Thirty years ago, R.E.M. released their loud, glam rock masterpiece Monster. By 1994, they observed alternative music dominate popular culture, a movement they helped lift from the underground with groundbreaking albums like Automatic for the People, Out of Time, Green, and Document. In fact, the slope of obscure college radio bands steepened with the Athens, […]
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