NEW YORK (AP) — Twenty-five years ago, an R.E.M. album arrived that didn't sound like a typical R.E.M. album. “Up,” the band's 11th album which dropped in the fall of 1998, was a curious and ...

With thirty-five years of hindsight, R.E.M.’s Out of Time (released 3/12/91) sounds like even more of a vast stylistic ...

Artists often describe the recording process as a battle, but for guitarist Peter Buck, making R.E.M.’s unlucky 13th album, Around the Sun, was more like war. A very specific war, in fact, and one the ...

R.E.M.’s later-era albums don’t often get the respect they deserve. Sure, we love the classic ’80s stuff — especially “Lifes Rich Pageant,” which makes our desert-island shortlist. And we certainly ...

This third tour of playing R.E.M.’s albums focuses on “Lifes Rich Pageant,” again with the full approval, and maybe the participation, of the original band.

It's not often that a band's most commercially successful album bisects a career as cleanly as R.E.M.'s Out of Time does. That monster release, celebrating its 30th anniversary this week, took an ...

R.E.M. have announced their plans to reissue vinyl adaptations of two long out-of-print titles from the second half of their storied run. On July 14, The Peach State foursome will drop 2004’s Around ...

It happened a year ago, when all four founding members of R.E.M. got on stage together at the 40 Watt. Could it happen again?