Mike Mills Tribute

UPDATE: As our friend Auctioneer has noticed, my piano version of “Discoverer” is now featured on REMHQ.com!!! This is the second time I’ve been honoured like this, and I’m immensely grateful to the band and everyone at the headquarters, especially Mr David Bell! R.E.M. have been my musical heroes since I was 13, and this [...]

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 [...]

REMHQ reports that the band has practically finished recording their fifteenth studio album and will set about mixing it after the summer break. Of course the word “break” should not be understood literally, because Peter Buck is already busy promoting the new Tired Pony record The Place We Ran From, then a few weeks later [...]

REMHQ reports that The Baseball Project and Minus 5 have announced two shows this August: Thursday, 12 August 2010 in Brooklyn, NY at Southpaw Saturday, 14 August 2010 in North Adams, MA at the Solid Sound Festival The lineup for these shows will be Scott McCaughey, Steve Wynn, Linda Pitmon and Mike Mills, who will [...]

Apologies for the lack of updates in the last few days; it’s been a busy week. Anyway, I’ve just updated the Quotes and Quotes About Mike pages, and uploaded the first batch of scans from the R.E.M. Rolling Stone Files book, i.e. a compendium of interviews, articles and reviews published by the Rolling Stone and [...]