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R.E.M. Release Five-Track ‘Radio Free Europe’ Benefit EP Celebrating 75th Anniversary of Service Imperiled By Proposed Trump Cuts
R.E.M. have released the 5-Track 'Radio Free Europe' benefit EP celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the vital news service imperiled by Trump cuts.
have released a five-track benefit EP featuring three remixes of their landmark 1981 debut single, “Radio Free Europe,” ahead of Saturday’s (May 3) World Press Freedom Day. DOGE boss and Tesla/Space X CEO Elon Musk has been unequivocal in his disdain for the services, writing in February on X, “shut them down… Europe is free now… nobody listens to them anymore… it’s just radical left crazy people talking to themselves.” “It’s important to democracy and a fight against authoritarianism that they remain.” All of the proceeds from vinyl sales of the new remix will go to Radio Free Europe, which is still waiting for its frozen April and May funding as it soldiers on with is rapidly dwindling reserves.
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