R.E.M. co-founder Bill Berry says he wouldn’t have wanted to make his new album earlier in his career. He’s heard playing drums on The Power and the Glory, the debut LP from the Bad Ends, for which he ...

Ahead of being inducted into the Songwriters Hall Of Fame, R.E.M. vowed that they would never reunite. “It’d never be as good,” Peter Buck said. They must have meant a full-blown reunion, with a new ...

R.E.M. wanted to rock. The delicate, intricate sounds on 1991's Out of Time all but guaranteed that their next album would be bolder, rougher and louder. “We wrote fast songs. But it’s funny: Fast ...

Earlier this month, former R.E.M. lead singer Michael Stipe reiterated to 99X’s Steve Barnes that the band has no plans to reunite for any reason. But that doesn’t stop the Athens-based band from ...

R.E.M. just keep reuniting. Thursday night, Feb. 27, the band that has repeatedly insisted they'll never do a full-fledged ...

Michael Shannon has been a big R.E.M. fan for a long time. The actor has been taking that to the next level lately, as he and veteran musician Jason Narducy are in the midst of an R.E.M. tribute tour ...

Light sleep is the beginning of your sleep cycle and your body's way of winding down. Breathing, heart rate and muscle changes prepare your body for the deeper sleep to come. Light sleep is broken ...

R.E.M. fans were in for a surprise as singer Michael Stipe, bassist Mike Mills, guitarist Peter Buck and drummer Bill Berry all appeared onstage together Thursday night (Feb. 8) for the first time ...

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 ...