R.E.M. plays their penultimate show on the North American tour at NYC’s Madison Square Garden tonight after another barnburner at the Mann Center in Philadelphia Wednesday (read review). On Saturday, the band returns “home” for the final North American show at Lakewood Amphitheatre in Atlanta, just down
Check out Peter’s recent interview with Gordon Lamb of Flagpole right HERE.
The Colbert Report will re-air the band’s “extra” performance of Hollow Man tonight at 11:35PM ET. If you can’t make it then, then check it out here and visit their web site for more information:
We all have a little Fathers Day break to rest up for the Big Week ahead–the mad dash through North America is almost over with shows later this week in Philadelphia, New York and Atlanta. Peter and Scott go on Letterman tonight with the Steve Wynn-led Baseball
You can now check out Peter’s Out of the Box interview with Jonathan Clarke of Q104.3 HERE.
The Colbert Report will air R.E.M.’s performance of Hollow Man tonight at 11:30PM ET. When R.E.M. was on the Colbert Report the week of the release of ACCELERATE the guys performed both lead single Supernatural Superserious and Hollow Man (which had just been designated as the second single)…there
The band went onstage at 10:15 tonight, almost an hour later than scheduled due to a pretty intense storm that rolled in off the water toward the end of Modest Mouse’s set. Most of the crowd seems to have stayed around and there appears to be some topical
Peter joins Out of the Box (Q104.3) host Jonathan Clarke live tonight to talk about and play songs from ACCELERATE at 9PM ET. Click HERE to listen to the show and for an opportunity to win a copy and a pair
The band returns to New York’s Jones Beach in Wantagh, the “Gateway to Jones Beach,” this evening for what promises to be another strong outing in a string of shows that sees R.E.M. going from strength to strength night in, night out.
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Be sure to tune in to Sirius Stars channel 102 tonight at 6:00pm ET as Jane Pratt, host of Jane Radio, talks with R.E.M. Jane was recently with the band in Berkeley prior to their concert at the Greek Theatre where she and Peter, Mike, and Michael discussed a
R.E.M. has five shows remaining on the North American leg of their world including two big ones this weekend at the Tweeter Center outside of Boston in Mansfield, MA, tonight, followed by a Saturday night show at Jones Beach in Wantagh, NY. Next week: Philly at the Mann
Last night’s show at Merriweather Post Pavilion between Baltimore and Washington was to me the highlight of the tour so far: great set (4 or 5 songs not yet played on this tour, and it is only in its 3rd week), massive and exhuberant crowd,
This is sort of “old home week” week on the east coast of America:
-Last night Raleigh and friends from last year all the way back to Carrboro and Kernersville and Chapel Hill and Raleigh, including most notably Mitch Easter and Don Dixon. We figured out before the show that the