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Sep 21, 2011 · The story of REM is in many ways the story of alternative rock in the USA. They emerged in the early 1980s from the college radio scene - scrappy and lo-fi, abrasive but somehow beautiful -...
There wasn’t a big distinction in my circles. They were seen as like the big brother act who’d been around a little longer and broken through first and had earned their right to expand into mature themes. Most of us into those bands still regarded Automatic very highly as a breakthrough alternative album alongside Nevermind
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Sep 22, 2011 · Parade. Sep 22, 2011. It’s the end of REM as we know it. After 30 years of making music, Grammy-winning rock group REM announced on its website Wednesday that they are calling it quits....
Sep 22, 2011 · They taught the world of alternative rock (back when it was called college rock) how to grow old with dignity. REM's career can be seen as a gradual process of opening up.
Feb 15, 2023 · This week on SouthBound, host Tommy Tomlinson talks to Nic Brown, who as a teenager was the drummer for the alt-rock band Athenaeum back in the ‘90s. Now he’s a writing professor at Clemson.
Jan 4, 2024 · Popular with North America’s college rock network, the band’s sophomore release, 1984’s Reckoning, was recorded in just 12 days, but its contents – which vacillated from the yearning...
REM: The Story of One of the Most Influential Alternative Rock Bands. American alternative rock band formed in 1980 in Athens, Georgia. Drummer: Bill Berry. Guitarist: Peter Buck. Bassist: Mike Mills. Vocalist: Michael Stipe. All four were University of Georgia students who met at a friend’s birthday party.
