“Reckoning was a chance to turn up the volume, tear up the rule book, and instead capture R.E.M.’s on-stage mojo.” – Don Dixon (producer, Reckoning)
My relationship with Reckoning began roughly twenty years ago via a dubbed cassette copy I recorded off my friend’s older brother’s vinyl LP.  The flip side of the tape was Lifes [...]

Beginning last year with Murmur, the R.E.M. catalog is once again getting the redux treatment — up next, Reckoning (more on that next week).  Listening the reissue I’ve been digging out my IRS-era vinyl including Lifes Rich Pageant.  On it, with Mike Mills on lead vocals, the band covers “Superman” by The Clique, a Texas [...]

An early R.E.M. interview, backstage, with a very young Michael Stipe and Peter Buck post-show, at the Skyway New York. 12/10/83 on Real George’s Backroom.
Related: Sevens (Politiko) :: Randy Newman- Burn On and R.E.M. – Cuyahoga
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(Sevens, a new feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song. From now through the election, Sevens will focus on political songs)

While the environment shouldn’t seem like a political issue, it has become one of the nastier ones of the past half century. The conflict between capitalism and conservation [...]

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Don’t let anyone ever tell you that good blogging ain’t a two way street. It is. One recent example are the reader comments from an AD post, on R.E.M., from last Fall (REM :: Wrangling In The Monster). It was because of these comments that I placed my, post-Bill Berry, skepticism [...]

Athens, GA: Earlier this Fall, R.E.M. were at work on their next, as of yet untitled, album in a 19th century Athens chapel that had been carefully converted into a makeshift studio. Those familiar with R.E.M./Athens lore will note this apparent return-to-roots approach…but sorry, no Bill Berry.
The news of R.E.M. again gearing up [...]