During a break from sessions for R.E.M.’s next album, Mike Mills contributed a cover of Billy Bragg’s “Sing Their Souls Back Home” — off the agit-folkie’s 2008 album Mr. Love & Justice — to The Voice Project, described by REMHQ.com as “a song-driven movement inspired by the women of Uganda who are using their voices and songs as vehicles for change in the war-ravaged region of Northern Uganda, Southern Sudan and Eastern Congo.”
The performance, seen above, was filmed at Mills’ Los Angeles home on Feb. 26, and joins a series of short films featuring artists including Andrew Bird, The Submarines and Bedouin Soundclash, among others. Below we’ve featured two more clips: Joe Purdy covering R.E.M.’s “Swan Swan H” and Joseph Arthur tackling Peter Gabriel’s “Shock the Monkey.”
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PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- Milestones: R.E.M. turns 30 today; band made live debut April 5, 1980
- Record Store Day vinyl from R.E.M., Sonic Youth, Ramones, Factory Records
- Spin in the ’80s: The Cure, R.E.M., Morrissey, The Replacements and much more
- Video: Billy Bragg, Florence and Machine perform Pogues’ ‘Fairytale of New York’
- Bill Berry plays ‘Crazy Like a Fox’ cover on R.E.M.’s new fan club Christmas single
- Video: Michael Stipe shoots iPhone clips of R.E.M. in the recording studio
- Billy Bragg reunites The Clash’s Mick Jones, Topper Headon for ‘Jail Guitar Doors’
