{"id":9524,"date":"2026-03-18T13:50:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T13:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/mike-mills-rem-tribute-bloomington\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T13:50:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T13:50:41","slug":"mike-mills-rem-tribute-bloomington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/mike-mills-rem-tribute-bloomington\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Mills Rocks With R.E.M. Tribute In Indiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spinmagazine.com\/files\/2024\/06\/GettyImages-2156801319-scaled.jpg\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" alt=\"\"><figcaption>R.E.M.&#8217;s Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Michael Stipe and Bill Berry at the 2024 Songwriters Hall of Fame induction (photo: Angela Weiss \/ AFP via Getty Images).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>R.E.M. bassist Mike Mills made a surprise appearance last night (March 17) with Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy\u2019s R.E.M. tribute project during their <em>Lifes Rich Pageant<\/em> tour finale at the Bluebird in Bloomington, In., meaning that each of the group\u2019s four original members <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spinmagazine.com\/2026\/03\/michael-stipe-shannon-narducy\/\" target=\"_blank\">joined in on the fun<\/a> throughout the five-week trek. See fan-shot footage below.<\/p>\n<p>Mills\u2019 cameo was even more apropos in light of the fact that R.E.M. recorded <em>Lifes Rich Pageant<\/em> in the spring of 1986 just outside of Bloomington at John Mellencamp\u2019s Belmont Mall studio. The band then played on campus at IU Auditorium that September, following the July release of the album.<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spinmagazine.com\/2026\/03\/jay-z-yankee-stadium\/\">JA\u0178-Z\u00a0Books Yankee Stadium For Anniversary Gigs<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spinmagazine.com\/2026\/03\/pearl-jam-drummer-update\/\">Pearl Jam Presses Ahead After Matt Cameron Departure<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spinmagazine.com\/2026\/03\/tinariwen-goes-back-to-basics\/\">Tinariwen Goes Back to Basics<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<lite-youtube videoid=\"0I_82XuEgYA\" style=\"bottom: 0; height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; max-width:100%;\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>On Tuesday, Mills lent his vocals to \u201cRadio Free Europe,\u201d \u201cFall on Me,\u201d \u201cSuperman\u201d and \u201cCuyahoga\u201d and returned later in the show to add extra zest to \u201cStar 69\u201d from 1994\u2019s <em>Monster<\/em> and \u201cThe Great Beyond\u201d from the 1999 soundtrack to the Jim Carrey-starring Andy Kaufman biopic\u00a0<em>Man on the Moon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe joined Shannon and Narducy in New York for the latter song and \u201cThese Days\u201d from <em>Pageant<\/em>. Both guitarist Peter Buck and drummer Bill Berry were also on hand throughout a two-night run at 40 Watt Club in the band\u2019s former home base of Athens, Ga. That followed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spinmagazine.com\/2025\/02\/rem-reunion-athens-georgia\/\" target=\"_blank\">historic Feb. 27-28, 2025, shows<\/a>\u00a0at the same venue when Stipe, Buck, Berry and Mills all took the stage at various points for just the second time since 2007.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<lite-youtube videoid=\"pI112sDCcqk\" style=\"bottom: 0; height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; max-width:100%;\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Since early 2024, Shannon, Narducy, Mountain Goats\/Bob Mould drummer Jon Wurster, Wilco bassist John Stirratt, guitarist Dag Juhlin and keyboardist Vijay Tellis-Nayak have toured full performances of R.E.M.\u2019s <em>Murmur<\/em>, <em>Reckoning<\/em> and <em>Fables of the Reconstruction<\/em>. The combo will reassemble for a handful of yet-to-be announced summer festival appearances before a short September run in the U.K., Ireland and the midwest in September.<\/p>\n<p>Narducy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spinmagazine.com\/2026\/03\/michael-stipe-shannon-narducy\/\" target=\"_blank\">recently told SPIN<\/a> that momentum is pointing towards continuing the project with the next R.E.M. album in sequence, 1987\u2019s <em>Document<\/em>, which was the band\u2019s last on independent label I.R.S. before signing with Warner Bros.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery night, Michael takes a poll amongst the band and it has been been a pretty positive reaction,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve been playing [album track] \u2018Fireplace\u2019 as kind of like, if we do, here\u2019s a little glimpse. In North Carolina, Matt Douglas from Mountain Goats played sax on that with us and in Boston, Dana Colley from Morphine did as well. So, we would love to do it. We\u2019ll see. We\u2019re just trying to get through this tour and then we\u2019ll revisit everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R.E.M.&#8217;s Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Michael Stipe and Bill Berry at the 2024 Songwriters Hall of Fame induction (photo: Angela Weiss \/ AFP via Getty Images). 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