The Baseball Project

R.E.M.’s Peter Buck and Mike Mills are in the studio with producer Mitch Easter for the first time in more than 30 years, according to a Twitter post. The musicians are recording a new album at Easter’s Fidelitorium Recording studio in Kernersville, N.C., with The Baseball Project, their long-running group featuring former R.E.M. sideman Scott McCaughey, The Dream Syndicate’s Steve Wynn and drummer Linda Pitmon. Easter produced R.E.M.’s 1981 single “Radio Free Europe” and its 1982 debut EP, Chronic Town, at his Drive-In studio in Winston-Salem, N.C., and went on to produce the group at other area studios for its 1983 full-length debut Murmur and its 1984 follow-up, Reckoning. Easter has been working out of Fidelitorium since the mid-1990s and has consulted on anniversary reissue editions o...