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 ...

For a while, it seemed like R.E.M. would never emerge from their status as underground rock heroes into the mainstream. Once they made that jump, however, they routinely delivered songs that did very ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

To many fans, “New Adventures in Hi-Fi” represents R.E.M. at its creative peak. The Athens, Georgia-based quartet – singer Michael Stipe, drummer Bill Berry, guitarist Peter Buck and bassist Mike ...

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 ...