When Boston quartet Mission of Burma broke up in 1983, the band had a modicum of fans, but its legend didn't snowball until the years following its dissolution. Eventually, artists like Moby and R.E.M. would pay homage to the work of guitarist Roger Miller, bassist Clint Conley, drummer Peter Prescott, and tape manipulator and sound engineer Martin Swope by covering "That's When I Reach for My Revolver" and "Academy Fight Song." And the band's hard-charging, dissonant, catchy take on guitar rock has reverberated through the last two decades of... More >>>