New Adventures In Hi-Fi Turns 20

You can more or less divide R.E.M.’s career into three chapters. There’s the five-album run beginning with 1983’s Murmur and ending with 1987’s Document, the near-unimpeachable stretch on I.R.S. Records when R.E.M. established their immediately identifiable, jangly college-rock sound. Then 1988’s Green came out on Warner Bros., and the band began their ascension into full-blown […]

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