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R.E.M. DOCUMENT REISSUED (2012): The times they were a-changin'

On paper, Scott Litt seemed an unlikely choice as co-producer of REM's 1987 album Document. The band were poised to make the great leap forward after the success of Lifes Rich Pageant of the previous

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NIRVANA'S NEVERMIND 20 YEARS ON: Classic is as classic does

The past is not just another country, it is one with very different radio. Let's go back to a time when people wore strange clothes and listened to very different music. A place where Bryan Adams was

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PEARL JAM CONSIDERED (2013): Coming on like a lightning bolt

...would make the same accusations against, say R.E.M. who spent years re-writing a couple of their...

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MARTIN PHILLIPPS, OF THE DISBANDED CHILLS, INTERVIEWED (1992): The dream is over

...and friends Peter Holsapple (who works with R.E.M.) and onetime Brian Wilson/’Beach Boys...

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R.E.M.: Murmur (1983)

...didn't invent the genre known as alt.rock or... ...curated world of major label pop and rock came R.E.M. from, of all places, Athens in Georgia. It is... ...it always happens – but even so, R.E.M. of all people? They didn't look the part... ...amidst that world of polished pop Murmur and R.E.M. seemed . . . authentic? That is certainly how... ...and the street music press of Rip It Up, R.E.M. became THE college radio act. By the time of... ...which attended Boy George, Madonna et al. R.E.M. just got up and played great , economic,... ...“like the kudzu in its cover, fans of R.E.M. had emerged and spread wildly”. The...

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R.E.M.; THE EARLY YEARS: Mumbling into the future

When R.E.M sneaked up in the early 80s with their debut album Murmur, few could have anticipated what the band meant – and would become. Just as Talking Heads had become the banner-waver for emo

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THE VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO, A TRIBUTE ALBUM: Another look in the art-rock mirror

...to the VU debut came easy: Michael Stipe (of R.E.M.), Kurt Vile, Sharon Van Etten, guitarists Bill...

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R.E.M. GREEN REISSUED (2013): This is a call . . .

When Green was released in late 1988, Allan Jones in Melody Maker said he was reminded “how much REM are the group that U2 so deafeningly want to be: visionary, bold and lucid, prophets of the s

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BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2010 Arcade Fire: The Suburbs (Merge)

...such song there is a Suburban War, a gentle R.E.M.-style jangle which belies its punk-rock title....

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MATTHEW SWEET INTERVIEWED (1993): It should be a more Sweet world

...songs which catch a little of the post-Byrds/R.E.M. shimmer (Your Sweet Voice on Girlfriend) or... ...he was just a pretty face? So where does this R.E.M. offsider, onetime Golden Palomino and big cult... ...with. Then it was into the dB’s, early R.E.M. and Big Star.” After high school he... ...Athens, Georgia, largely prompted by meeting R.E.M. on their way through Nebraska way before they... ...Easter (Let’s Active), who had produced R.E.M.’s indie releases. “I wrote to him... ...with Buzz of Delight (which also included R.E.M. Michael Stipe’s sister Lynda) and cut... ...with a variety of producers (latter-day R.E.M. producer Scott Litt among them) and had... ...I first went to New York”) – and R.E.M. It’s good company and with the single...

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CMON CMON, PROFILED (2025): Something beginning with C

The release of the new single Turn Off The Lights by the Belgian trio Cmon Cmon reminded us of what a fine power pop band they are. But before we introduce them – we're guessing they would be ne

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THE BEATLES; LIVE IN 95: All back to the Beeb

...Elvis, the Beatles -– like the Stones, R.E.M., less so U2 and surprisingly Lou Reed --...

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R.E.M.: Collapse Into Now (Warners)

Thirty years into a career and with this, their 15th studio album, it seems a bit rich for REM bassist Mike Mills to say this one is somehow different with really beautiful slow songs, some nice mid-t

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R.E.M. LIFES RICH PAGEANT REISSUED (2011): The turning point

...R.E.M. re-signed to Warners for a reported US$80... ...have seen diminishing sales returns, and R.E.M. was at about that point. It wasn't encouraging... ...not feel embarrassed. The power of those early R.E.M. albums comes back in the on-going reissue... ...on Me). Of course being an alt.indie band, R.E.M. wasn't about to make things easy. The track... ...reviewer Antony DeCurtis to write “For R.E.M. the underground ends here.” Not quite....

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Cut Off Your Hands: Hollow (Speak N Spell)

Frankly, when I first encountered Cut Off Your Hands two things struck me: First, how do you do that? (You get one off and then . . .), and more importantly how their bouncy pop-rock would travel. Whe

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GREG JOHNSON, PROFILED AND REVIEWED (2024): Back for another crack

...from recent form and although the cover of R.E.M.'s Drive is unexpected, it fits the melancholy...

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The Tubs: Cotton Crown (digital outlets)

This London-based Welsh band come off as a smart marriage of REM's indie.rock jangle, slightly yobby British post-punk pop and a revved up version of Scotland's Proclaimers. In other words, they make

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