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R.E.M.: Every goodbye ain’t quite gone

Five weeks after announcing their breakup after a 31-year career, the trailblazing band from Athens, Ga., is releasing Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage, a retrospective spanning the band’s days as a darling of college dorm dwellers in the indie era and its time in arena mode, as one of the biggest bands in the world (It’s available for preorder through Amazon). More than just a random collection of odds and sods, the two-CD set is a righteous sampling of their most popular tracks, some we’d frankly forgotten, and three new tracks recorded this summer with Jacknife Lee at the boards. Check the video below. 

They’re gone five weeks and we miss ‘em already.

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Photo: R.E.M./Athens Ltd.