By Tom Lasseter 07.25.99 San Jose Mercury News A grass-roots campaign against a local hospital’s plan to expand into surrounding neighborhoods has all the hallmarks of civic activism that this college town is known for: yard signs, petitions, meetings, protests and, of course, the support of one of the world’s most successful rock bands, R.E.M. [...]
By Tom Lasseter 07.25.99 New York Times A grass-roots campaign against a local hospital’s plan to expand into surrounding neighborhoods here has all the hallmarks of civic activism that this college town is known for: yard signs, petitions, meetings, protests and, of course, the support of one of the world’s most successful rock bands, R.E.M. [...]
By Stuart Clark 07.23.99 Hot Press The band were adamant. They’d do a few promo shows to coincide with Up’s release, but other than that they weren’t going back on the road again. Eight months later and REM are locked into a world tour that’s likely to have them eating hotel grub until September. Numerous [...]
By Peter Murphy 07.23.99 Hot Press (I) Daysleeper From one R.E.M.-state into another. It’s the tremulously tender hour of 11.59 am in the Loews Hotel Vogue, 1425 de la Montagne, downtown Montreal, when Michael Stipe is surprised awake by an Irish journalist seeking an interview. Through the smog of jet-lag, the singer blearily surveys his [...]