On last night's episode of Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, Michael Stipe came through. But for once, he wasn't there to sing. He was for an interview with Fallon, where he talked about R.E.M.'s breakup…   Read Story »

Name: R.E.M. Progress Report: Mike Mills talks greatest hits, covering Big Star, and life after R.E.M. It’s kind of hard to comment on the progress of a band that just released a…   Read Story »

R.E.M.'s career-spanning greatest-hits collection Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982- 2011 arrives in about a week, and it includes three new songs that the band recorded just…   Read Story »

R.E.M.'s greatest-hits collection Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982- 2011 arrives next month, and it features the new single "We All Go Back To Where We Belong," which the band…   Read Story »

They announced their breakup last month, but alt-gods R.E.M. aren't going away until they give us one last greatest-hits album. The Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982- 2011…   Read Story »

Before you see this as a total cash grab, mere days after R.E.M. called it quits, here's some context for the band's recently announced new Greatest Hits collection (via Rolling Stone): R.E.M.…   Read Story »

On Saturday night, Coldplay trotted out R.E.M.'s "Everybody Hurts" and I'm guessing you can imagine how people reacted to the cover (SPOILER ALERT: They enjoyed the shit out of it).   Read Story »

R.E.M. is no more, but the insanely influential band still has a few things left to share with us. As Consequence Of Sound points out, R.E.M. will release a new greatest-hits compilation called Part…   Read Story »

For reasons presumably unrelated to Michael Stipe's dick flicks, R.E.M. announced their breakup today. And while we can argue all day about their past decade-plus of output, very few bands -- maybe…   Read Story »

Consider this: in a completely, literally revelatory Tumblr post, REM's Michael Stipe gave us a tour of his dick, pretty much (it's actually a tour of his bedroom, or something, but he doesn't waste…   Read Story »