Check out this excellent article from Brooklyn Vegan which looks at the “creative energy” that informed the making of New Adventures in Hi-Fi. To quote Bill Berry from Stereophonic on Film, “Going to soundchecks used to mean, ‘okay, let’s get this over with, and then go have dinner.’ This was actually a time where we could actually do something and be creative.”
Read “R.E.M.’s New Adventures in Hi-Fi at 25: the band’s bittersweet, experimental masterpiece” HERE.