For rock fans of a certain age this may be hard to believe, but it’s been more than 40 years since R.E.M. scored their first Billboard Hot 100 hit with “Radio Free Europe.” The scrappy band from ...

On this date in 1983 a debut album dubbed one of the best of all time kickstarted a hall of fame career for one alternative ...

“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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. R.E.M. disbanded back in 2011. But the seminal indie-rock group is back with new five-track EP “Radio Free Europe 2025,”containing ...

The rock band R.E.M. is putting out a special rerelease of its first single, “Radio Free Europe,” to benefit — wait for it — the actual Radio Free Europe. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is among the ...

R.E.M. only played "Shiny Happy People" twice, despite the fact that the song was a Top 10 hit across the board.

The most surprising thing about Peter Ames Carlin’s biography “The Name of This Band is R.E.M.” is how undramatic the story seems. R.E.M., in Mr. Carlin’s telling, is the band that did it right, ...

Will R.E.M. get together again? It's been a year since the four founding members of the Athens-based band reunited on stage for a song, "Pretty Persuasion", at the 40-Watt with Michael Shannon and ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Book Bonus Beat: ...

The actor has been touring with Jason Narducy performing R.E.M. albums in full Bobby Bank/Getty Michael Shannon has been touring with Jason Narducy performing R.E.M. albums in full The star said he's ...