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Music: R.E.M. Tries Picking Up the Pace
Published 3/30/2008 by ALAN LIGHT at NYT > Music
R.E.M.’s new album “Accelerate” is a very deliberate response to an internal crisis that Michael Stipe, the group’s singer, described as major.
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