the 1980s administration of President Ronald Reagan. The track "Man-Sized Wreath" from the band's new album "Accelerate" attacks President George W. B...
Last month we found out that R.E.M. would release a new record, their fifteenth studio album to date, and that it would be called Collapse Into Now. I...
The track already had a lyric video, but now R.E.M.'s "Mine Smell Like Honey" has a proper music video. Dominic DeJoseph directed the clip, which uses...
Pitchfork.tv. Also below and at Pitchfork.tv, check out director Lance Bangs' video for "Alligator Aviator Autopilot Antimatter", R.E.M.'s collaborati...
After making a "statement" with 2008's rocking "Accelerate," R.E.M. had broader designs for its 15th studio album, "Collapse Into Now." "With 'Acceler...
R.E.M. commissioned a different director to make a video for each Collapse Into Now track. So far we've seen treatments for "Überlin," "Mine Smell Lik...
tracking sessions at New Orlean's The Music Shed and Berlin's Hansa; mixing at Nashville's Blackbird, as well as one additional vocal session with Sti...
In a new interview with Salon, R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe opens up about his band's surprise retirement. R.E.M. put out a well-received album earli...
group made up of Athens musicians, to make a stand against America's biggest retailer. The development that's being protested is a proposed "building ...
recorded a new protest song with the help of a collection of Athens, GA-bred musicians. The single, "After it's Gone," was inspired by the threat of a...
A press release announced today that Big Star's seminal album Third will be performed in its entirety at SXSW. The album will be performed by Big Star...
R.E.M. bassist Mike Mills, Let's Active guitarist Mitch Easter, guitarist Chris Stamey and pianist Charles Cleaver will help founding Big Star drummer...
As previously reported, R.E.M., Brute (Widespread Panic featuring Vic Chesnutt), The Whigs, Patterson Hood, Dead Confederate, Futurebirds and many oth...
Tweet It was unlikely that the members of R.E.M. would stay quiet for long following the band's recent split. Peter Buck looks likely to beat Michael ...
An previous Blitzen Trapper cover of "Feel" Members of R.E.M. and Big Star sat in with Blitzen Trapper at Austin's Subb's on Saturday night during SXS...
The digital archivist who restored the singles catalogs of the Smiths, Joy Division and New Order in a series of blog projects is being strongly disco...
R.E.M., Mumford & Sons and Fleet Foxes will just be a few of the major names on the new charity compilation, Rhythms Del Mundo: Africa. The album is t...
16 Photos » Last week, we ranked the work of Pearl Jam, from worst to best, as part of our new regular feature Counting Down. This week, we're taking ...
16 Photos » Last week, we ranked the work of Pearl Jam, from worst to best, as part of our new regular feature Counting Down. This week, we're taking ...
On September 25, R.E.M. will release the next reissue in their line of 25th anniversary editions, for 1987's Document. A remastered and expanded 2xCD ...
unreleased Work tour concert, recorded live in Utrecht, Holland - September 14, 1987) 01 "Finest Worksong" 02 "These Days" 03 "Lightnin' Hopkins" 04 "...
Though R.E.M.'s days of touring and recording are over, Michael Stipe and company are staying alive through a series of 25th anniversary reissues that...
R.E.M. called it quits last year, but they're not about to let fans forget about them. They'll be reissuing Document on Sept. 25, and beginning today ...
R.E.M. are less than pleased that Fox News used "Losing My Religion" to soundtrack their coverage of the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday. ...
performance opening performance. The set primarily focused on material from Missing Cats' new album Larry Brown Amen. However, at the end of the show ...
City Winery will host Joseph Arthur's 'Where Is My Van' fundraiser. The musician/painter's van was recently stolen, and Arthur now has to recoup the c...
We've known for some time that former R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck has been readying his first solo album, and now it's official. In an entertaining po...
What has Michael Stipe been up to since R.E.M. called it quits last year? Well, we haven't heard much, but it was recently announced on the band's web...
The new music video for R.E.M.'s "Blue", a track from their final album Collapse Into Now, connects some interesting pop-cultural dots. Last year, Jam...
It's hard to say why this is just surfacing now, but the movie star and conceptual joker James Franco directed a video for "Blue," a Patti Smith colla...
A year and a half after the release of Collapse Into Now and the subsequent breakup of R.E.M., a new video has been released from Collapse for "Blue,"...
Before the band broke up, R.E.M. somehow ended up working with James Franco on two never-released videos from their final studio album Collapse Into N...
Last month, we found out that James Franco collaborated with R.E.M. for not one, but two clips in a film project for the band's last album, Collapse I...
The Skinheads Bowling," "The History Of Utah" and other favorites, will celebrate their 30th anniversary in 2013 with a new album, La Costa Perdida. C...
Doesn't this song feel good today? The 1987 hit single from Document was temporarily banned from Clear Channel radio stations in the wake of 9/11, alo...
Although R.E.M. might have called it quits, guitarist Peter Buck and bassist Mike Mills kept its spirit alive at Buck's Todos Santos music festival. D...
Here's an oddly plausible scenario for you: After the Postal Service reunion runs its course, Ben Gibbard does an Audioslave thing with the non-Stipe ...
You Are the Everything from vivian johnson on Vimeo. Ben Gibbard and Peter Buck have gifted fans with a rendition of an R.E.M. tune before, but the pa...
R.E.M. is set to release a two-disc deluxe version of its major-label breakthrough album, Green, via Rhino Records on May 14. The 25th anniversary edi...
R.E.M.'s series of 25th anniversary reissues continues May 14 with a re-release of the band's 1988 major label breakthrough, Green. The album, which w...
R.E.M. in 1988. Courtesy Green PR R.E.M.'s beloved sixth studio album, Green, will receive the 25th anniversary deluxe treatment in a new two-disc edi...
RELATED CONTENTView Photo R.E.M. Celebrate 25th Anniversary of 'Green' with Deluxe Reissue R.E.M.'s beloved sixth studio album, Green, will receive th...
The song may share a name with a certain legendary Georgia rock band, but "R.E.M.," the new track from the heavy-hearted Mississippi rapper and produc...
Mississippi rapper Big K.R.I.T. is prepping a new release called King Remembered in Time. Today he released the video for a new one called "R.E.M.", a...
(Jayhawks, Joe Henry) and Jim Boquist (Son Volt, Golden Smog) (assisted by Paul Westerberg on guitar) shining their considerable talents on Slim's "Co...
On May 14, R.E.M. will reissue their 1988 major label breakthrough, Green, via Rhino. Over on Pitchfork Advance, we're streaming an almost hour-long, ...
R.E.M. Courtesy of Warner Bros. Click to listen to R.E.M.'s 'Orange Crush (Live)' R.E.M. were feeling a little restless when they began recording Gree...
Related ContentView Photo R.E.M. Reflect on 'Green' on the Album's 25th AnniversaryView Photo R.E.M. Reflect on 'Green' on the Album's 25th Anniversar...
