R.E.M.’s Current Tour May Test Its Mainstream Mettle
Friday, March 3rd, 1989By David Silverman
03.03.89
Chicago Tribune
It’s a time of reckoning for R.E.M.
After two platinum albums and years as critics’ darlings and kings of the alternative and college circuits, are they ready to take a place among music’s upper class? And are they capable of taking that place?
When R.E.M. takes the stage Monday night at the Rosemont Horizon, [...]