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Chris Bilheimer Profile
R.E.M.’s longtime art director is profiled in this video: The Story Behind the Reid
R.E.M.’s longtime art director is profiled in this video: The Story Behind the Reid
R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck discusses the band’s extensive archive, his friendships with his fellow members and why he’s happy to be done with major labels. On September 21st, 2011, singer Michael Stipe, bassist Mike Mills and guitarist Peter Buck of the Athens, Georgia–born rock group R.E.M. issued a statement on their website, declaring that they … Continued
From Rollingstone.com: Twenty-five years ago, R.E.M. released Out of Time, which eventually sold over four million copies in the United States and transformed longtime college radio darlings into a mainstream concern. It was the album’s first single “Losing My Religion” that definitively turned the group to artistic and commercial leaders of the burgeoning alternative rock movement. Up until … Continued
From Pitchfork.com: R.E.M.’s 1991 LP Out of Time might not be their masterpiece, but it’s arguably their most important album for the way it broke them on mainstream radio, reaching far beyond the commercial potential displayed on 1988’s Green. Out of Time was an LP that redefined R.E.M. as both artists and icons of pop culture, one … Continued
Three months after R.E.M pulled their famous catalogue from Warner Bros to sign with Concord Music Group, the band has inked an exclusive worldwide publishing deal with UMPG. That means leaving behind a long-standing publishing agreement with another WMG company, Warner/Chappell. The new deal with UMPG was agreed between the band, their long-time manager Bertis … Continued