Kathleen O’Brien Layson has a birthday today. I have no idea how old she is. I have never met her. But the party she threw for herself in 1980 – when I was 11 years old – changed the face of rock history. KO, as her friends called her, convinced four friends of hers to […]
Thanks to my obsession with R.E.M., Accelerate‘s tidy running time of around 40 minutes and the fact I heard it for free a week before its official release on iLike, I have listened to the new album more than a few times. Here are a few completely and utterly biased thoughts. As a big fan […]
R.E.M. hits the road tonight. The tour to support Accelerate, which does not come out for a few more weeks, opens tonight at the Langerado Festival in Florida. Big geek that I am, I will troll the Web tonight looking for a set list. I also hope some good folks are out there taping the […]
Did you look at the R.E.M. tour schedule and feel sad because they won’t come close to your city? Fear not – NPR has come to the rescue. The band’s March 12 show at the South by Southwest Festival will be broadcast and webcast on NPR. The show may also be podcast for future listening. […]
With less than 50 days until Accelerate comes out, I find myself pretty much unable to contain my excitement. The first single, “Supernatural Superserious” is pretty cool, and you can buy it at iTunes. The band has also set up a site where you can see the raw footage from the song’s video shoot. You […]
I can think of a lot of strange ways to spend a Sunday morning, but I think I topped them all last week. I didn’t intend to get up early and go see the Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus concert movie with Bridget, but I also didn’t expect the movie to sell out multiple shows before I […]
Little by little, R.E.M.’s new album Accelerate comes into view. First, we had the Dublin rehearsals. For almost 40 days, we have had the clips at Ninety Nights. Before this week, we had heard a clip of “Supernatural Superserious” and seen a clip about the making of the video for the song. Now you can […]
So what are you doing on June 11? I’ll be at Meriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Md., watching R.E.M. on tour. The band announced tour dates and the Meriweather show is the closest to me. They classify it as their Washington, D.C., stop, but Columbia is closer to Baltimore. Doesn’t matter to me. I saw […]
I was going to post this Friday, then the Monte Carlo fire happened and I got distracted. So you get an end of the week post on Monday. I like the way the new album is coming into focus piece by piece. If you haven’t visited the Ninety Nights website, go check it out. The […]