Last night, on his Late Show, David Letterman announced his impending retirement, and the former R.E.M. bassist Mike Mills, randomly enough, was the one who broke the news via Twitter. Mills was there because he and his former bandmate Peter Buck were working in the backing band of the singer-songwriter Joseph Arthur, last night’s musi...

This year’s Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame inductees include Nirvana, Kiss, and Peter Gabriel, and the Hall has just announced most of the suitably big-deal guests — many of them already Hall Of Famers themselves — who will induct and pay tribute to this year’s class. Former R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe will ...

R.E.M. had the rare honor of headlining MTV’s Unplugged twice, once in 1991 and again in 2001. Both of those performances will be made available on vinyl this Record Store Day (April 19) in a 4-LP set. The collection includes every song from the Unplugged performances, including 11 songs that never aired. Though the videos [...]

Bill Berry and Mike Mills joined Peter Buck during his solo gig for a rendition of '(Don't Go Back to) Rockville'    

Last night REM guitarist Peter Buck played Athens’ 40 Watt Club, and the hometown fans were treated to something special: Former R.E.M. bandmates Mike Mills and Bill Berry joined Buck for a performance of “(Don’t Go Back To) Rockville” from 1984′s Reckoning. Michael Stipe was reportedly in the cr...