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R.E.M.: On Video, in Austin
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
R.E.M.: Peter Buck, Michael Stipe and Mike Mills.
Have you ever wanted to create a music video? How about trying your hand at cobbling together the new R.E.M. clip for “Supernatural Superserious,” the first single from the band’s forthcoming album, “Accelerate.”
Parisian director and video blogger Vincent Moon has put together his own clip, but he’s also uploaded much of the raw footage to R.E.M.’s official site. You can go there, download the bits and pieces and create your own remix of the video. If that’s more work than you want to do, just go see what other folks have done with the footage at YouTube.
“Accelerate” is out April 1.
In other R.E.M. news, the band will be playing at the annual South by Southwest music conference in Austin, Texas, on March 12. National Public Radio plans to broadcast the show over the airwaves and on the Web. NPR will begin the broadcast at 8 p.m., bringing listeners around the country the night’s entire line-up from Stubb’s Bar-B-Q, including another pair of Georgia bands, Dead Confederate and Summerbirds in the Cellar.
I plan to be there, too, blogging from Austin on the comings and goings of many of our Georgia artists. Besides the Stubb’s show, another highlight is sure to be R.E.M.’s taping of a performance for the PBS live music show “Austin City Limits.”
At last count, there were well over 30 Georgia bands and musicians playing around Austin March 12-16. I won’t be able to see them all, but I’ll try to hit the highlights and let you know how they fare in front of all the fans and music industry types gathered for the annual musical summit.
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By Kathy
March 12, 2008 3:58 AM | Link to this
Man, those guys look like the 3 grampaws! I’m so sick of old crap 80’s bands trying to be “cool” and “market” themselves to my generation by playing SXSW. Go back to your nursing home, guys! All your sh!t sounds the same, and it all sounds like, well, like the 80’s. It’s 2008!
By Andrew
March 12, 2008 4:04 AM | Link to this
Pete Buck looks like a coke head. Michael Stipe looks like a meth head. Mike Mills looks like a crack head. Bill Berry is looking like a pretty smart dude.
By R LM
March 12, 2008 5:02 AM | Link to this
Please check out Constellation and let me know how they did.
By George
March 12, 2008 5:56 AM | Link to this
While in Austin, check out a local group called Rotel and Red Hot Tomatoes. They really put on a show!
By Allibabba
March 12, 2008 7:57 AM | Link to this
Lets see Kathy is typing at 3:58 am and she is full of sh*t and for you Andrew you are typing at 4:04 am calling these guys out on drugs. Look in the mirrior (@4am) you bum.
By JLH
March 12, 2008 10:29 AM | Link to this
Andrew
You’ve got it wrong:
Mills is the cokehead.
Peter’s the resident alcoholic.
Michael’s just high on himself most of the time.
..and yeah, Bill was smart to jump ship before it sank into the Sea of Irrelevance.
By Mitch
March 12, 2008 11:58 AM | Link to this
Kathy and Andrew,
What venomous posts from the two of you! There are plenty of bands out there that I don’t like either, but as they say, “To each his/her own!” Maybe you just don’t understand why REM is so popular, but they are still pretty innovative. You have also got to be kidding me calling them old and that their music all sounds the same. Shame on you morons! Maybe you should actually listen to some of their music before you ridicule.
By Kathy is an idiot
March 12, 2008 5:56 PM | Link to this
Crap 80’s bands trying to market to your generation???? Would this be the same generation that gave us such classic acts as Limp Bizkit and all the other garbage rock/rap hybrids. Or maybe you are younger than that and are bringing such outstanding acts as Panic at the Disco or some of the other lame crap I hear put out by new bands these days. Come back and talk to me in 20 years and lets see if any of your generation’s bands stand the test of time……I seriously doubt they will.
By C
March 12, 2008 5:58 PM | Link to this
REM is back!!! Can’t wait for the show in june.
By Wendell G
March 12, 2008 6:04 PM | Link to this
Kathy you little ungrateful b*tch, typical of your generation. No respect for others and you have a major lack of work ethic. REM, B52’s, Love Tractor, & more paved the way for your so called music. Your music blows. As the post above, who will be left standing 20 years from now for your generation?
By Sanjay
March 12, 2008 6:26 PM | Link to this
This year at SXSW is all about the newest great band to come out of Athens, GA - THE WHIGS. Everybody check out ‘Mission Control’ - nope, don’t work for them, just a big fan of the band.
