NEW YORK (AP) — Twenty-five years ago, an R.E.M. album arrived that didn't sound like a typical R.E.M. album. “Up,” the band's 11th album which dropped in the fall of 1998, was a curious and ...

It happened a year ago, when all four founding members of R.E.M. got on stage together at the 40 Watt. Could it happen again?

It started as a pop-up performance or two, then a Tonight Show appearance. Before they knew it, Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy were on tour playing R.E.M. albums front to back. “This was not ...

It's not often that a band's most commercially successful album bisects a career as cleanly as R.E.M.'s Out of Time does. That monster release, celebrating its 30th anniversary this week, took an ...

R.E.M.’s later-era albums don’t often get the respect they deserve. Sure, we love the classic ’80s stuff — especially “Lifes Rich Pageant,” which makes our desert-island shortlist. And we certainly ...