REM's Peter Buck to release first solo album
REM guitarist Peter Buck has announced his first solo album. On sale this Friday, the album will only be available as a run of 2,000 vinyl records. "I know I said for years that I would never make a...
View ArticleFormer R.E.M. Guitarist Peter Buck Announces First Solo Album
R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck announced on his former band's website today that he will release his first solo album this Friday, October 5th, on Mississippi Records. Its first run will only be available...
View ArticleCharlotte-Area Career Almanac
inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America. Robinson Bradshaw & Hinson, P.A. attorneys Everett Bowman, Patrick Bryant, Peter Buck, Mark Merritt and John Wester were named 2013 Charlotte Lawyers of...
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yet roving bend on his latest record, “Redemption City,” which is self-released and broodingly solipsistic. He performs with Peter Buck of R.E.M. in a fund-raising effort to replenish his coffers after...
View ArticleFAST TRACK blog: Mark Higdon joins MainGate
Carmel Dads’ Club board of directors. Accounting David Dolins David Dolins and Tim Miller hired as staff by Greenwalt CPAs. Peter Buck, Joshua Malarsky, Shaun Tipton promoted to directors; Kinsey...
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Buck is the first ex-member of R.E.M. to take the solo plunge, and the guitarist has totally done it his way: cutting the whole thing in five days, on analog tape, with his friends, including R.E.M....
View ArticleCeleb birthdays for the week of Dec. 2-8
Rick Buckler of The Jam is 57. Country singer Bill Lloyd of Foster and Lloyd is 57. Comedian Steven Wright is 57. Guitarist Peter Buck of R.E.M. is 56. Drummer David Lovering of The Pixies is 51....
View ArticleCeleb birthdays for the week of Dec. 2-8
Dec. 2: Actress Julie Harris is 87. Actress Cathy Lee Crosby is 68. Country singer John Wesley Ryles is 62. Actor Dan Butler ("Frasier") is 58. Actor Dennis Christopher ("Breaking Away,’’ ‘'Chariots of...
View ArticleCeleb birthdays for the week of Dec. 2-8
Dec. 2: Actress Julie Harris is 87. Actress Cathy Lee Crosby is 68. Country singer John Wesley Ryles is 62. Actor Dan Butler ("Frasier") is 58. Actor Dennis Christopher ("Breaking Away,""Chariots of...
View ArticleCeleb birthdays for the week of Dec. 2-8
Buckler of The Jam is 57. Country singer Bill Lloyd of Foster and Lloyd is 57. Comedian Steven Wright is 57. Guitarist Peter Buck of R.E.M. is 56. Drummer David Lovering of The Pixies is 51. Actress...
View ArticleToday in History
Irish Free State, came into force one year to the day after it was signed in London. On this date: In 1790, Congress moved to Philadelphia from New York. In 1884, Army engineers completed construction...
View ArticleThe Smiths: Better than the Beatles?
Over tea at the W hotel in New York this week, Fletcher discussed where Morrissey and Marr stand, why the partnership splintered, what a fifth album might have sounded like, and crucially, whether the...
View ArticleMexico: R.E.M. guitarist's benefit will have Todos Santos rocking
Mexico’s Todos Santos, now undergoing a mini building boom, will rock for 10 days next month when former R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck stages the second annual Todos Santos Music Festival. The Jan. 10-26...
View ArticleNow on iTunes: The Replacements''Songs for Slim'
all-time greatest rock bands. Artists like Lucinda Williams, Craig Finn, Steve Earle, John Doe, Frank Black, The Jayhawks and Peter Buck are keeping the Songs for Slim project going by recording Dunlap...
View ArticleGetting lost in Baja, Mexico
festival, which just wrapped up its 10th year, and the growing, January-long music festival founded by part-time resident Peter Buck of REM (his is the purple house, just off the main drag of Calle...
View ArticleFans, friends remember writer Paul Williams as pioneer
music journalist Friday for his insight, creativity and originality. “Paul Williams was a believer,” R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck wrote on PaulWilliams.com. “He started being a believer when he was 16,...
View ArticleNot at Coachella? Don't worry — neither are these shows
quite clear, as he's an artist who seems at constant war with his own mind. Brokechella, April 20 at Six01 Studios (601 S. Anderson St.). Cost: $10. Now in its third edition, this downtown festival...
View ArticleNot at Coachella? Don't worry — neither are these shows
Peter Buck, April 30 at the Troubadour (9081 Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood). Cost: $30.88. Former R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck opens, but Hitchcock's recently released "Love From London" shows the...
View Article“Hooray, we’re done”: The inside story behind R.E.M.’s disbandment
Allocating the time to record it, as a band, with Stipe, was easier considered than done, however, given that the members remained constantly in motion. Michael Stipe continued to engage his multiple...
View ArticleJoe Boyd: “Nobody knew who the hell Nick Drake was”
And so I called him up and he brought in a tape, and I listened to the tape, and immediately called him again and said, “Come on in, let’s talk.” And we talked about making a record. He was a Cambridge...
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