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Pet Shop Boys: Smash: The Singles 1985–2020 Parlophone 0190295021962 (6 LP). 2023. Various prods. and engs. plus Andy Baldwin, remastering eng. Performance ***** Sonics **** It's hardly news that pop can be simultaneously intelligent and fun, or that a music single can be both fun entertainment and a significant cultural artefact. Smash is evidence, as if any more were needed, that the Pet Shop Boys are sublimely good at that particular synthesis.

Record Time is Paste’s monthly column that takes a glimpse into the wide array of new vinyl releases currently flooding record stores around the world, and all the gear that is part of the ongoing surge in vinyl culture. Rather than run down every fresh bit of wax in the marketplace, we’ll home in on special editions, reissues and unusual titles that come across our desk with an interest in discussing both the music and how it is pressed and presented. This month, that includes a boxed set o...

R.E.M. released their final album, 'Collapse Into Now,' on March 7, 2011.

R.E.M. broke up on Sept. 21, 2011.

Collapse Into Now would be their final album. "We were doing the last record, Collapse Into Now. We hadnt made an announcement or anything," guitarist Peter Buck told Rolling Stone in 2016. "We got together, and [singer] Michael [Stipe] said, I think you guys will understand. I need to be away from this for a long time. And I said, How about forever?" Michael looked at [bassist] Mike [Mills], and Mike said, Sounds right to me. Thats how it was decided." Scott McCaughey, whod been a touring m...

R.E.M. released their final album, 'Collapse Into Now,' on March 7, 2011.