R.E.M. News

When R.E.M. announced their breakup in September 2011, many fans thought it was only a matter of time until they announced a reunion.

Integrity has always been a big part of R.E.M. When the band finally did make the jump to the bigs, some fans, not surprisingly, didn't take it well.

R.E.M announced their break up in September 2011 and in an interview with Rolling Stone Mills said, "We said we're done and we're done.

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This year marks the 25th anniversary of R.E.M.'s landmark "Green" album, released in November 1988 and featuring such stand-outs as "Pop Song 89," "Stand" and "Orange Crush." The anniversary edition of the album includes a second disc with the entire 21-song performance from their concert in Greensboro, N.C. that came at the end of the band's ... (more)

A pair of big-selling 1980s albums from either end of the rock spectrum get the deluxe reissue treatment, one the then-emerging indie-rockers R.E.M. and the other the confirmed pop-rock stars Huey Lewis and the News.

If 1987's Document heralded the moment when R.E.M. started to get away from us, the follow up Green confirmed things: This wasn't going to be our little secret anymore.

Early on in the Robyn Hitchcock tribute show last Thursday at the Fillmore, a smiling Rhett Miller recalled when first saw the British songwriter, opening for R.E.M. in the '80s. "I've loved Robyn Hitchcock ever since I was weird," he said, to scattered applause.

R.E.M. were feeling a little restless when they began recording Green in early 1988.

The Spanish-Italian-Panamanian-Colombian pop singer Miguel Bose has been named the Latin Academy's Person of the Year for 2013.

Hey Listeners, Dash Rip Rock is in town. In fact they're playing at the club below the staton.

Recorded on the band's 1989 Green tour, this 5 track Record Store Day exclusive is not only a fine example of R.E.M.'s craft, but a fitting testament to the retired band's stamp upon the alternative rock scene.

May 1, 2013 - LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- LOS ANGELES, CA - R.E.M. achieved global success with the 1988 release of GREEN , the Athens, Georgia quartet's sixth studio album and first for Warner Bros.

"I've just treated myself to a record of REM's Automatic for the People. Best $22 I've spent in a long time, too.

Though R.E.M. broke up in 2010, that hasn't stopped the band's founding members from occasionally performing together.

When the lights go out at McKinley High, there's speculation that it's a zombie apocalypse or that it's Beyonce 's Superbowl half-time show.

The Stereogum tribute compilation to The Strokes is gone. Ah, the ephemeral nature of Internet content.

"To me, Conor Oberst resembles Patti Smith a great deal," R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe told me in an interview back in 2008.

On Thursday's episode of ' Glee ,' the power goes out at McKinley High, leading to all sorts of acoustic, unplugged fun.

Ben Affleck and Josh Groban are among celebrities who have committed to take the 2013 Live Below the Line challenge in which they will live on $1.50 of food and drink a day to raise awareness about extreme poverty.