This coming Monday night will mark the return of the Minus 5 (Scott McCaughey’s evergreen stalwart unit with frequent co-conspirator Peter Buck and this-time co-collaborators Steve Wynn and Linda Pitmon. Supporting bands for this very special 40 WATT evening are The Baseball Project and the Steve Wynn IV. The show is getting great reviews up … Continue reading A FEW THINGS ON THE HQ RADAR SCREEN ON A GORGEOUS FALL FRIDAY IN ATHENSTOWN…
Category: R.E.M. Postcards Etc.
Postcard From Summertime – Athens 2009
For a non-touring/non-recording summer, things are somewhat lively at HQ, with the RECKONING 25th DELUXE EDITION re-issue, the RECKONING SONGS FROM THE OLYMPIA Digital EP and the upcoming LIVE AT THE OLYMPIA Double Live Record coming in October keeping us busy and on our toes. For the rest, please go here.
Postcard from the Tribute: All the Right Friends – 2009
I will leave it to others, perhaps more objective than me, to chronicle in detail the wonderful confluence of talent, place and material that took place last night in New York City’s fabled Carnegie Hall at the “Music of R.E.M.” tribute: For the rest, please go here.
Quick Postcard from Venezuela on the way to Mexico – 2008
Final stretch of a great year coming tomorrow night at the storied Auditorio Nacional, where some of us saw Coldplay on their last tour. Last night’s show outside Caracas was on the hillside campus of Simon Bolivar University and featured a raucous crowd for which the band put the rock back in Caracas . . … Continue reading Quick Postcard from Venezuela on the way to Mexico – 2008
Quick Postcard from Sao Paulo – 2008
The first week of the Obama administration has been our chance to really discover South America as we made our way from the celebratory spirit of Santiago, traversed through a nice stay in Porto Alegre, a short one in Rio de Janeiro, with rocking, boisterous shows in both cities, alighting here in Sao Paulo for … Continue reading Quick Postcard from Sao Paulo – 2008
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