Posts From Cary Baker

Cheap Trick ‘In Color’: The LP That Put Them on the Map

Cheap Trick broke musical and lyrical boundaries, even defying the look of a rock band with a couple of rock stars and a couple of nerds.

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R.E.M.’s ‘Document’: Not the End of the World, But the End of an Era

The Georgia band’s fifth studio album was the mark of a group spreading its wings, but also leaving something behind.

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The Blasters’ Eponymous 1981 LP: Roots Music Finds Its Place in the Punk Revolution

They came out of Downey, California, mashing together blues, country, rockabilly, jazz and good ol’ rock & roll into something all their own.

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