By Aidin Vaziri
03.22.98
San Francisco Chronicle
With R.E.M. wrapping up work on its 11th album at San Francisco’s Toast Studios, Peter Buck and Barrett Martin are promoting their other project, Tuatara, a Seattle-based instrumental collective that includes Scott McCaughey of the Young Fresh Fellows, Justin Harwood of Luna, Steve Berlin of Los Lobos and Skerik of Critters [...]
By Wayne Ford
03.18.98
Athens Daily News
Nationally known rock musician Michael Stipe of R.E.M. has joined the Moore’s Ford Memorial Committee as a member of its honorary board of directors.
And so has U.S. Rep. John Lewis, a longtime civil rights advocate.
Stipe and Lewis are among the prominent people on the national, state and local level who have [...]
By Gil Kaufman
03.12.98
Sonicnet
R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck said the Georgia trio is doing so much experimenting on its new, still-untitled album that some days even he can’t recognize the sound of the pioneering supergroup.
“You can’t really tell it’s us on most of the songs,” Buck said in an interview to promote an upcoming album by the [...]
By Aidin Vaziri
03.11.98
Allstar
“We’re not purists in any way,” Peter Buck says of his other band, Tuatara, and their hodge-podge style, while taking a break from working on R.E.M.’s next record in San Francisco with Barrett Martin (Screaming Trees) and Scott McCaughey (Young Fresh Fellows, Minus 5). “No one has come up with a word to [...]