03.30.99
MTV Online
Cuban president Fidel Castro personally met and chatted with over 40 American artists, including R.E.M.’s Peter Buck, actor Woody Harrelson, Montell Jordan, Duncan Sheik and Bonnie Raitt, at a reception Sunday night in Havana.
The rare meet-and-greet followed a sold-out concert at Havana’s Karl Marx Theatre that marked the end of a week-long musical exchange [...]
By Andrew Cawthorne
03.29.99
Wall Of Sound
If music and baseball had anything to do with it, the persistent Cold War-style hostilities between Cuba and the United States would have their days numbered.
Hours after the Baltimore Orioles became the first major league baseball team from the United States to play on Cuban soil in 40 years, musicians from [...]
By Ben Deck
03.27.99
Athens Daily News
R.E.M. promoters could have attracted a larger crowd Friday at the Georgia Theatre, where plastic bracelets that guarantee the wearer can buy up to four tickets to concerts in Atlanta were passed out.
But that wasn’t the point.
The offer was not announced until 4 p.m., an hour before the bracelets were made [...]
03.26.99
Zone 105 (radio)
Steve Nelson: Zone 105, good morning. Brian Oak and Steve Nelson joined on the line right now by R.E.M. bassist Mike Mills. Mike good morning how ya doing?
Mike Mills: I’m great. How are you?
SN: Doing great. Now you and the rest of your band R.E.M. are coming back to town August 21 and [...]