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Around the Sun (2023 Vinyl Reissue)

R.E.M.‘s 2004 album, Around the Sun, reissued here on 180g double vinyl, is somewhat of an outlier in the band’s catalog. It doesn’t feature the same rock and roll intensity as other of many of the ...
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Listen: Circles Around the Sun Continue Hypnotic Survey of the Cosmos with New Skirt-Twirling Release ‘Interludes For The Dead: Vol 2’

In 2015, Neal Casal rallied Dan Horne, Adam MacDougall, and Mark Levy to take inspiration from the Grateful Dead and prepare a set of songs rooted in deep ...
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Revisiting R.E.M.’s ‘Worst’ Album After 19 Trips Around the Sun

Artists often describe the recording process as a battle, but for guitarist Peter Buck, making R.E.M.’s unlucky 13th album, Around the Sun, was more like war. A very specific war, in fact, and one the ...
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Circles Around The Sun Announce ‘Interludes For The Dead, Vol. 2’ to Coincide with Dead & Company’s Golden Gate Celebration

Instrumentalist psych-experimentalist, Circles Around The Sun, have announced the second chapter of their pivotal legacy soundtrack, Interludes for the Dead: Volume II, due in full on November 7, and ...