By Gil Kaufman 04.21.98 Sonicnet To hear studio manager Chris Lyon tell it, R.E.M.’s newest music takes the Athens, Ga., supergroup in a surprisingly new direction, one tainted with a more modern edge that includes electronic sounds and exotic instruments. “I was surprised, because the songs sound like R.E.M. songs, but they’re not presented in [...]
By Linda Laban 04.02.98 Request Line Seattle groups (super or otherwise) being very much a thing of the past, it was surprising that, in 1997, an instrumental behemoth such as Tuatara got a veritable thumbs-up internationally for their debut album Breaking The Ethers. Officially, Tuatara includes Screaming Trees’ drummer Barrett Martin, REM guitarist Peter Buck, [...]
By James Sullivan 04.02.98 San Francisco Chronicle The dinosaurs are going home. Sometime in the next few days at San Francisco’s Toast Studios, the two plastic dinosaurs that have brought considerable luck to R.E.M. recording sessions for 18 years will be packed up, as the world-class band brings its two-month stay to a quiet close. [...]