On October 30, 1997 -- 20 years ago today -- Bill Berry left R.E.M. And on September 21, 2011, R.E.M. announced they were "calling it a day as a band." During the 14 years between Berry leaving R.E.M.

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 ...

R.E.M. split up for good in 2011, but they are now rereleasing Up as a deluxe 25th-anniversary edition featuring remastered audio, a 12-song set they played on the Party of Five set in 1999, the ...

Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Michael Stipe and Bill Berry attended the Songwriters Hall of Fame Induction and Awards Gala at the New York Marriott Marquis Hotel. (Evan Agostini / Invision / AP) "Writing ...

R.E.M.'s still got it. The group — comprised of frontman Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, bass player Mike Mills and drummer Bill Berry — had a surprise onstage reunion at the Songwriters Hall of ...

Not long after wrapping the tour in support of their debut, R.E.M. returned to the North Carolina studio where they made Murmur. With Don Dixon and Mitch Easter once again producing, the sessions for ...

"Everybody Hurts." "Man on the Moon." "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)." You'll hear those R.E.M. songs and more Saturday, Oct. 21 when founding member Mike Mills joins the ...

R.E.M. band members (L-R) Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Michael Stipe and Bill Berry attend the Songwriters Hall of Fame 2024 induction and awards gala at the New York Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...