By Gil Kaufman
06.25.98
Sonicnet
Seated at a microphone in a tent backstage at the Tibetan Freedom Concert at Washington, D.C.’s RFK Stadium, R.E.M.’s outspoken frontman Michael Stipe and the more reserved bassist Mike Mills were trying to explain the group’s new, ambient sound.
The group had just played — for the first time live — four new songs, [...]
By Kenan Pollack
06.23.98
Buckinvestor.com
Step back to the year 1981. Ronald Reagan has just taken office in January. Two months later, he will be wounded during an assassination attempt by John Hinckley, Jr. outside the Washington Hilton in the nation’s capital. NASA’s Space Shuttle program will take its maiden orbital flight when Columbia is launched in April. [...]
By Carl VP Groome
06.23.98
Allstar
Rating: 7/10
It’s the second trip to the well of post-mod instrumentals and this hodgepodge side project crew (R.E.M.’s Peter Buck, Screaming Trees’ Barrett Martin, et al) has already done the ethnic forgery series. Okay, here’s the encore: the enemy they’ve been trading with is Prog Rock. But not super- dexterous flashy solos [...]
06.21.98
Detroit Free Press
Last weekend’s Tibetan Freedom Concert was more than a chance to catch a bunch of important bands doing their stuff. It was a chance to catch a bunch of important bands doing their new stuff.
It was a weekend of firsts. The two-day festival at RFK Stadium featured some of the biggest acts in [...]