R.E.M. will tour North America this May and June in support of “Accelerate,” due for release on Warner Bros. Records on April 1. The band will be joined by support acts Modest Mouse and The National.
R.E.M. will also headline the Langerado Music Festival on March 8 at the Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation in South Florida and perform at Stubb’s Bar-B-Que on March 12 during the annual South-by-Southwest Music Festival in Austin, TX.
“Accelerate,” R.E.M.’s 14th studio album, was recorded in Vancouver, BC, Dublin, Ireland and Athens, GA last spring with Grammy Award-winning producer Jacknife Lee, who is noted for his work with U2 (“How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb”), as well as Snow Patrol, Bloc Party and Kasabian. Last October, the band released a live CD/DVD, the first ever of their 27-year career, entitled “R.E.M. Live.”
R.E.M. tour dates with Modest Mouse & The National:
May
23 BC Vancouver Deer Lake Park
29 CA Los Angeles Hollywood Bowl
31 CA Berkeley The Greek Theatre
June
3 CO Denver Red Rocks Amphitheatre
6 IL Chicago United Center
8 ON Toronto Molson Amphitheatre
10 NC Raleigh Walnut Creek Amphitheatre
11 DC Washington Merriweather Post Pavilion
13 MA Boston Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts
14 NY Wantagh Jones Beach Theater
18 PA Philadelphia Mann Center for the Performing Arts
19 NY New York TBA
21 GA Atlanta Lakewood Amphitheatre
