Rumi. It’s a special

MILLS INTERVIEW ON BBC RADIO 2 TODAY


Mike’s interview with Mark Radcliffe airs on BBC Radio 2 tonight between 9-10PM (local time); the interview will be available beginning tomorrow in the BBC Radio 2 archive for a week…

DEAR HQ


One of the effects of the end of summer vacation is that one relishes reading all the leisure stuff possible–books, magazine, papers, the web. Well, these are my three favorite Opinion pieces I have come across here on the morning we head for home:

National Division: Frank Rich on the

GULF RESTORATION NETWORK NEEDS YOUR HELP ON AUGUST 29TH!


Can you believe it has been almost four years since Hurricane Katrina and then Rita rocked the Gulf Coast? One clear message in the wake of these storms is that New Orleans and South Louisiana need to have natural storm defenses, like wetlands, barrier islands and cypress swamps to

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PETER TO TOUR WITH MINUS 5, BASEBALL PROJECT, AND STEVE WYNN IV


Scott McCaughey reports that he and Peter will be hitting the road in August and September in support of The Minus 5’s latest record, Killingsworth, and (Scott added) fans are in for a real treat because it will actually be “Three bands in one!” also featuring The Baseball Project (check

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A RECKONING ROUNDUP: OLYMPIA LIVE IN THE FORECAST AND OTHER MISCELLANY…


As we approach the Independence Day holiday weekend here in the States, our thoughts can’t help but harken back (somewhat ironically) to Dublin where exactly two years ago, the band spent five nights at the venerable Olympia Theatre rehearsing new songs for what would eventually become ACCELERATE while also rolling

LISTEN TO HARBORCOAT FROM RECKONING SONGS FROM THE OLYMPIA


Click on the HARBORCOAT banner on the right hand side of the site to listen to the track from the forthcoming four-song digital E.P., RECKONING SONGS FROM THE OLYMPIA. The E.P. will be available on July 7th, but in the meantime you can pre-order your copy by clicking the large

RECKONING LINER NOTES AND REVIEWS


It has been brought to our attention that not all digital versions of the RECKONING DELUXE EDITION include a downloadable version of the album’s liner notes and art. To rectify this, we’re making them available HERE, so, if you’ve purchased a digital version and didn’t receive the

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LISTEN TUESDAY TO “DAY OF RECKONING” ON DAVE FM


Be sure to in to Atlanta’s Dave FM throughout the day today for “Day of Reckoning,” a special program composed in honor of the 25th anniversary of R.E.M.’s second album and in conjunction with the release of the Deluxe Edition. The program features interviews with Mike Mills who discusses

1984 R.E.M. RETROSPECTIVE AT CINE THIS WEEK


Athens is noting the release of the deluxe anniversary edition of Reckoning with a 30-minute retrospective of rare 1984-era video footage of interviews and live footage from the band’s archives. The collection is screening at Cine beginning on Tuesday, June 23 as one of the RockDocs film components of this