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.

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 ...

A 25th-anniversary box set arrives on Nov. 1, including a remix by co-producer Scott Litt that was created in an attempt to offer a simpler production ethic and focus more on the raw songwriting – ...

The Monkees and R.E.M. released very different music; however, Michael Stipe revealed The Monkees inspired a popular R.E.M. song. He discussed why The Monkees and other 1960s bands meant so much to ...

Inspiration can come from the strangest, saddest, and scariest places, including this odd conspiracy theory that inspired Michael Stipe to write the classic R.E.M. song, “What’s the Frequency, Kenneth ...

Instead of using a pre-existing song from The Rembrandts catalog, the team behind Friends worked with the band members, Phil Solem and Danny Wilde, to craft the lyrics and the tune to the hit song.

The Athens, Georgia-born rock band R.E.M. changed the way many music fans thought about the possibilities of music. At a time when hair metal and party rock were all the rage, R.E.M. brought a ...

There may be no toilet paper available and a general sense of doom prevailing across the planet, but at least music fans will go out singing. Athens, Ga. band R.E.M.‘s 1987 song It’s the End of the ...

The new Netflix show deftly explores the making of songs from R.E.M., Alicia Keys, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Ty Dolla Sign. It’s exhilarating TV. By Wesley Morris Netflix might offer flashier, more stunt ...