From 'Murmur' to 'Automatic for the People', we run through the records of Athens, Georgia's finest 1980s indie outfit, REM a band like no other.

as REM retire from touring and expand their sound on Out Of Time. Gavin Martin takes the Athens heritage tour… “I’ve never written upfront love songs," says Stipe, I’ve never lip-synched ...

Out Of Time presages the is-he-or-isn’t-he eroticism of REM’s ’94 glam-rock outing Monster. These songs reveal a band at their most self-conscious; they were never more aware of themselves ...

There are countless songs which make us feel melancholy, from The Smiths to REM, but which does science deem the saddest?

In the cultural wasteland of the Reagan era, they showed that a band could break through to mass appeal without being cheesy, ...

"Writing songs and having a catalogue of work that we’re all proud of that is out there ... regret it at the time," he said. "Um, I sort of regretted it a little later." REM were inducted ...

The original line-up of the band REM performed together for the first time in nearly ... “Writing songs and having a ...

Some of those demos sounded too much like REM songs, and that's why ... silly kind of presentation to go out with. Mike had the nudie suits for the first time and I think that was the first ...

The best way to read “The Name of This Band is R.E.M.” is with a pair of headphones and a collection of the band's albums on ...

The annual In-Rem ... it out of the hands of the current owner, Charles Dobucki. He has owned the property since 1992 when he paid $26,000 for the place. It’s been vacant the whole time ...

“A lot of my friends that I hung out with at the time had some connection to ... Original material began to emerge — songs that were melodic and oblique in equal measure, with arpeggiated ...

"Writing songs and having a catalogue of work that we’re all proud of that is out ... REM, the drummer moved back to Georgia and worked on his hay farm. "I didn't regret it at the time," he ...