For a teenager steeped in Welsh choir music, Michael Stipe’s kaleidoscope of artistic influences – and mega-success – were too irresistible not to follow When I first fell in love, I was 14. He was 32 ...
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 about how it would take a lot for them ...
REM once swore they'd never become a stadium band. Twenty-five years ago, they began to wish they'd kept their promise Ed Power writes about music, television and video games. As a journalist he has ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The album Up captured the dehumanisation and sexless ennui that defined the late Nineties. By Yo Zushi No one f***s to REM. The music critic Ann Powers once called them a group “that made ...
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 ...
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 ...