UPDATE 2: Looks like all members of R.E.M. (sans Bill Rieflin) are currently in Austin, TX for the SXSW festival – Michael Stipe is screening the 12 music videos/art films for Collapse Into Now, Peter Buck and Scott McCaughey are playing shows with The Baseball Project, and Mike Mills is not the one to miss [...]

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14 March 2011

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Phew, what a weekend it was! While we were entertained by a certain Mr Michael Stipe in London, across the pond his R.E.M. bandmates rocked Georgia! Namely, The Baseball Project (Scott McCaughey, Peter Buck, Steve Wynn and Linda Pitmon) are currently touring the U.S. to promote their second album; over the weekend they played in [...]

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In honour of R.E.M.’s upcoming 30th anniversary, our archive has just been enriched with more interviews and photos of our favourite bassist. First of all, a huge thank you to Henry Race, who has sent me photos of Mike Mills taken on a few of the countless R.E.M. concerts he had attended. I’ve just uploaded [...]