NEW YORK — 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 challenging ...

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?

Like Murmur, Reckoning was co-produced by Mitch Easter and Don Dixon, and recorded at Reflection Sound studio in Charlotte, North Carolina. The album featured melodic alt-rock tunes showcasing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You’d be foolish to try and predict what ideas will take off in 2026, but few American bands are as bankable as R.E.M. Hell, this ...

"Reckoning," which received widespread critical acclaim, featured the single "Don't go Back to Rockville." The album would go on to achieve gold status in the United States. Good morning. I'm Leila ...

That jump into the next decade can trip up a band. R.E.M. had made it through the ‘80s pretty much unscathed, critics fawning over each new release while the public slowly caught up and made the ...

Thirty-five years ago today, R.E.M. released " Losing My Religion ," a song that defined the early '90s, at least in the alt rock genre. The song was the first single from R.E.M.'s seventh album, Out ...

I grew up on the music of Athens, Georgia band R.E.M., so maybe I’m a little biased. They first blew up in the early ‘80s with the catchy song “Radio Free Europe” that was extremely popular around ...