R.E.M. backstage at Merlyn's Club in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1981. From left, standing: Peter Buck, Michael Stipe and Bill Berry. In the foreground, Mike Mills. (Hank Grebe) Review by John Williams R.E ...

R.E.M's Bill Berry became emotional as he reflected on his decision to leave the band at the height of their success. Berry and fellow University of Georgia students Michael Stipe, Peter Buck and Mike ...

R.E.M. produced quite a bit of music across their 31-year career: 15 studio albums, a rarities compilation and an EP, along with multiple live LPs, soundtrack cuts and hits sets. While the Athens, Ga.

R.E.M. just keep reuniting. Thursday night, Feb. 27, the band that has repeatedly insisted they’ll never do a full-fledged reunion, took the stage at the 40 Watt Club in Athens, Georgia to perform ...

And now, Reckoning is available to purchase as a special reissue, courtesy of Interscope Records. The so-called Definitive Sound Series One-Step edition delivers "an exceptional audiophile ...

For many, the band R.E.M. represents an idea of the counterculture. The group rose to fame in the 1990s via methods outside the traditional avenues. Word of mouth, college radios, and bootlegged tapes ...

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, ...

LISTEN: R.E.M. might be disbanded, but their music endures. GPB's Kristi York Wooten goes behind the scenes with musicians who perform songs from the legendary Georgia band's catalog. R.E.M.'s music ...

Anthony Mason is a senior culture and senior national correspondent for CBS News. He has been a frequent contributor to "CBS Sunday Morning." Vice President of Growth & Engagement at CBS News and ...

The musicians in front of you are not the humans who originated the music, and that matters because the energy is not the same . . . That might have been part of my personal resistance, that my ...