The Ultimate Music Guide

The Ultimate Music Guide: REM

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Uncut presents REM: The Ultimate Music Guide. In the wake of their split, we celebrate the greatest American rock band of the past 30 years.

An essential 148-page document, The Ultimate Music Guide uncovers the whole remarkable story of REM. We dig out classic interviews, from the archives of NME and Melody Maker, unseen for years. Uncut's team contribute perceptive new essays on every REM album, unearth dozens of rare photos, and piece together a complete picture of this most enigmatic and enduring of bands. REM: The Ultimate Music Guide - this one goes out to the one we love!

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July 2013

ARE WE ROLLING? Before meeting him for the first time recently for the feature in this month's issue, I read a lot of interviews with Tame Impala's Kevin Parker in which he was variously cast as a brooding outsider, a sullen introvert, generally moody, an outcast, someone on the edge of things, inclined to solitary misery. In at least one magazine article, the words "tortured" and "genius" appeared in close proximity to describe him. I kept imagining him in the studio, sitting in a sandbox, like Brian Wilson, sadly damaged.

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