Mike Mills Tribute

UPDATE: Here’s another great video interview with Mike, courtesy of 101.9 RXP Radio. Thanks Conni for the heads-up! ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ As you may remember, a few weeks ago we posted a teaser snippet of Mike Mills’s interview with Streetdate Radio. And today they have posted all video [...]

Don’t y’all love this title? I certainly love days like this when I can post several Mike Mills-related news at once. Let’s start with the final part of the interview from Italian Rolling Stone; it was published online and our own Dol has already translated it! I have merged it with her previous translation, so [...]

Hello friends! Lots of news today! First up, here’s Michael Stipe on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon – he was there to promote R.E.M.’s new album Collapse Into Now and to announce the Tibet House Benefit concert. Wow, he’s hilarious! Part 1 Part 2 Also, here’s Michael performing beautiful intimate versions of two R.E.M. songs [...]

Here’s a cool new interview with Mike Mills, published by The West Australian. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ By Simon Collins For R.E.M. fans, it could be the end of the world as they know it. The alternative rock veterans’ latest album, Collapse Into Now, is their final release with [...]

Here’s a brand new interview, courtesy of Rolling Stone. Yesterday Michael Stipe performed at the Tibet House benefit concert in New York, together with Patti Smith’s band and a host of other friends. Michael sang “Every Day Is Yours To Win”, one of the ballads from R.E.M.’s latest album Collapse Into Now. Before the gig, [...]

The brand new video for R.E.M.’s fantastic new single “Uberlin” was released today via several media outlets (all listed here). Alas, the video is rubbish; now, I admit that I am visually retarded and not particularly interested in films and visual art(s), but this particular video sucks for at least three reasons: 1) it does [...]

UPDATE 2: In case you haven’t heard Collapse Into Now yet, NPR is streaming the entire album here! UPDATE: Comments are open now, so feel free to share your impressions with fellow fans! No censorship here, all opinions are accepted. Listen to R.E.M.’s new album Collapse Into Now here! The comments thread will be closed [...]

Hello friends! The wacky title will start to make sense as soon as you have read the new interview with Mike Mills (and Michael Stipe), published in the latest issue of Italian Rolling Stone. Our friend Dol has translated the introduction and Mike’s Q&A, while the Stipe portion of the interview was quite dull, practically [...]

Look at me eating my own words – a few weeks ago I was quite convinced that “Mine Smell Like Honey” was not a very good song. However, R.E.M. have just released the live video – another one from the batch of videos filmed at the Hansa Studio in Berlin last summer – and it [...]

In just a few days we’ll be able to finally hear R.E.M.’s fifteenth album Collapse Into Now in its entirety! The release dates are different – some countries will be getting the album on the 4th March, some a few days later; and those who have a premium subscription for Spotify will be able to [...]