New This Is Not A Show Trailer by Bill Berg-HillingerR.E.M. | MySpace Video More News: Attention R.E.M. fans, the band will be presenting "This Is Not A Theatrical Release" at 8:00 p.m. at the Downtown Independent on 10/27/09. It's a one night only event, the preview of the unconcert documentary This Is Not A Show: Live at the Olympia in Dublin. In other words it is not the preview of a non-the...
A battering of music news - "You Just have to join in on this Song"- Strangeglue reports that reuniting Pavement has added shows down under in Australia and New Zealand in March 2010. Can European shows be in the cards for the summer festival season? - Built to Spill rocked (jammed?) NYC again last night - Brooklyn Vegan's got the goods. The band plays LettermanSexGod show this week. - I'm work...
R.E.M. HQ -- "This Is Not A Show, the concert documentary which chronicles R.E.M.'s five-night stand in Dublin, Ireland, in the summer of 2007, is now showing in select theaters in the USA and Europe this month and next." Read more...
MUSIC NEWS - R.E.M.'s upcoming concert documentary This Is Not A Show: Live at the Olympia in Dublin. will have some sneak preview screenings ! The 60-minute film, with concert and backstage footage shot at the Irish capital’s Olympia club by French filmmakers Vincent Moon and Jeremiah, will screen in movie theaters, rock clubs, college campuses, and other venues across the country throu
On Saturday October 10, The Times Magazine insert with the The Times newspaper will feature an iTunes gift card giving readers the chance to obtain an entire R.E.M. album on iTunes for free.The code provided on the gift card with Saturday's newspaper/ magazine initially gives access via timesonline.co.uk/rem to ten R.E.M. songs on iTunes (this site also features an interview with Michael Stipe ...
Peter Buck really loves that song. In fact, Buck really loves a lot of the songs on the new record. He uses the phrase no less than six times in his extensive liner notes to R.E.M.'s Live at the Olympia. Other times, he varies his writing with "really like" and "interesting to play" but after a few short lines, you've got the picture: This is something they loved doing.It's reflected in the pic...
R.E.M’s five-night stand at the Dublin Olympia back in 2007 was, let’s face it, astounding. The very fact that a band with seventy million plus album sales and a stellar worldwide following were playing such an intimate venue in the first place made it something special. Throw in a host of material that was –…
Michael Stipe and the boys of R.E.M. have released a new video, "Man-Sized Wreath" from their upcoming,double live album, entitled R.E.M. Live At The Olympia. The two-CD set, which hits stores on October 27th, is produced by Jacknife Lee, features 39 songs that capture the best moments from the band's 2007 "working rehearsals" at Dublin's fabled Olympia club where singer Michael Stipe, guitaris...
In perparation for their 2008 world tour, R.E.M. traveled to Dublin to stage a couple of tune up shows. Those "rehearsal" concerts will be released on October 27th as Live At The Olympia In Dublin.I had the opportunity to catch the band at their Toronto stop of the tour and I was not expecting what I got. I was a tad jaded going in, expecting to see a band that was a shell of their former
There's probably not a single R.E.M. fan in the world that would claim Monsteras their best or favorite record from the band. It may in fact be the worst record the band ever produced, but as awful as it is it did happen to be the first record from the band that I actually bought. Sure, I had heard all the hits along with everyone else in the early 90's and my parents owned a couple of the band...
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To kick off SXSW in style, I interviewed the whip-smart, calm & appropriately stripe-sleeved Michael Stipe.FYI: Surprise! I interspersed YOUR MOG QUESTIONS within the interview. (i.e. "Mogger Extraordinary Poems would like to know...") I'll be posting those in the next few weeks...Also as we wait for the April album release, I'm going to keep posting up longer clips of the whole interview...Til...
"Where's My Jet Pack?" - Ryan McGuinness So as promised- I've got a few more Michael Stipe videos for you to check out. (Kudos to my buddy Eric for dutifully editing...). (IF YOU ARE READING THIS ON THE MOG HOME PAGE, PLEASE USE THE LINK BELOW TO GET TO THE FULL POST WHERE YOU CAN VIEW THE VIDEOS.)In this segment, Michael unwinds over coffee, chatting about millennial themes behind R.E.M's new ...
Ever wonder what goes on in the mind of Mr. Stipe? Well I've got another clip here from the interview with Michael Stipe during SXSW where Michael Stipe talks about his dreamworld and the song "Sing For The Submarine." Since Accelerate was just released April 1st, it's pretty interesting insight.{PLEASE LINK TO FULL POST TO SEE VIDEO}The beginning of the interview, Michael's eye kinda drift off...
Michael Stipe isn't exactly camera shy. To see what I mean check out his doe-eyed mug on "indiepixie's post.":http://mog.com/indiepixie/blog_post/154132Stipe and the rest of R.E.M. will now release the 192 page book R.E.M. HELLO consisting of pictures taken by Seattle-based photographer "David Belisle":http://www.davidbelisle.com/ on June 1st. Of the 192 pages, 175 of them are color and black &...