Dial-A-Poem poet John Giorno has worked with a number of literary and art mainstays over the years, including Andy Warhol. It seems we have Warhol's continuing influence to thank for R.E.M.'s "We All Go Back to W...
So rare to see a rock band last as long as R.E.M. has, particularly one so enormously successful. Formed in Athens, Georgia in 1980 by Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Bill Berry (who left the band in 1997), ...
The album is a 40-song career-spanning retrospective that collects, for the first time ever, songs from R.E.M.'s entire back catalog, including the pioneering American band's years on both the IRS label (1982 to 1987)...
Looks like all the True Believers out there will have to wait a few extra months to see "Thor 2."
The Marvel sequel has been moved back from July 16, 2013 to November 15, 2013, just two weeks before the T...
The Roseland Ballroom in New York holds around 3,200 people, but far more were shut out at Radiohead's concert there last night (Sept. 28). The lines extended for blocks, in part because of anti-scalping measures from...
Over the past 25 years, the Bridge School Benefit Concert, organized by Neil Young and wife Pegi, has featured iconic rock acts as Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, Pearl Jam, David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Wilco, Paul McCartn...
Last week came word that R.E.M. 31-year history would be tied up nearly in a bow with “Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage: 1982-2011,” but details were scant on the package.
Now...
Chris Martin is "sad" to see R.E.M. go. So Coldplay tackled the legendary Athens band's saddest and most popular tunes.
The British group played a drumless "Everybody Hurts" during their appearanc...
1) R.E.M.: Sometimes magnificent, often inscrutable, but always interesting, the durable Athens, Ga. purveyors of jangle pop call it quits after 31 years. It’s not the end of the world as we know it, it ju...
Nirvana thrived in contradiction: quiet and loud, passion and disassociation, melody and dissonance, clarity and obliqueness, pop-unfriendly and radio-baiting. Like their breakthrough single “Smells Like Teen Sp...
