According to Silicon Alley Insider, the Athenians are premiering Accelerate on iLike beginning 3/24. The album doesn’t hit the racks until 4/1, so this is a pretty big coup for iLike. Remember, Michael and the boys premiered Around The Sun on MySpace back when it only had 4 million users. Then the site went on to invent Arctic Monkeys and Lily Allen! R.E.M. are social-networking tastemakers.

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Comments (8)
  1. That’s the gayest picture of Michael Stipe ever.

  2. Joshtinpowers  |   Posted on Mar 10th, 2008

    “That’s the gayest picture of Michael Stipe ever.”

    For a second there, I actually thought it was a picture of Moby.

  3. Greg  |   Posted on Mar 10th, 2008

    Is he sticking his hand in a huge vagina?

  4. Thanks for turning me on to iLike. It’s a great application.

  5. Remember when they would put out good albums and you would just go buy them?

  6. “Is he sticking his hand in a huge vagina?”

    I lol’d

  7. he looks like a gay tourist in vaginaland.

    yeah, that’s the best i’ve got today.

  8. Stipe is saying… “what’s this thing ? “

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