NEW YORK — 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 challenging ...

That record was New Adventure In Hi-Fi, which Yorke himself said contained R.E.M.’s “best song of their career.” He also described how much R.E.M. has impacted him since he discovered the band in the ...

There were few bands on the planet bigger than R.E.M. in the mid-Nineties. Their popularity grew every year in the Eighties before they went supernova the following decade thanks to hits like “Losing ...

Like Murmur, Reckoning was co-produced by Mitch Easter and Don Dixon, and recorded at Reflection Sound studio in Charlotte, North Carolina. The album featured melodic alt-rock tunes showcasing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You’d be foolish to try and predict what ideas will take off in 2026, but few American bands are as bankable as R.E.M. Hell, this ...

Will R.E.M. get together again? It's been a year since the four founding members of the Athens-based band reunited on stage for a song, "Pretty Persuasion", at the 40-Watt with Michael Shannon and ...