There are two major demarcation points for R.E.M. fan – when the group left indie…
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List Inconsequential: Indie Songs for Kids
Side A Chromeo – “Nice N Clean” To be honest, I had a pretty awesome…
Concert Review: Robyn Hitchcock/The Young Fresh Fellows/Peter Buck
(Photo: Nigel D Nudds) How strange is it to see Peter Buck sing? For 30…
R.E.M.: Document (25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
“Crazy, crazy world/ Crazy, crazy times.” Document is an album that is hair-triggered with rhetoric…
List Inconsequential: Runt of the Litter: Weak Albums By Strong Artists
Sky Blue Sky by Wilco (2007) Drugs help. When Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy went to…
List Inconsequential: Beautiful Songs About Cities
“New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down” by LCD Soundsystem (2007) James…
PLAYLIST: R.E.M.
To mark R.E.M.’s recent retirement, we selected the group as our next PLAYLIST band. The…
Best Albums of 2011 (So Far): You Ain’t Livin’ Until You Hear These
The year is more than half over with the big push of fall releases to…
R.E.M.: Lifes Rich Pageant (25th Anniversary Edition)
R.E.M. Lifes Rich Pageant (25th Anniversary Edition) Rating: 4.7/5.0 Label: Capitol/I.R.S. By the time they…
Interview: Scott McCaughey of Minus 5, R.E.M. (and more!) Vol. 2
As our conversation with Scott McCaughey continues, we turn to R.E.M., Collapse Into Now, vegetarianism…