R.E.M. produced quite a bit of music across their 31-year career: 15 studio albums, a rarities compilation and an EP, along with multiple live LPs, soundtrack cuts and hits sets. While the Athens, Ga.

The post Every R.E.M. Album Ranked From Worst to Best appeared first on Consequence. It’s been over 40 years since R.E.M. played their first show, a friend’s birthday party in an abandoned church in ...

R.E.M.’s new album began before their previous recording was finished. While the group was mixing Out of Time, they also recorded demos at Prince’s Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen, Minnesota. One ...

When a band writes and records a song about a famous person, and it becomes one of their signature hits, do we really need them to record a second song about the same person? In the case of R.E.M. and ...

There were few bands on the planet bigger than R.E.M. in the mid-Nineties. Their popularity grew every year in the Eighties before they went supernova the following decade thanks to hits like “Losing ...

In recent weeks, R.E.M. and their fans have had much to commemorate and celebrate. Early March marked the 10th anniversary of the band’s final studio album, “Collapse Into Now,” while just days later ...

Michael Stipe finally put to rest a nearly four-decade-long struggle to understand just what he's singing in R.E.M.'s 1987 song "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)." Over the ...

You've likely heard R.E.M.'s "Losing My Religion" hundreds or thousands of times in your lifetime and almost always naturally assumed it was an autobiographical tale penned by singer Michael Stipe.

The Monkees and R.E.M. released very different music; however, Michael Stipe revealed The Monkees inspired a popular R.E.M. song. He discussed why The Monkees and other 1960s bands meant so much to ...