R.E.M's Bill Berry became emotional as he reflected on his decision to leave the band at the height of their success. Berry and fellow University of Georgia students Michael Stipe, Peter Buck and Mike ...

Revisiting R.E.M.’s 'Worst' Album After 19 Trips Around the Sun R.E.M.’s original four members Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Bill Berry performed in public tonight (June 13) for the first ...

"What a ride it has been," frontman Michael Stipe said at the ceremony, which featured his band's first performance in 17 years Dave Quinn is the Deputy News Director at PEOPLE. He has been working at ...

With thirty-five years of hindsight, R.E.M.’s Out of Time (released 3/12/91) sounds like even more of a vast stylistic ...

All four original members of R.E.M. performed together for the first time since 1997 at the Songwriters Hall of Fame induction ceremony Thursday night, with a rendition of their 1991 Grammy-winning ...

For rock fans of a certain age this may be hard to believe, but it’s been more than 40 years since R.E.M. scored their first Billboard Hot 100 hit with “Radio Free Europe.” The scrappy band from ...

In R.E.M.’s early years, Michael Stipe was comfortable with ambiguity, as a lyricist and as a public figure. His lyrics were dense and cryptic, but they wouldn’t be printed out in the band’s liner ...

What was R.E.M.? It depends on who you are. Outside of U2, the Athens, Ga., quartet was the biggest rock band on the planet in the 1990s. But for those who followed its early career as America’s most ...

R.E.M. just keep reuniting. Thursday night, Feb. 27, the band that has repeatedly insisted they’ll never do a full-fledged reunion, took the stage at the 40 Watt Club in Athens, Georgia to perform ...