“I don’t really know how else to regard it, except that some energy force in the universe pulled the four of us together to write pop music for the particular moment that we were there doing it,” says ...

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 ...

R.E.M. split up for good in 2011, but they are now rereleasing Up as a deluxe 25th-anniversary edition featuring remastered audio, a 12-song set they played on the Party of Five set in 1999, the ...

"Everybody Hurts." "Man on the Moon." "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)." You'll hear those R.E.M. songs and more Saturday, Oct. 21 when founding member Mike Mills joins the ...

Legendary Athens rock group R.E.M. was recently inducted into Songwriters Hall of Fame 17 years after they entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. “It is always a pleasure to hear the poetry and ...

All four original members of R.E.M. performed together for the first time since 1997 at the Songwriters Hall of Fame induction ceremony Thursday night, with a rendition of their 1991 Grammy-winning ...

The members of R.E.M., seen at the 1995 MTV Video Music Awards, were inducted Thursday into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. (Bebeto Matthews / Associated Press) Thirteen years after R.E.M. disbanded, ...

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 ...