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Tomorrow R.E.M. will release a brand-new double live album, entitled R.E.M. Live At The Olympian via Warner Bros. Records. The two-CD set features 39 songs that capture the best moments from the band’s 2007 “working rehearsals” at Dublin’s fabled Olympia club where singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, and bassist Mike Mills tested out new songs for R.E.M.’s 2008 studio album Accelerate.
The material was tested over five nights before capacity crowds comprised of fan-club members, friends, family, and fans from all over the world who were privy to R.E.M.'s so-called “experiment in terror,” as guitarist Peter Buck puts it. “We were just trying to do something we hadn't done before," Buck says, "which meant there was no relaxing during the set. Every second we were playing something we didn't know all that well. Which was kind of good — there were all kinds of terror elements going on during that show."
The double album comes with the documentary This Is Not a Show, which contains footage from the series of performances.
Listen to the entire two-disc album in it's entirety (or stream track by track) courtesy of NPR
Watch the video for "Carnival of Sorts"...
Carnival of Sorts (Box Cars)
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Watch the Trailer for This is Not A Show...
New This Is Not A Show Trailer by Bill Berg-Hillinger
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