“I don’t really know how else to regard it, except that some energy force in the universe pulled the four of us together to write pop music for the particular moment that we were there doing it,” says ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michael Stipe attends Focus Features' "The Phoenician Scheme" New York Premiere at Jazz at Lincoln Center on May 28, 2025 in New ...

R.E.M. hasn't been the same since the 1994 release of "Monster," a glam-rock-inspired misfire that signaled a shift from the group's traditional jangle-folk toward a more experimental, synthetic sound ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tickets are now available for the highly anticipated tour, which includes a stop in Denver on February 11, 2026. The tour ...

What was R.E.M.? It depends on who you are. Outside of U2, the Athens, Ga., quartet was the biggest rock band on the planet in the 1990s. But for those who followed its early career as America’s most ...