Brace Yourself: An Interview With Allen Thompson
Two members of Allen Thompson's band broke their backs last year. Brace yourself for their new sound.
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It’s My Life: Peter Holsapple on the Life and Death of the Continental Drifters
Peter Holsapple made some of the best records of the 1980s with the dB's. Then he joined and left R.E.M. Then he joined the Continental Drifters by accident and made some of the music he considers the most important of his life.
What Will We Become? R.E.M.’s “Driver 8”
In 2008 Michael Stipe introduced "Driver 8" as "a song that represents the dream of the United States of America and what it may become in the next three days." What did he mean, and has that dream come true?