Eisen asked Leary if he was originally asked to star in the video for the single ‘Shiny Happy People’.

Final Straw” from Around the Sun and “Bad Day,” a track orignally written during Ronald Reagan’s presidency and later released on the band’s 2003 compilation In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988–2003, ...

REM's early career wasn't anywhere near as filled with success as their output in the late-1980s and '90s, but the band may not have existed if it was.

Oscar-nominated actor Shannon and guitarist Jason Narducy jammed with Bob Mould Band, Superchunk and Wilco members at Turner Hall Ballroom Thursday.

Guitarist Peter Buck, drummer Bill Berry, bassist Mike Mills and lead singer Michael Stipe took the stage with the tribute band Thursday in Athens to give fans a pleasant surprise. This was the ...

Michael Stipe’s group released 'Accelerate', a record explicitly pitched as a back-to-basics guitar record but he had one favourite song.

Guests at Athens’ 40 Watt Club were in for quite the treat Thursday night.

During the brief but electrifying set, R.E.M. performed their 1984 classic Pretty Persuasion. Stipe handled lead vocals, Berry played tambourine, Mills contributed backing vocals, and Buck delivered ...

The Tibet House Benefit returned to Carnegie Hall for its 38th annual edition on Monday night (3/3), celebrating the Year of ...

In the '90s, Peter Buck moved to Seattle, where he recruited musicians for the touring band. R.E.M recorded here and Michael Stipe came up with the lyrics to one of the band's biggest hits here.

This legendary alternative rock band has only had two public performances since it officially retired in 2011.

Following an ultra-rare, impromptu full-band reunion of R.E.M. ‘s original four members last month in Athens, Ga., as part of ...