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.
R.E.M.’s involvement in local [...]
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.
R.E.M.’s involvement in local [...]
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 theories have been put [...]
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 surroundings (priced upwards of [...]