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(Warner Bros.)   www.warnerbrosrecords.com       In a musical milieu of high stakes and high concepts, every high profile album must have a storyline, and so it is with the more...

(IRS/Ume)   www.universalchronicles.com   So - those were the days, weren't they, my friends? That elusively brief, don't-blink-we-don't-wanna-miss-it point in the early eighties ri more...

(I.R.S./A&M/UMe)   www.universalchronicles.com     April 9, 1984, record stores all over America: For in-the-loop R.E.M. fans, it's a red-letter - as opposed to, one presum more...

(Warner Bros.)   www.warnerbros.com   R.E.M. have been doing a lot of self-reckoning lately. In the past few years, they have released one studio album of new material, along with t more...

(I.R.S./Capitol)   www.capitolrecords.com   In a recent interview with this writer, Steve Wynn confided that his early band The Dream Syndicate's recently reissued 1984 album Medicin more...

(Warner Bros.)   www.warnerbros.com   That sinking feeling that R.E.M. seem to be on about in their new album's title doesn't manifest itself within their most sonically diverse bod more...

(I.R.S./Capitol)   www.capitolrecords.com   And thus we come to the fourth installment of EMI's back catalog overhaul of R.E.M.'s I.R.S. Records era, which, like last year's Fables of more...

  (Whole Note) www.rgstark.com       Texas troubadour R.G. Stark—the initials stand for “receiving genius,” a nod to his years spent toiling in a warehouse more...

(Barsuk)   www.barsuk.com   What exactly is a "Rhumb Line?" Ra Ra Riot's new album, released through indie label moguls Barsuk, forced a search on the good ol' l'internet and produc more...

(Barsuk)     www.barsuk.com     The Syracuse, NY sextet seem to have lost a step or two from their sturdy debut, 2008's The Rhumb Line. While that record proved them to more...