
If you were an obsessed young rock fan in the pre-Internet days, you scrounged for information on new bands any way you could. Magazines, The Trouser Press Guide To New Wave Records , opening acts at shows - all potential links to the next epiphany. Another way to look for bands was to connect the dots: so if you were an R.E.M. fan, you found out about the Replacements because Peter Buck played the solo on "I Will Dare," and found out about Pylon or the dB's because R.E.M. covered them. I got turned on [...]