Wall Of Sound Mark Eitzel and Peter Buck just can’t seem to get enough of one another. After releasing and touring for Eitzel’s West, the duo has reunited in Seattle, where they’re spending this week writing material for another album. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Eitzel and Buck have also set aside time for [...]
By Bob Gulla Guitar Magazine On leave from his band of 17 years, Peter Buck flexes his talents with Mark Eitzel, Tuatara, and Minus 5. “When I was a teenager, the only time you heard about a rock musician in the news was when he either got arrested or died,” says Peter Buck. “Now there’s [...]
Review of It Crawled From The South By Brett Milano Boston Phoenix Does anybody really care that R.E.M. performed a cover version of the Swinging Blue Jeans’ “Hippy Hippy Shake” on October 4, 1981? Or that the band billed itself during some secret mid-’80s club gigs as “Adolf & the Casuals featuring Raoul”? Or that [...]
Mr. Showbiz R.E.M. bassist Mike Mills has signed a deal to compose the score for the upcoming film A Cool, Dry Place, and his band has agreed to write and record one new song for the film’s soundtrack. This is the first time the Grammy-winning group has attempted to write original material for a feature [...]
Allstar R.E.M. is doing something they’ve never done before. They’re writing a song specifically for a movie, and bassist Mike Mills is composing a score. The film is the Fox 2000 production A Cool, Dry Place starring Vince Vaughn (Swingers, Lost World) and Joey Lauren Adams (Chasing Amy), and directed by John M. Smith. The [...]
By c.e.k. POP-i Magazine If rock stars are going to do something with their free time, it might as well be this. Tuatara is made up of a Screaming Tree, a Luna, an REM and a guy named Skerik (cleverly described as “mono-named”), and it sounds like they emptied their garages of all manner of [...]