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R.E.M.'s Peter Buck to Host Charity Music Festival

The members of the newly defunct R.E.M. have been adamant in asserting they will never reform and that the breakup is final, and singer Michael Stipe has even insisted he won't be releasing a solo album — but guitarist Peter Buck isn't ready to completely recede from the limelight yet.  read more

R.E.M. to Release Another Greatest Hits Album

Well, the bad news for R.E.M. fans came first, but as Consequence of Sound points out, they have at least one more release from the now-defunct band, and it looks like another greatest hits album. Amazon has a listing for an album called Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage: 1982-2011.   read more

The Baseball Project: Vol. 2: High and Inside

All-Star Band Swings for the Fences We’re still deep in the throes of winter here in the Midwest. Spring seems like an impossible dream. But for the members of The Baseball Project—major-league sports nerds from better-known bands Young Fresh Fellows, Dream Syndicate, R.E.M., and Golden Smog—Opening Day is just around the corner. Their second album, Vol. 2: High and Inside, picks up right where Vol. 1 left off, firing power chords like fastballs, and tossing in a few musical changeups to keep listeners off balance....  read more

The Decemberists' New Album Gets a Title, Release Date

The Decemberists will release the follow-up to 2009’s Hazards of Love early next year....  read more

Watch Tired Pony Play "Dead American Writers" on Letterman

Tired Pony jammed “Dead American Writers” from their latest album on The Late Show with David Letterman late last week....  read more

New Decemberists Album Coming in February?

Not too long ago, we told you that R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck would be collaborating with The Decemberists for their sixth album. Now, though the band’s publicist cannot confirm a release date for the album, R.E.M.‘s official website says Colin Meloy & Co.’s next record could drop as soon as February 2011....  read more

R.E.M.'s Peter Buck to Appear on Sixth Decemberists Album

The Decemberists are upholding their reputation for fostering great collaborations...  read more

R.E.M., Belle and Sebastian Members Contribute to Snow Patrol Side Project

Last year certainly had its fair share of supergroups, but 2010 is already making efforts to keep up. Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody has drafted quite a team of musicians for his latest side project, Tired Pony. The album, which Lightbody has described as “country-tinged” will feature R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck, Belle and Sebastian drummer Richard Coburn, Iain Archer and his wife, singer Miriam Kaufman, and producer Garret “Jacknife” Lee....  read more

Happy 50th Birthday, Michael Stipe!

[Photo by Rob Inderrieden] On Jan. 4, 1960, the oft-bald, occasionally blue-faced frontman of iconic alt-rock group R.E.M., née John Michael Stipe, was born in Decatur, Ga. (future home of another pillar of the music industry, as luck would have it). If the B-52s is one of the poppiest bands to emerge from the Athens, Ga. music scene to notoriety, and Neutral Milk Hotel one of the artsiest, R.E.M. is probably the closest thing to a happy medium between the two....  read more

Watch The Baseball Project Cover the Beatles With a Little Help From Bill Berry and Mike Mills

Baseball, the pass time of America, is a whole lot of fun. It's only fitting, then, that the Baseball Project, the pass time of some of America's finest rockers, is a total party. The Baseball Project is a comprised of Steve Wynn and Linda Pitmon of Steve Wynn and the Miracle 3, Scott McCaughey of Minus 5 and R.E.M.'s Peter Buck. The band was created around its members' undying love of, yes, baseball. One song on The Project's album Volume One: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails is even called "Ted Fucking Williams." ...  read more