{"id":27472,"date":"2024-04-29T05:30:35","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T09:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=27472"},"modified":"2024-04-29T13:45:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T17:45:15","slug":"preview-music-to-your-ears-r-e-m-s-reckoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/29\/preview-music-to-your-ears-r-e-m-s-reckoning\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: Music to Your Ears: R.E.M.&#8217;s &#8216;Reckoning&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22629\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/mtt_rem.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/mtt_rem.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/mtt_rem-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/mtt_rem-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>R.E.M. debuted with their <em>Chronic Town<\/em> EP and followed it up with the great <em>Murmur<\/em>. But it was the band&#8217;s second long-player, 1983&#8217;s <em>Reckoning<\/em> that truly broke them nationally. Tracks like &#8220;(Don&#8217;t Go Back to) Rockville&#8221; and &#8220;So. Central Rain&#8221; would quickly gain classic status, and R.E.M. helped usher in a viable alternative (if you will) to the corporate rock that had ruled the airwaves.<\/p>\n<p>In celebration of <em>Reckoning<\/em>&#8216;s 40th(!) anniversary, this month&#8217;s <strong>Music to Your Ears<\/strong> will feature a listening part, LIVE MUSIC PERFORMANCE from Joe Hooten of Tin Roof Echo, and a discussion led by host Bill Kopp (that&#8217;s me) about the album. Don&#8217;t miss it! <strong>This coming Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>WHAT<\/b>: Music to Your Ears Discussion Series<br \/>\n<b>WHO<\/b>: Discussion led by music journalist\/author Bill Kopp with special musical guest JOE HOOTEN<br \/>\n<b>WHERE<\/b>: Asheville Guitar Bar, 122 Riverside Dr., Suite D, Asheville<br \/>\n<b>WHEN<\/b>: Wednesday May 1 @ 7 p.m. \u2013 8:30 p.m. (doors open 6:30) $10 at the door \/ SEATING IS LIMITED<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R.E.M. debuted with their Chronic Town EP and followed it up with the great Murmur. But it was the band&#8217;s second long-player, 1983&#8217;s Reckoning that truly broke them nationally. Tracks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22629,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","cat-1-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27472"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27474,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27472\/revisions\/27474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}