A low-key quartet from a southern college town, R.E.M. didn’t look like the type to blaze a whole new path for pop music.

Michael Stipe said the band was influenced by its small-town roots The story of REM is in many ways the story of alternative rock in the USA. They emerged in the early 1980s from the college radio ...

In 1991, REM commissioned Chapman’s fifth grade class to paint a mural for their “Shiny Happy People” music video, which also featured B-52s vocalist Kate Pierson. Today, the mural hangs in ...

For 31 years, Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Bill Berry put together some of the most innovative music coming out of the American music scene as the band REM. Today, the band called it ...

They emerged in the early 1980s from the college radio scene - scrappy and lo-fi, abrasive but somehow beautiful - blossoming into bona-fide stadium-fillers only in the second decade of their ...

The story of REM is in many ways the story of alternative rock in the USA. They emerged in the early 1980s from the college radio scene - scrappy and lo-fi, abrasive but somehow beautiful ...