NEW YORK (AP) — Twenty-five years ago, an R.E.M. album arrived that didn't sound like a typical R.E.M. album. “Up,” the band's 11th album which dropped in the fall of 1998, was a curious and ...

“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 ...

R.E.M.’s later-era albums don’t often get the respect they deserve. Sure, we love the classic ’80s stuff — especially “Lifes Rich Pageant,” which makes our desert-island shortlist. And we certainly ...

Artists often describe the recording process as a battle, but for guitarist Peter Buck, making R.E.M.’s unlucky 13th album, Around the Sun, was more like war. A very specific war, in fact, and one the ...

It's not often that a band's most commercially successful album bisects a career as cleanly as R.E.M.'s Out of Time does. That monster release, celebrating its 30th anniversary this week, took an ...

That jump into the next decade can trip up a band. R.E.M. had made it through the ‘80s pretty much unscathed, critics fawning over each new release while the public slowly caught up and made the ...

R.E.M. have announced their plans to reissue vinyl adaptations of two long out-of-print titles from the second half of their storied run. On July 14, The Peach State foursome will drop 2004’s Around ...

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 ...

The song was ready. Everything was there: Bass, drums, extra percussion and a smattering of guitars. The country-rock track, recorded over numerous sessions, was ready to appear on R.E.M.’s new album.

NEW YORK (AP) — Twenty-five years ago, an R.E.M. album arrived that didn’t sound like a typical R.E.M. album. “Up,” the band’s 11th album which dropped in the fall of 1998, was a curious and ...