In The Alternative Number Ones, I'm reviewing every #1 single in the history of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative Songs, starting with the moment that the chart launched in 1988. This ...

"What a ride it has been," frontman Michael Stipe said at the ceremony, which featured his band's first performance in 17 years L. Busacca/Getty Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Bill Berry and Mike Mills of ...

The band is upset that their classic song was used during the network's coverage of the Democratic National Convention. By Jordan Zakarin R.E.M. Michael Stipe Amsterdam - H 2011 Michael Stipe is ...

It's been 15 years since R.E.M. performed live, and 13 since the band broke up. "The thing that makes a band a band is the chemistry that occurs between the three or four people when they're standing ...

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 ...

The complete lineup of R.E.M. delivered their first public performance since 2007 to mark their induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame Thursday night. The quartet delivered just one song – their ...

Here’s something that could stop a man from losing his religion: R.E.M. reunited for the first time in over 15 years. The highly influential alternative-rock band performed an acoustic “Losing My ...

It didn’t take “a comet,” as Mike Mills joked it would, just an induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame to prompt R.E.M. to perform together for the first time since 2007. In the lead up to the ...

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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 ...

For a while, it seemed like R.E.M. would never emerge from their status as underground rock heroes into the mainstream. Once they made that jump, however, they routinely delivered songs that did very ...