In what has rather selfishly become one of my favorite show-going events of the year lately, Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy and a cast of supremely talented friends brought their touring REM tribute show to Boston’s Royale nightclub. It’s an idea that really took root close to a decade ago, when Shannon and Narducy started enlisting a few friends to do a handful of one-off shows covering albums they considered staples: Modern Lovers and The Smiths and Neil Young records for example. In 2023, they honored the 40th anniversary of Chicago’s Metro and the 40th anniversary of REM’s Murmur, and it went so well they took the act on the road the following year, adding songs from the Georgia legends’ Chronic Town and Reckoning and a few others to round out a full evening&...