In a 2023 New York Times article, R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe opened up about his long-in-the-works solo album. Well, fans ...

Athens, Georgia, took a leap of faith that a folkish, baroque album with hip-hop, mandolins, and shiny, happy bubblegum pop ...

R.E.M’s legacy is certainly enduring, and with the release of two upgraded 180-gram vinyl reissues, fans have the opportunity to once again indulge in the best of the band’s catalog with an entirely ...

It's not often that a band's most commercially successful album bisects a career as cleanly as R.E.M.'s Out of Time does. That monster release, celebrating its 30th anniversary this week, took an ...

That jump into the next decade can trip up a band. R.E.M. had made it through the ‘80s pretty much unscathed, critics fawning over each new release while the public slowly caught up and made the ...

With thirty-five years of hindsight, R.E.M.’s Out of Time (released 3/12/91) sounds like even more of a vast stylistic ...

R.E.M.’s later-era albums don’t often get the respect they deserve. Sure, we love the classic ’80s stuff — especially “Lifes Rich Pageant,” which makes our desert-island shortlist. And we certainly ...

R.E.M. have announced their plans to reissue vinyl adaptations of two long out-of-print titles from the second half of their storied run. On July 14, The Peach State foursome will drop 2004’s Around ...

NEW YORK — Twenty-five years ago, an R.E.M. album arrived that didn't sound like a typical R.E.M. album. “Up,” the band's 11th album which dropped in the fall of 1998, was a curious and challenging ...

This third tour of playing R.E.M.’s albums focuses on “Lifes Rich Pageant,” again with the full approval, and maybe the participation, of the original band.