Michael Stipe has said that REM never recorded one of the best albums of all time. The frontman of the group, who announced their split in September, told ShortList that he failed in his childhood ...

REM have slammed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for using their music at one of his rallies. Trump had used the alt-rock group's 1987 hit 'It's the End of the World as We Know It (And ...

Every REM album since 1994's disappointing Monster has been described by one critic or another as a 'return to form'. Personally, I'm not convinced that the band are capable of making another album as ...

As part of a new series documenting notable community events from bygone eras, the San Antonio Office of Preservation released a fun piece of music trivia from San Antonio's collective memory bank. In ...

Having been one of the trailblazers of America's mid-Eighties alternative rock movement, growing a faithful following through college radio and endless touring, REM had had it moderately large with ...

The stunning, avant-garde Casa da Musica, designed by Rem Koolhaas, opened last week in Porto, Portugal, with a 1,300-seat hall geared for both electronic and classical music. It looks like a rock for ...

R.E.M. wants President Donald Trump’s hands off their music, thank you very much. The publisher of the rock band asked Twitter to remove a video Trump tweeted of his State of the Union speech that ...

Michael Stipe, Peter Buck and Mike Mills broke up in 2011, and the last time all four members played onstage together – Bill Berry left in 1997 – was in 2007. But entrance into the who’s who of music ...

This morning we read an effusive article about REM’s performance at Langerado. The writer, Leslie Gray Streeter, described the show as “energetic,” and declared that their performance was “the lovely, ...