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Pop-O-Rama #3!!!

October 28, 2019October 30, 2019 David Bash 0 Comments Ape House Records, Cherry Red Records, Craft Recordings, Dukes of Stratosphear, Esoteric Recordings, International Pop Overthrow, International Pop Overthrow festival, Monster, Mustard, Psurroundabout Ride, R.E.M., R.E.M. Monster, Ron Wood Mustard, Roy Wood, XTC

International Pop Overthrow’s David Bash digs into three boffo new pop reissues

Folk Rock

Joseph Arthur Comes Back to the World

October 25, 2019October 28, 2019 Katherine Yeske Taylor 1 Comment 2019, Alejandro Escovedo, Arthur Buck, Ben Harper, Better Than Ezra, Big City Secrets, Come Back World, Come to where I'm grom, Greg Dulli, Jesse Malin, Joseph Arthur, Kevin Griffin, Marc Cohn, Peter Buck, R.E.M., Robyn Hitchcock, Rosanna Arquette

The New York singer-songwriter gets personal on his 14th studio album

Experimental Pop Post-Punk

ALBUMS: The Monochrome Set Create a Modest Masterpiece with Fabula Mendax

October 21, 2019October 24, 2019 Tim Sommer 0 Comments Adam and the Ants, Fables of the Reconstruction, Fabula Mendax, Josef K, Monochrome Set, R.E.M., Savage Republic, Scott Walker, Tapete Records, The Smiths

Here’s a wonderful surprise: the fifteenth studio album from the exotic, delicate, tumbling, shimmering and shiny Monochrome Set, is one of the very best albums of 2019

Alternative Rock Pop Rock

Why You Trying To Second Guess It?: R.E.M.’s Reckoning at 35

October 9, 2019October 11, 2019 Eric Davidson 0 Comments 1984, Athens, Begin the Begin: REM's Early Years, Bill Berry, binaural, Fables of Reconstruction, IRS Records, Joe Boyd, Let's Active, Michael Stipe, Mike Mills, Mitch Easter, Peter Buck, R.E.M., Reckoning, Robert Dean Lurie

Saluting the follow-up to the Athens band’s legendary debut, and a chat with Begin the Begin author, Robert Dean Lurie, about the band circa 1984

Alternative Rock

Devastation At Last, Finally We Meet: Grant Lee Buffalo’s Mighty Joe Moon at 25

September 23, 2019September 26, 2019 Jason Perri 2 Comments 1994, 25th Anniversary, Grant Lee Buffalo, Grant Lee Phillips, Joey Peters, Michael Stipe, Mighty Joe Moon, Netherworld Orange, Paul Kimble, Pistol Star, R.E.M., RNR Globe exclusive

The RNR Globe chats exclusively with bassist Paul Kimble on the legacy of the band’s sophomore masterpiece

Alternative Rock Southern Rock

Fly Me To The Moon: A Quick Hello with Kevin Kinney of Drivin N’ Cryin

July 18, 2019July 22, 2019 Ron Hart 0 Comments Allman Brothers Band, Atlanta, Drivin' N Cryin', Ian McLagan, Kevin Kinney, Mitch Easter, R.E.M.

Watch an exclusive live session from the legendary Georgia band in the wake of a new album, Live The Love Beautiful

Indie Rock Power Pop

ALBUMS: The Minus 5 Is Back!

July 10, 2019July 10, 2019 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments Beatles, Beck, Corin Tucker, Jeff Tweedy, Peter Buck, R.E.M., Scott McCaughey, Steve Wynn, Stroke Manor, The Minus 5, Yep Roc

Scott McCaughey beats the odds with Stroke Manor

Pop Rock

R.E.M. at the BEEB

December 1, 2018 John Everhart 1 Comment BBC Radio 2, Bill Berry, Joey Waronker, Ken Stringfellow, Michael Stipe, Mike Mills, Peter Buck, R.E.M., Scott McCaughey

Tracing the triumphant live path of one of America’s greatest bands

Pop Rock

The Acceptable Edge of the Unacceptable Evolves

November 17, 2018November 18, 2018 John Everhart 0 Comments 1988, 30th Anniversary, Bill Berry, Michael Stipe, Mike Mills, Peter Buck, R.E.M.

R.E.M.’s Green at 30

Pop Rock

At Their Most Beautiful

November 9, 2018November 9, 2018 John Everhart 2 Comments 1998, 20th Anniversary, Bill Berry, Michael Stipe, Mike Mills, Peter Buck, R.E.M.

R.E.M.’s Up at 20

Country and/or Western

I Hear You Singing in the Wire

November 3, 2018November 3, 2018 Mitchell Cohen 1 Comment 1968, 50th anniversary, Glen Campbell, Guns 'N' Roses, Jimmy Webb, R.E.M.

Glen Campbell’s Jimmy Webb-penned signature hit “Wichita Lineman” turns 50