R.E.M. can be added to the long list of artists who have refused to play specific songs at their shows, even if they are some ...

Pairing classic movies with modern soundtracks is always fun—like playing The Dark Side of the Moon and The Wizard of Oz at the same time—and it works especially well with silent films. When one of ...

R.E.M. may not be there when you want them. But the band finds a way to pop up exactly when they are needed. Whether that entails helping fans to emotionally cope with a global pandemic or other ...

Censorship is a story old as time and one that will surely continue to outlive all of us. It is a shame, but it’s one of the many inevitable parts of our world’s culture. That being said, there have ...

“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 have been a number of really good books written about R.E.M. and the wildly creative Athens music scene of the 1980s and ‘90s. They include Rodger Lyle Brown’s 1991 fly-on-the-wall account, ...

As part of a new series documenting notable community events from bygone eras, the San Antonio Office of Preservation released a fun piece of music trivia from San Antonio's collective memory bank. In ...

A week of welcome R.E.M. reunions — which began with their first interview together in nearly 30 years and followed by a surprise performance at the Songwriters Hall of Fame — continued Saturday with ...