Finding the best R.E.M. album is easy at first because you can quickly separate the wheat from the chaff. There are very few meh R.E.M. albums. They’re either phenomenal or terrible. But the thing about… Read More »What’s the Best R.E.M. Album?
In the mid-1980s, Athens, Ga. was the hippest place in the country. The music world had its ears pinned to the small university town, waiting for the next big thing to come storming out of… Read More »Cool Town – Grace Elizabeth Hale
In 1998, R.E.M. released Up, their first album without drummer Bill Berry. On the album was an electronic track called “Hope” that had a memorable riff featured throughout the song. Here’s a snippet of the song:… Read More »Did U2’s ‘Levitate’ Rip Off R.E.M.’s ‘Hope’? Song Plagiarism
