Munich, September 2008 Photos: René Huemer

📻 Turn it up loud! Monster is 31 years young. The band’s ninth studio LP, produced with Scott Litt, was released September 26/27 1994. 🤔 👹 What’s your go-to track?

🦉 📣 Introducing Howl Owl Howl, a band comprised of Hootie frontman Darius Rucker, @millsish.bsky.social & drummer Steve Gorman. The longtime friends and co-writers will release their debut single on Halloween, followed by a string of tour dates. Tickets on sale Friday here: howlowlhowl.com

Peter and Mike opening the new Radio Free Europe 2025 remix EP on the road with @thebaseballproject.bsky.social in Somerville MA and tomorrow night Philadelphia, then DC 🎸 Photographs by the Baseball Project! ⚾️🎸

But all kidding aside, today we are all Jimmy Kimmel. UPDATE, and as of tomorrow Jimmy Kimmel is back to being Jimmy Kimmel. One of our favorite ever Mean Tweets (short clip of Jeff Bridges) but that’s just our opinion, man.

🪐 youtu.be/9c4jY04ODdM?...

Ready to Roll… @millsish.bsky.social gets the @thebaseballproject.bsky.social vessel ready for the drive to @mrsmalls.bsky.social in Pittsburgh tonight. Don’t miss out—get tix here: mrsmalls.com/events/the-b...

Tom Blyth and Russell Tovey star in Carmen Emmi’s ‘PLAINCLOTHES.’ In theaters September 19. We went and saw this last night at IFC Center, it is an awesome film, beautifully acted, kudos to all involved

The official lyric video for an early song that did not really have real lyrics, but this works pretty well. Speaking of Radio Free Europe, visit REMHQ (store.remhq.com) to order your copy of the 10” translucent orange vinyl with proceeds benefiting RFE/RL. www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_rs...

Drink The Sea (Peter’s band with Barrett Martin) has announced a string of European tour dates later this year beginning on November 28 in Oviedo, Spain and running through December 21 in Bristol, England. Tickets are now on sale on the venue websites & here: www.bandsintown.com/a/15601342-d...

Read Casey Neill’s substack article about the R.E.M. concert in Portland in 1989 and the band’s vocal support of Opal Creek, an old growth forest in Oregon. open.substack.com/pub/caseynei...

Drink The Sea, Peter’s latest musical project with Barrett Martin, has announced a US tour in January and February ‘26. The band includes Alain Johannes, Duke Garwood, Lisette Garcia, and Abbey Blackwell. Tickets 🎟️ are available now at venue websites.

Important info about presale..,

Michael Shannon @jasonnarducy.bsky.social and Friends will be touring in tribute to the 40th anniversary of the band’s fourth studio album, Lifes Rich Pageant, Feb.-March ‘26. Tickets go on sale this Friday at 10:00 AM. We’ll post more details as we get them but for now stay tuned to Jason’s page.

I'm told by those who've listened that this is a really good episode of a really good podcast. It might be too much of me to revisit myself. As Pee Wee Herman once said so poignantly: "I lived it." open.spotify.com/episode/1S40...

Very cool @remhq.bsky.social @millsish.bsky.social

🪐 Playing The Saturn in Birmingham tonight! Modeling my truck stop purchases. Photo- Linda Pitmon 🥁 @thebaseballproject.bsky.social

Birminghammers! Tonight—The Minus 5 opening for The Baseball Project at #Saturn. Come rock with us!

Scott McCaughey sent this photo of Bill hanging out with Peter & Mike during @thebaseballproject.bsky.social rehearsals earlier this week. The Baseball Project and The Minus Five Double Header Tour starts today in Jacksonville. Grab your tix here: bnds.us/1yeiwy

“It usually takes a few good years for me to decide where an album stands in the pantheon of recorded work we’ve done. This one may be third behind Murmur and Automatic For The People.” - Mike Mills in Mojo, 1996 New Adventures In Hi-Fi was released on this day in 1996. What’s your favorite 🎵?

Some songs still resonate... For more, listen to our playlist, We Are Hope Despite The Times (found.ee/rem-wahdtt) www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxCz...

