Blog: EARVOLUTION

By: David Schultz A couple weeks back, Michael Stipe announced the dissolution of R.E.M., proclaiming that “all things must end” and bringing a sense of closure to the storied career of the Athens, Georgia band that helped define alternative rock in the late Eighties and early Nineties. The band’s formal pronouncement accomplished something that R.E.M. had been unable to achieve in the past five