Mike Mills Tribute

While Michael Stipe is skipping his promotional duties again, Peter Buck and Mike Mills are soldiering on, talking to music press and trying to create positive buzz before the release of R.E.M.’s fifteenth full lenght album Collapse Into Now. Rolling Stone‘s resident R.E.M. fanboy David Fricke has just published excerpts from his conversations with Peter [...]

Now, this is what Elena and I call a cool birthday present! Warner Bros has just sent a press release and R.E.M. are set to premiere a brand new video for their new U.S. single “Mine Smell Like Honey” on 31 January 2011 – which happens to be our birthday, and also the first anniversary [...]

UPDATE 2: In case you haven’t heard “Uberlin” yet, you can now watch a brand new lyrics video, courtesy of Huffington Post! And here’s what the producer Jacknife Lee had to say about “Uberlin”: “I love this song. There’s a melancholy in it that only R.E.M. (can) articulate. The demo of the song was very [...]

As y’all know, R.E.M.’s fifteenth album Collapse Into Now won’t be released until Spring 2011, but looks like our hero Mike Mills has already stepped onto the publicity treadmill -yay! Here’s the latest feature from Rolling Stone – thanks Dol for the tip! ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ When R.E.M. [...]

Squeeeee!! I’m too excited to type right now, so I’ll just copy the entire feature from SPIN: ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ R.E.M. have finished their fifteenth studio album, called Collapse Into Now (due in early 2011) — so what can fans expect? According to multi-instrumentalist Mike Mills, a more [...]

Hello everyone! I’ve just returned from London, and as you may imagine, the first ever Tired Pony gig, staged to celebrate the release of their debut album The Place We Ran From, was a hugely successful happening. The beautiful HMV Forum in London was packed; I must admit that a majority of people in the [...]

While R.E.M. and their producer Jacknife Lee are busy in Berlin, working on the band’s as-yet-unnamed 15th album, the media hype machine is now focused on the upcoming 25th anniversary 2CD special edition of their fantastic third album, Fables of the Reconstruction, scheduled for release on 13 July. As y’all know, CD 1 will contain [...]

Many thanks to Charky for letting us know that Howard Libov’s award-winning independent feature film Favorite Son is now available for preorder on Amazon! As we have informed you previously, Mike Mills contributed his beautiful song “Gift of the Fathers” to the soundtrack. A live recording of this song (performed by The Baseball Project) can [...]

Good morning everyone! First things first, R.E.M. have announced that they just wrapped up the recording session for their 15th studio album in New Orleans at the Music Shed. They will be having another recording session this summer, and while the release date has not been set yet, it’ll probably be early 2011. Looks like [...]

At last! Messrs. Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe have just announced, via their official website that they have returned to the studio and resumed work on their next record with the producer Jacknife Lee and his team. Oh yeah! Hopefully they won’t keep us waiting for the next album for too long. To [...]