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R.E.M. | Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage: 1982-2011

Warner Bros (2011)
Now R.E.M. have died two deaths: first, when drummer and founding member Bill Berry split for the comforts of country life in 1997, and then nail-in-the-coffin style, when the Athens, Georgia, band announced its official break-up two months ago.
By ZETH LUNDY | November 16, 2011

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R.E.M. | Collapse Into Now

Warner Bros. (2011)
It's tough for a band nearly 30 years into their singularly influential career not to dissolve into an adjective. But R.E.M. have taken their moniker on quite a musical journey.
By RYAN REED | March 16, 2011

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Mitch Easter brings his old-school Pro-Tools

Studio affects
Could some of rock's greatest albums possibly be produced in somebody's home studio, a by-product of the Garage Band generation? Underground-rock producer/nerd Mitch Easter doesn't think so.
By JONATHAN DONALDSON | February 16, 2011

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Gaga's eau de bloody load, Diddy exposed as 9/11 mastermind, and other music news in brief

The Big Hurt
Smell ya, shouldn't have to tell ya!
By DAVID THORPE | February 09, 2011

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Eleven discs to listen for early 2011

James Blake, PJ Harvey, Cut Copy lead the way
James Blake, PJ Harvey, Cut Copy lead '11
By DANIEL BROCKMAN | December 29, 2010

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Interview: Tony Clifton

Am I blue?
When comedian Andy Kaufman died 26 years ago, it seemed logical to think that Tony Clifton would be dead too.
By ROB TURBOVSKY | October 19, 2010

Dream Syndicate's Steve Wynn revives a classic

Medicinal properties
At the end of 1983, I was writing for Boston Rock magazine, and in one issue, we predicted the defining releases of the year to come.
By BRETT MILANO | October 12, 2010

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R.E.M. | Fables of the Reconstruction: 25th Anniversary Edition

IRS/Capitol (2010)
From the first three notes that make up the odd riff on "Feeling Gravity's Pull," Fables of the Reconstruction is probably R.E.M.'s weirdest, darkest, and most challenging album.
By RYAN STEWART | July 28, 2010

Reality bites

The singular surrealism of Robyn Hitchcock
At some point or another, the greatest artists are pegged as oddballs, weirdos, freaks. Being a great artist does mean going out on a limb.
By DANIEL BROCKMAN | June 04, 2010

Review: On the road with David Foster Wallace

David Lipsky’s Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself treads lightly in the footsteps of a literary giant
David Foster Wallace had a crush on Alanis Morissette. He drank Diet Rite soda by the case. David Lynch changed him.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN | May 17, 2010

Crossword: ''Schoolyard Pranks: Platinum Edition''

Only for the classiest children
Only for the classiest children
By MATT JONES | May 05, 2010

Alex Chilton, 1950 - 2010

In memoriam
When Alex Chilton had a fatal heart attack while mowing his lawn last week, he was, statistically speaking, just a 59-year-old New Orleans resident, nothing more than an edit on some census forms. What Chilton represented, however, was a true American iconoclastic hero.
By JEFF BREEZE | March 24, 2010

The Big Hurt: Everybody hurting

Warning: Scorpions content
The music industry's response to the Haiti disaster has been pretty great, since it's given some huge names a chance to complete the vital circuit between the public's heartstrings and their wallets.
By DAVID THORPE | February 02, 2010

Do over

The Feelies pick up their legacy
I tried hard to be born earlier, but it didn't work. As a result, I've had to contend with an irritatingly positioned cultural blind spot (roughly 1976–1986) that currently occupies all that open space once filled with childhood memories.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR | November 18, 2009

Risqué management

The Hidden Cameras didn’t mean to turn you on
One of the worst things you can do as a person-who-writes-about-music is to ask an artist which of his songs is his favorite. For one thing, it makes you sound kind of dull. For another, you’re just gonna put the dude in a bad mood.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR | October 28, 2009

Epics in minutes

Sian Alice Group make a lot from a little (of everything)
Rupert Clervaux has made a game out of reading how people dissect his band's sound. As a multi-instrumentalist in the London collective Sian Alice Group (who come to the Middle East on Monday), he hears the whole spectrum of genres.
By REYAN ALI | October 13, 2009

Major laser

Naked Raygun assess their legacy
Of Naked Raygun's many conquests, perhaps their greatest was impressing Steve Albini. In a 1992 Maximumrocknroll interview, Albini — the sharp-tongued musician/producer who, among other things, once dismissed Nirvana as "R.E.M. with a fuzzbox" and the Pixies as "blandly entertaining college rock" — offered a rare public endorsement.
By REYAN ALI | August 31, 2009