R.E.M. had become one of the world’s biggest bands by the time they arrived at 1996’s New Adventures In Hi-Fi, but they wanted to prove they were still the mavericks who had helped to define US ...
With songs like “Drive” and “Everybody Hurts,” R.E.M. used delicate instrumentation to say something powerful. But on the follow-up Monster, the Athens, Georgia, band chose to get loud. R.E.M. hadn’t ...