R.E.M. News

R.E.M. mark the point when post-punk turned into alternative rock. When their first single, "Radio Free Europe," was released in 1981, it sparked a back-to-the-garage movement in the American underground.

Laura Barton offers her picks, hits and misses on Music to help you get through the credit crunch .

CHICAGO - As concepts go, the notion of pop acts going onstage to reprise their best-loved albums front to back isn't particularly new.

R.E.M's Michael Stipe helps bring T In The Park 2008 to a close from the Main Stage.

TheFilter.com has reported that the economic crunch has brought a spike in people listening to sad music online.

A like-minded photographer has chronicled the life of rocker Patti Smith in a very personal documentary, writes Michael Bodey July 16, 2008 PATTI Smith's music doesn't merely engender fans; its power tends to ...

DUE to her allegedly rapacious intake of noxious substances, the general consensus is that Amy Winehouse isn't long for this world.

Caption: Michael Stipe REM 2008 T in the Park music festival - Day 3 Perth and Kinross, Scotland .... Click for the REM Gallery REM have shown their support for U.S. presidential candidate BARACK OBAMA by ...

A music fan with a bit of 'hippie' spirit simply could not stay at home when the summer kicked in.

And we want you to be there. Because we have teamed up with the promoters, Live Nation to offer six of our readers the chance to win a pair of tickets to the must-see gig on August 30th at Twickenham Stadium.

Simply called "The Baseball Project," it features music from Steve Wynn and R.E.M. sideman Scott McCaughey with frontman Peter Buck joining in.

A spry and sharp side project for Steve Wynn and Scott McCaughey to write about the national pastime's distinguished figures, the two frame odes to Satchel Paige, Willie Mays, Jackie Robinson, Jack McDowell, ...

BY AMY ROYSTER KEY WEST, Fla. - Carol Wightman owns Marquesa, one of Key West's nicest boutique hotels.

I've always wanted to see R.E.M. live, so I was jealous when a friend of mine had tickets to the band's recent concert at Madison Square Garden and wouldn't shut up about it.

The members of R.E.M. were all shiny, happy people at their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in March 2007.

By the way, he'd like to introduce R.E.M.'s newest video. R.E.M. have created a video for their song "Man-Sized Wreath," but they hired an ad agency to do it and they introduced it at their New York show on ...

R.E.M. was one of the first popular alternative rock bands, and gained early attention due to Buck's ringing, arpeggiated guitar style and Stipe's unclear vocals.

Dex Bubbles Up Saturday, Jun 28, 2008 6:11AM Jack White calls him the "best kept secrets of the rock 'n' roll underground" - and that's gotta be pretty deep down in the ground.

It's been a long wait for the fans of R.E.M. Not so much to see their band play live, but to grab hold of such a high quality piece of work as this year's " Accelerate .

Well Hello, Dali! Olafur Eliasson is the latest to use the whole big stinkin city as backdrop for installation art , erecting four waterfalls in the East River in an attempt to wake us from our ...