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A band who’s been around as long as R.E.M. will inevitable be asked, “When are you going to give it up?” Guitarist Peter Buck’s answer is maybe next year, maybe never. Buck says it depends on the day: sometimes he thinks it’ll last another year, and sometimes he thinks he’ll be doing it when he’s 70. “Right now I’m thinking it could last for a while. But I also sometimes wake up at 4 in the morning in a hotel and I can’t sleep and I haven’t seen my family in a couple of weeks and I just think, ‘Ya… Read more »

R.E.M. made unique chart history today with “In Time: The Best Of R.E.M. 1988-2003” debuting at #8 and #16 on the Billboard Top 200 chart, the first time the same album debuts twice in the Top 20 in the same week. Released on October 28th, “In Time” is for sale as both a single compact disc and double CD featuring the same initial piece and a second disc with rarities and b-sides compiled by the band. The albums scanned 75,560 units and 51,163 units respectively with a cumulative total of 126,723 units according to Nielsen Soundscan which would put the… Read more »

R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck is a bit miffed that the group’s newer music doesn’t get much air time. “We do really good work, and I hate to brag but our records are better than most people’s records,” Buck told reporters. “So sometimes it kind of hurts my feelings when I see a record that is obviously a piece of garbage, and everyone knows its garbage, and the guy can’t sing, and then we put out a really good record and they don’t put it on the radio because it doesn’t fit the formats.” R.E.M. is releasing a greatest hits album… Read more »

The video for R.E.M.’s new song “Bad Day” will premiere Friday at 7 p.m. ET on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” show. In the Tim Hope-directed clip, group members Michael Stipe, Peter Buck and Mike Mills appear as newscasters. The track is drawn from R.E.M.’s upcoming hits collection, “In Time,” due Oct. 28 via Warner Bros. It can also be viewed on a new R.E.M. Web site, Morningteam.com (http://www.morningteam.com). “Literally, it’s about a series of small weather hitting a city – in other words, people have hurricanes in their living room, or monsoons just in one room of their house,” Mills… Read more »

R.E.M. beings its six-week North American tour on Friday (August 29) at Thunderbird Stadium in Vancouver-where the trio has been working on its next studio album. The new tour is not supporting a particular album, since the group’s next release, In Time: The Best Of R.E.M., 1988-2003, doesn’t come out until October 28. But bassist Mike Mills revealed that the group doesn’t feel like it has to have a specific reason to tour. “I don’t often think about tours as supporting albums, although the next one we do will,” Mills said. “This one, it’s touring around the Best Of, so… Read more »

Need a reason to go on a road trip? How about Bumbershoot? No, we’re not talking gibberish – we’re referring to the infamous Bumbershoot Festival in Seattle, WA, which is taking place at the Seattle Center from August 29 to September 1 this year. From 11 a.m. until 11 p.m. each day, over 2,500 artists will be showcasing their various artistic and musical talents. The festival, which was originally dubbed “The Festival of ’71,” has been gaining momentum since its initial inception over three decades ago. Bumbershoot Festival-goers can enjoy poetry, comedy, acrobats, theatre, graphic art, film, painting, sculpture and… Read more »

Veteran modern rock act R.E.M. has made a few changes in its fall North American tour. The group, which kicked off its first world tour in four years June 21 in Utrecht, Holland, has added two dates and altered city and/or venue details for a handful of others on the North American leg of the outing, which will now get underway Aug. 29 in Vancouver. That date and an Aug. 31 show in Missoula, Mont., both with Wilco opening, have been added to the itinerary. Among the other changes: a Sept. 28 show slated for Auburn Hills, Mich., will now… Read more »

R.E.M. have set an October 28th release date for their second compilation, In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003. The collection will feature two new tracks, “Bad Day” and “Animal.” The former will also be released as the album’s first single; the band shot a video for the track last month in Vancouver. The compilation will be released on the heels of the first leg of R.E.M.’s world tour, which launched last Saturday in Holland. North American dates for the tour, the band’s first in four years, will begin August 29th in Vancouver, British Columbia, and several dates have been… Read more »

R.E.M. has posted video footage of the band rehearsing for their current world tour on their official website, remhq.com. The video was recently shot at the band’s studios in Vancouver, British Columbia. Those who visit remhq.com will be able to see R.E.M. perform four songs, including “She Just Wants To Be,” “Walk Unafraid,” “Get Up,” and “Maps And Legends”-which dates back to the band’s third album, 1985’s Fables And Reconstruction. R.E.M. is currently touring in Europe. The North American leg begins August 29 in Vancouver.

R.E.M. is in the midst of preparations for its upcoming world tour, and according to a post by frontman Michael Stipe on the group’s official Web site (http://www.remhq.com), the band has already rehearsed 70 songs. The tour starts June 27 at the U.K.’s Glastonbury Festival and will wrap Oct. 11 in Atlanta, about 70 miles west of the group’s Athens, Ga., homebase. R.E.M. is working with new drummer Bill Rieflin, an industrial/metal stickman who has manned the kit for the likes of Ministry, KMFDM, and Nine Inch Nails. R.E.M.’s three original members – Stipe, bassist Mike Mills, and guitarist Peter… Read more »