And crapping on R.E.M. is just ignorant. They created an entirely original style of music. Man, how I miss that. I’ll forgive you for calling their music tired 2 decades after they came to be. I hope you’ll forgive me for finding FM music from this decade tired after 2 verses.
By Brian
March 12, 2008 6:39 PM | Link to this
Be sure to check out Athens’ own King of Prussia! text to be linked
By Brock
March 12, 2008 6:56 PM | Link to this
REMHQ won’t tell you but I will. Tix for Lakewood go onsale 4-25. Looking forward to seeing the boys again. Signed, Grandpaw!
By Milla
March 12, 2008 8:05 PM | Link to this
Those who commented about how the band looks or how 80’s bands try to be “cool”, obviously are not familiar with R.E.M. and their success. Please do your research, know what you are talking about so that you do not sound ignorant. Support your local bands!
By grrtch
March 12, 2008 8:37 PM | Link to this
Hey folks, the new album sounds pretty doggone good. I’ll tell ya straight - their sound has finally sailed outta the post-Berry doldrums. Lakewood’s shaping up to be one superfine time!
As for the late night venom… You two can eat my ass… justa makin’ sure I use vocabulary basic enough to penetrate such impaired intellects… and just in case you doubt my rock n roll cred, I’ll even let ya smell the glove - later! cha cha cha!
By Objective
March 13, 2008 12:32 AM | Link to this
Let’s see. REM had that big hit Losing My Religion. And that song with about the jelly beans going boom or something. OK…what else? Right, nothing else. The original posters are correct. REM is an eighties band that has been irrelevant since 1991. But that’s rock-n-roll. Very few artists remain “on top” and popular for more than a few years. Rolling Stones, U2, Elton John….that might be about it. By “on top” I mean bestselling megastar. REM is just above one-hit wonder and somewhere below Prince. They should be out there still trying to cash in on what’s left. Who can blame them?
By Mitch
March 13, 2008 1:57 AM | Link to this
Objective,
One hit wonder? Prince? What planet are you smoking crack on right now? Sounds like envy to me! Go play up more of your Prince favorites. Coward… fool!
By Jason
March 13, 2008 11:56 AM | Link to this
Actually, he’s right. Out of Time is REM’s only album to ever top the charts. Orange Crush hit #1 in the 80’s. It was all downhill after Out of Time, but that’s how most bands fare. I would say consider yourself blessed if you ever had anything near the top.
By Just The Facts
March 13, 2008 3:18 PM | Link to this
REM definitely has a loyal fan base, but anyone who doubts REM is one of the music industries biggest disappointments / flops, read this from an article called 20 Biggest Record Co. Screw-Ups of All Time:
“The Last Of The Mega-Deals
13 One label’s big spending single-handedly ends “alt-rock” boomIn 1996, Warner Bros. signed R.E.M. to a five-album contract for a reported $80 million. It was the most costly record deal in history and elicited one of the lowest returns. Warner needed R.E.M. to sell at least 3 million copies of all five records to come out in the black, but sleepy folk-rock albums like 1998’s Up moved a fifth of that. The execs went further into the hole by allowing R.E.M. to keep the masters of all their Warner releases, forfeiting future revenues generated by the band’s popular ’80s and early-’90s discs. No one knows how much the label lost—but the debacle brought to a close an era in which acts known for their “integrity” could score huge paydays.
By Janet
March 13, 2008 10:40 PM | Link to this
I had no idea Michael Stipe abused meth. Disappointing news.
By ian mackaye
March 13, 2008 10:45 PM | Link to this
it wasn’t r.e.m.’s “integrity” that got them that record deal, it was the fact that in 1995 they were one of the biggest bnads on the planet and it was time to renew their contract. on the warner bros label r.e.m. produced big radio hits such as orange crush, stand, losing my religion, shiny happy people, drive, man on the moon, what the frequency kenneth, bang & blame. WB didn’t lose anything off rem. Its easy to forget now but there was a time in the early -mid 90’s when rem was the biggest band on the planet—even bigger than u2. Pearl Jam,U2, R.E.M., Smashing Pumkins all started to experience weeker album sales starting in the mid-late 90’s. People wanted to listen to a new kind of music, like the rap-rock hybrid (limp bizkit) mentioned above.
By Ponch
March 14, 2008 5:11 AM | Link to this
REM was never anywhere close to U2: in popularity, sales, charts or quality.
By NotaFAN
March 27, 2008 4:36 PM | Link to this
REM used to be good - then the lyrics started suffering to “get the music out” - Man on the moon - yeah yeah yeah yeah - I could’ve wrote better crap than that.
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