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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
By John Bitzer 06.19.98 Allstar When R.E.M. singer Michael Stipe agreed to co-produce the film version of the controversial Bret Easton Ellis novel, American Psycho, set to star Leonardo DiCaprio, he may not have been prepared for a bit of controversy aimed at himself. This past weekend (June 13-14), backstage at the Tibetan Freedom Concert, [...]
06.16.98 Athens Daily News Members of Athens-based rock band R.E.M. were among the musicians and politicians rallying on the steps of the Capitol Monday to protest President Clinton’s human rights diplomacy with China. Monday’s rally attracted more than 2,000 people, and featured brief performances by R.E.M., Radiohead, Sean Lennon and Perry Farrell of Porno for [...]
By Erik Flannigan 06.12.98 Wall Of Sound Singer Michael Stipe took time off in late April during recording sessions for R.E.M.’s forthcoming album to record the title track for Happiness, the new film by Welcome to the Dollhouse director Todd Solondz. The solo recording, while certainly not the first such venture for Stipe, is still [...]
By Cat Mantione Holmes 06.12.98 Athens Daily News The last time a crowd this big assembled for a benefit concert, R.E.M.’s “Don’t Go Back to Rockville” was an underground, college radio favorite and the band’s biggest hit, “Losing My Religion,” was just a twinkle in R.E.M.’s collective eye. This weekend, the Tibetan Freedom Concert will [...]