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It’s My Life: Peter Holsapple on the Life and Death of the Continental Drifters

PopMatters Staff / 13 October 2015

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.

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Counterbalance: The dB’s’ ‘Stands for Decibels’

Jason Mendelsohn and Eric Klinger / 19 December 2014

They say the 235th most acclaimed album of all time gets off on frustration, but I know you've got an explanation. The 1981 debut from a power-pop legend is this week's Counterbalance. Bad reputation? Not hardly.

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