Singer joins tribute band to perform “These Days” and “The Great Beyond” for first time since 2008<\/p>\n
\n\tMichael Stipe<\/a> made a rare onstage appearance Saturday to sing two R.E.M.<\/a> tracks during Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy\u2019s Brooklyn concert.<\/p>\n \n\tShannon and Narducy have been touring as a R.E.M. tribute act<\/a> over the past few years, and actual members of the Rock Hall-inducted band have occasionally joined them onstage, including a 2024 gig in R.E.M.\u2019s native Athens, Georgia that brought together all four core members of the group<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n\tAt a pair of 2025 gigs, in Athens and Brooklyn, Stipe joined Shannon and Narducy for a rendition of \u201cPretty Persuasion.\u201d To close out Saturday\u2019s show at Brooklyn Steel, Stipe opted to sing two other R.E.M. cuts, Lifes Rich Pageant\u2019s \u201cThese Days\u201d (Shannon and Narducy\u2019s tour is celebrating the 40th anniversary of that 1986 album) and \u201cThe Great Beyond\u201d from the Man on the Moon soundtrack:<\/p>\n \n\tThe performance marked the first time since 2008 that Stipe has sang both of those tracks live.<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n \n\tWhile R.E.M. have been reluctant<\/a> to have a full-fledged reunion, the group continues to celebrate their legacy in unlikely ways, including their cameos on the Shannon and Narducy shows, as well as their surprise one-off performance at the Songwriters Hall of Fame induction ceremony<\/a> in June 2024.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cIt would never be as good,\u201d guitarist Peter Buck previously said of a reunion, noting the band was right to break up in 2011. \u201cAt that point, there wasn\u2019t anything we could agree on really, musically: what kind of music, how to record it, are we gonna go on tour. We could barely agree on where to go to dinner. And now we can just agree on where to go to dinner.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Singer joins tribute band to perform “These Days” and “The Great Beyond” for first time since 2008 Michael…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,64827,18252,9,24,63,64828],"class_list":["post-156992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-michael-shannon-with-jason-narducy","tag-michael-stipe","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-r-e-m"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}