Released on September 9, 1996, R.E.M.'s New Adventures In Hi-Fi might be the band's last great album ...

Few bands break up as gracefully as R.E.M. The alt-rock band called it quits in September 2011, writing on their website, “We walk away with a great sense of gratitude, of finality, and of ...

On August 24, 1982, R.E.M. released their debut EP, “Chronic Town.” Even today, it’s difficult to categorize the five-song release: Bookended by the ringing, yearning “Wolves, Lower” and the ...

R.E.M. built a following partly through their defiantly anti-commercial stance during the image-driven '80s, so it may have come as something of a surprise when the band agreed to release a collection ...

Will R.E.M. get together again? It's been a year since the four founding members of the Athens-based band reunited on stage for a song, "Pretty Persuasion", at the 40-Watt with Michael Shannon and ...

During the peak of their breakthrough fame, REM dropped 'Shiny Happy People' in 1991, which the band always expressed a ...

R.E.M. may not be there when you want them. But the band finds a way to pop up exactly when they are needed. Whether that entails helping fans to emotionally cope with a global pandemic or other ...

Michael Stipe was dirty, when I first saw him. His band, R.E.M., was playing in Piedmont Park, in Atlanta, with another band called Pylon. Both bands were from Athens, though not yet famously so. They ...

For Record Store Day today, R.E.M. is releasing a limited-edition four-LP collection, “Unplugged: The Complete 1991 and 2001 Sessions.” Recorded a decade apart, the two shows have striking differences ...