R.E.M. Call It Quits
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REM
For reasons presumably unrelated to Michael Stipe's dick flicks, R.E.M. announced their breakup today. And while we can argue all day about their past decade-plus of output, very few bands -- maybe no bands at all -- have had a greater impact on the last few generations of independent rock music than R.E.M. have. Without them, the music world would ...
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