FOUR YEARS ago, REM looked in terminal decline. Michael Stipe, Peter Buck and Mike Mills had delivered the weakest album of their career. Around The Sun was a collection every bit as insipid as its ...

REM have slammed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for using their music at one of his rallies. Trump had used the alt-rock group's 1987 hit 'It's the End of the World as We Know It (And ...

Michael Stipe has said that REM never recorded one of the best albums of all time. The frontman of the group, who announced their split in September, told ShortList that he failed in his childhood ...

Ex-Warner U.K. chairman Rob Dickins calls for micro payments revolution during the U.K. music conference. By Richard Smirke “What we need is a revolution. What we’ve got is an erosion,” former Warner ...

Find out if the members are on good terms today ICONIC rock band REM has reunited and performed for the first time in nearly two decades. The band recently spoke ...

Every REM album since 1994's disappointing Monster has been described by one critic or another as a 'return to form'. Personally, I'm not convinced that the band are capable of making another album as ...

Musicians here have reacted with bewilderment to the revelation that REM's new album 'Accelerate' will be accepted as "Irish music" by the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland. Independent radio ...

The stunning, avant-garde Casa da Musica, designed by Rem Koolhaas, opened last week in Porto, Portugal, with a 1,300-seat hall geared for both electronic and classical music. It looks like a rock for ...

After 15 albums and 31 years in the music business, the band REM is breaking up. In a farewell to fans, frontman Michael Stipe wrote on the band's website that a wise man once said "the skill in ...