Mike Mills Tribute

As promised, I’ve scanned the two-page feature from the latest issue of Q Magazine – apologies for the delay! Peter Buck and Mike Mills discuss R.E.M.’s upcoming 15th album Collapse Into Now and reveal what individual songs are all about. Click on the thumbnails below to view the high-res scans, which have also been added [...]

This one goes out to Charky, but also to all Mike Mills-cum-R.E.M. fans out there. As all of you who read this blog already know, Mike wrote the song “Gift Of The Fathers” in honour of the baseball legend Roberto Clemente and premiered live in December 2007 at the FMC Hope For Home fundraiser show. [...]

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 [...]

No news lately, so I thought I should entertain you with more vintage R.E.M. videos uploaded by my Youtube pal PeterBuckRocks. The first, unfortunately incomplete but still cool clip dates from 1983, shortly after the release of the band’s legendary first LP Murmur. The chatty duo of Peter Buck and Mike Mills were invited to [...]

Awesome news today folks – R.E.M.’s 15th album has finally been baptised. According to BBC via Twitter, the album is called Collapse Into Now. Cool title imo, very old-skool R.E.M. Let’s just hope the rest of the record is equally old-skool! According to several blogs, Collapse Into Now will be released sometime in Spring 2011, [...]

As y’all know, R.E.M.’s Mike Mills and Bertis Downs have been involved with the Future of Music Coalition for several years now, and a few days ago they attended the FMC’s Tenth Annual Policy Summit in Washington DC. Bertis Downs has published his own report, and two additional reports can be found here (Washington City [...]

Here’s a nice treat for all R.E.M. fans. One of my friends @ Youtube, who goes by the name of PeterBuckRocks, has a cool stash of rare old videos of Mr. Peter Buck, Mr. Mike Mills and the rest of the band. Since the channel is rather new, very few people have seen the vids, [...]

Hello friends – long time no see! Alas, even the most ardent bloggers sometimes have to take a break, in order to deal with real-life challenges and commitments. Anyway I’m back, and I’ve just updated the Interviews – Audio page with some old/new interviews. Happy download! As for recent news, I expect y’all know that [...]

Hiya, I’m back on duty after a brief hiatus filled with moving house, completing my PhD thesis and whatnot. Anyway, here’s a brief recap of all the exciting events of the past few days; more updates to follow. First of all, The Baseball Project (i.e. Scott McCaughey, Steve Wynn, Linda Pitmon and Mike Mills in [...]

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 [...]