By Michael Fleming 09.23.99 Variety With its “Being John Malkovich” ready to open after an upbeat reception at the Venice Film Fest, Single Cell Pictures – the film company hatched by R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe – is ready to move forward with “Thirteen Conversations About One Thing,” a project Stipe hopes will take root at [...]
By Scott McLennan 09.13.99 Worcester Telegram & Gazette And in the end, brains won. It was the last night of the R.E.M tour; the last night of the summer concert series at the Tweeter Center; and an event billed as the millennium-ending show at the venue originally called Great Woods. The band’s two-and-a-half-hour concert Saturday [...]
By Sarah Rodman 09.13.99 Boston Herald R.E.M. closed out its summer tour Saturday night with a bang. And a crash. And a clatter. And some feedback. Early in the two-hour show, wiggly lead singer Michael Stipe warned that the group might feel a little melancholy on this last night. But by the time they reached [...]
By Carrie Borzillo 09.13.99 Allstar In an effort to spend more time on record producing, Joey Waronker, who’s been doing double duty for Beck and R.E.M., has decided to narrow down his drumming work to R.E.M. “Joey has decided to dedicate the next year to becoming a full-time record producer and in order to be [...]
By Richard Harrington 09.11.99 Washington Post At the close of the penultimate concert of its first tour in four years–and its first since the departure of original drummer Bill Berry–R.E.M. launched into “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine).” That sentiment seemed appropriate to the venture as a [...]
By Sarah Rodman 09.10.99 Boston Herald R.E.M. is in an enviable position. For almost 20 years, the band from Athens, Ga., has been making exactly the kind of music it wanted to make, whether it was idiosyncratic and remote or commercial and accessible. For several years in the ’90s, that style intersected with American tastes. [...]
By J.D. Considine 09.09.99 Baltimore Sun Other rock bands may go on tour to drum up interest in their current album, but not R.E.M. These alt rock legends didn’t even hit the road in support of their most popular album, 1991′s “Out of Time.” For them, roadwork is not business as usual. So why is [...]
09.09.99 Albany Times Union The summer of ’99 will probably go down in pop music history for the emergence of the metal-rap hybrid of Limp Bizkit, Korn and Kid Rock. Or maybe it’ll be remembered for the sugary sweet teen pop of the Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears and ‘N Sync. Either way, the thinking person’s [...]
By John English 09.08.99 Flagpole Magazine As a critic, I detest both gushy hype and contrariness for its own sake. I was dismayed with all four Flagpole “critics” [Four Reviews Of R.E.M.'s Up, October 21, 1998], who opined that R.E.M.’s latest release was not “Up” to the standards of earlier work. I agreed with Philadelphia [...]
By Melissa Link 09.08.99 Flagpole Magazine An hour and a half before Olivia Tremor Control was scheduled to open for R.E.M. at Chastain Park Tuesday night August 31, R.E.M.’s products manager Kevin O’Neil sat slump-shouldered in a folding chair outside the venue’s will-call entrance. “We’ve had over 2500 people on the guest list,” he said, [...]