Click to download: Young REM, Feist, Nicola Roberts and halloween mash-ups

Now you can hear REM's earliest tapesOn 15 April 1981, a year after they formed, REM visited Drive-In studio in North Carolina to record demo tracks. After a day's work, the result was the Cassette Set, a tape featuring three songs: Sitting Still, White Tornado and what was to become their first single, Radio Free Europe. Around 400 copies were sent to journalists, venues and labels. Since then, as thepowerofindependenttrucking.blogspot.com puts it, it's been "basically unheard". Until now. Fol...

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