Radio Free Europe 2025 10” vinyl EP is almost here!Despite the manufacturing timeline running longer than expected, those who have already pre-ordered from the official REMHQ store will have their copies shipped on 9.12 & will receive them soon thereafter.The retail release is now set for 10.17 ⬇️

From last night’s show at the Rialto Room in Athens: Kevn Kinney, Peter, and @millsish.bsky.social Photos by @karenryanphoto.bsky.social

🖊️ 🎶 Michael with some more lyrics from “Its The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)”

@millsish.bsky.social Mike Mills says “Love your posts on BlueSky, but wasn’t it “that low plane, fine, then” not “flying” , then? I remember you said it was from a roadside sign about watch out for low planes flying. But that was a long time ago.” So Im doing my best. Thx Mike!🫰xxx

“This song is nothing if it’s not a complete slagging off or a lampooning… a putting in place of where media has gotten us in 1994, what media has reached, where it’s at at this point.” - @michaelstipe.bsky.social “WTFK?” was released this week in 1994. m.youtube.com/watch?v=jWkM...

I actually changed it to ‘a way to shield the hated heat’ because that was much better

Ok its ‘feed it off an aux, speak, grunt no strength, the ladder start to clatter with fear fight down height, wire in a fire representing seven games, a government for hire and a combat site’.

On this day in 1989, Michael joined Amy and Emily of @indigogirlsmusic.bsky.social at John Keane studios in Athens to record “I’ll Give You My Skin.”

Any other lyrics— don’t even try chronic town murmur or reckoning btw— just form vowels and syllables, and mean it

“To me, ‘Driver 8’ is probably the quintessential R.E.M. song of that particular period.” - Peter Buck. Guitar School interview, 1993 “Driver 8” was released as a single on this day in 1985–the second single from Fables Of The Reconstruction. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuFI...

It’s “Team by team reporters, baffled, trumped, tethered, cropped, Look at that low playing, fine, then

I can

I listen to the finest worksong www.youtube.com/watch?v=559e...

It’s ‘Left of west and coming in a hurry with the Furies breathing down your neck

The whole album is about 🔥 , about everything you think about 🔥 as being: cleansing, something that destroys everything in its path. It’s an element that’s everywhere; the metaphorical & allegorical interpretations of 🔥 are endless.” M. Stipe Happy anniversary to Document, released on 8.31.1987

What a fun night, the final show of that wonderful #Fables40 tour by such a great group of musicians. And here’s more next year for #Pageant40

New music from Drink The Sea, Peter’s latest project with Barrett Martin, et. al. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIoz...

Exciting news from Drink the Sea, Peter’s latest project. They’ll be playing at Lollapalooza Chile 🇨🇱 in March 2026.

Green Grow the Rushes from sold-out Vicar Street in Dublin, final Fables show, just a great band, sounds, crowd. Always something super-special about Dublin for this music, since way back 🇮🇪 - Bertis @jasonnarducy.bsky.social

Luke Haines - Peter Buck “Blow Your Mind” Hot Sauce. Available at gigs or online. Proceeds to charity. Order: www.rockadoodledo.com/shop-all/blo... To benefit: www.musicforall.org.uk

Vincent Moon film from R.E.M.’s residency in Dublin 25 years after Chronic Town was released in 1982. Here’s the film on YouTube, where it’s really not been seen all that often given the power and thrill of those shows captured by Vincent Moon himself 🎸 youtu.be/ErdDdjSVk-E?...

Happy Anniversary Chronic Town, released on August 24, 1982.

Two phenomenal nights in London included a visit from the actual Fables of the Reconstruction producer, Joe Boyd. Nottingham, Bristol, and Dublin are next!

Uncut’s report from the London tribute show… www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/mich...

Song of the day, sadly— from the prescient playlist of years gone by berto.fyi/HopeDespiteT...

It’s a sign of the times, indeed 🎸 open.spotify.com/track/6u4Z42...

Jason Narducy shared these photos (by Christy Bush) from Wednesday night’s Glasgow show and reports that things are going great as he, Michael Shannon and Friends prep for tonight’s Fables show in London. 🇬🇧

“Sitting Still” from last night’s Michael Shannon, @jasonnarducy.bsky.social & Friends show at Glasgow’s The Garage. Read a full report from @bertisdowns.bsky.social at the band’s Instagram page: www.instagram.com/p/DNngSelg01...