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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

R.E.M.’s new album began before their previous recording was finished. While the group was mixing Out of Time, they also recorded demos at Prince’s Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen, Minnesota. One ...

I had never done a tour before. Jason nudged me after the Murmur set in Chicago at Metro. Now it’s all I want to do. I’m happy this one is twice as long. The last one was too short. This music is ...