Simply put, R.E.M.’s fifteenth studio album is basically as good as you can expect from the band at this point. It’s not vintage R.E.M., but it is more inspired and natural feeling than the rest of their post Bill Berry material. On 2008’s Accelerate, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Michael Stipe took an appropriate ste...

several of Big Star's most prominent fans are coming together to pay tribute to the group with a performance of their third album

The band visited the KCRW show “Morning Becomes Eclectic” yesterday to do some songs from The King Is Dead as well as this cover from R.E.M. The original appears on 1986’s Lifes Rich Pageant. “Cuyahoga” refers to the Cuyahoga River in Ohio, a river so polluted it’s caught fire over 13 t...

"This is, song for song, the best thing we've ever done," guitarist Buck told Rolling Stone

R.E.M. are offering fans the chance to remix their music