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.

A 25th-anniversary box set arrives on Nov. 1, including a remix by co-producer Scott Litt that was created in an attempt to offer a simpler production ethic and focus more on the raw songwriting – ...

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. came out of the underground /alternative music scene. They weren’t part of the American punk revolution, which is probably why I was a relative latecomer to ...

In the spring of 1991, R.E.M. had reached the mountaintop. Released on March 12, 1991 — just four months shy of the 10th anniversary of the band’s debut single, “Radio Free Europe” — Out Of Time ...

Recently, bassist Mike Mills joined Darius Rucker and onetime Black Crowes drummer Steve Gorman to form Howl Owl Howl. Like ...

The Athens, Georgia-born rock band R.E.M. changed the way many music fans thought about the possibilities of music. At a time when hair metal and party rock were all the rage, R.E.M. brought a ...

On October 30, 1997 — 20 years ago today — Bill Berry left R.E.M. And on September 21, 2011, R.E.M. announced they were “calling it a day as a band.” During the 14 years between Berry leaving R.E.M.