For their final album, 'Collapse Into Now', REM included "indications" of their forthcoming split to hint to fans that their ...

Every generation has their “our childhood heroes are how old now?” moment — jaws surely dropped when Rita Hayworth turned 65, which is the precise age she became soon after Stipe’s band, R.E.M., ...

If you ask him, Michael Shannon will tell you he doesn’t entirely approve of the turn his career has taken. At the age of 50, ...

The most surprising thing about Peter Ames Carlin’s biography “The Name of This Band is R.E.M.” is how ... If it’s hard now to see what was transgressive about R.E.M.—their political ...

The scrappy band from Athens, Georgia ... always stuff going on in the same way that there’s cool stuff going on now, but if you’re not tuned into the right places, you’re not getting ...

Band/REM Onstage, they could feel a solid wall of ... was right here, right now. Peter, his left hand holding the neck of his guitar, took a breath, then raked a pick over the strings, sending ...