
R.E.M. will release a brand-new double live album, entitled R.E.M. Live At The Olympia on October 27th, 2009 via Warner Bros. Records. The two-CD set, produced by Jacknife Lee, features 39 songs that capture the best moments from the band’s 2007 “working rehearsals” at Dublin’s fabled Olympia club where singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, and bassist Mike Mills tested out new songs for R.E.M.’s 2008 studio album Accelerate.
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Record Label: Monofonus Press
Genre: Psych Rock/New Wave
Psych rock can suffer when it’s pretentiously introverted. Diagonals benefit by not being trapped in their own head – in fact, their “heady” music is nicely poppy and expansive, with driving guitars and impossibly bright hooks.
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