Here’s a book pitch: A sequel to Michael Azerrad’s venerable Our Band Could Be Your Life, in which the story of American indie rock’s roots in the ’80s continues by delving into the boom and bust of ...
Litt finally got that second chance in revisiting and improving the sound of Monster. For the album's 25th anniversary deluxe edition reissue, which was recently released, he did a new remix that ...
“Nah, you guys shouldn’t leave yet! Let’s jam!” A party-worn Bill Berry ushers the two burned-out but happy SPIN writers into a side room of his house, away from the few straggling survivors of his ...
The post Every R.E.M. Album Ranked From Worst to Best appeared first on Consequence. It’s been over 40 years since R.E.M. played their first show, a friend’s birthday party in an abandoned church in ...
35 years ago, alt-rock band R.E.M. released their debut album, “Murmur.” Six years later, Rolling Stone Magazine called them “America’s Best Rock & Roll Band." In 1983, when “Murmur” came out, “Karma ...
R.E.M.'s Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Michael Stipe and Bill Berry at the 2024 Songwriters Hall of Fame induction (photo: Angela Weiss / AFP via Getty Images). R.E.M.’s original four members Michael Stipe, ...
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.'s debut album was perfectly titled, since they were something you first heard in passing more than really saw coming. Moving like ghosts from a different, weirder time where jangles and ...
R.E.M. came out of the underground /alternative music scene. They weren’t part of the American punk revolution, which is probably why I was a relative latecomer to ...
On Thursday morning, Mike Mills told CBS Mornings that it would take "a comet" for R.E.M. to get back together. But on Thursday night, R.E.M. got back together to perform "Losing My Religion," the ...
Rock band R.E.M probably couldn’t predict their early ’90s hit song “Everybody Hurts” would be put to political use in 2019. When it was, they were not happy about it. The episode began on Friday ...
To many fans, “New Adventures in Hi-Fi” represents R.E.M. at its creative peak. The Athens, Georgia-based quartet – singer Michael Stipe, drummer Bill Berry, guitarist Peter Buck and bassist Mike ...