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Archive for April, 1997

Way Out ‘West’

Wednesday, April 30th, 1997

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 studio and just [...]

Sound Judgement: Tuatara “Breaking the Ethers”

Sunday, April 13th, 1997

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 stores to fulfill [...]