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Q&A with Peter Buck and Mark Eitzel By Aidin Vaziri Rolling Stone The main thing former American Music Club frontman Mark Eitzel learned while working with R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck on the album “West” is that you don’t always have to suffer for your art. “I’ve never worked with anybody who will be in the [...]

By Steve Byrne Detroit Free Press 3 stars No doubt you’ve recently flipped through the many selections in your compact disc collection and pronounced aloud, “I sure do wish I had a worldbeat-tinged, all-instrumental light-jazz album performed by an alternative-rock supergroup!” Fear not, faithful music lover, for Tuatara’s “Breaking the Ethers” has arrived in record [...]