Scientists discovered a surprising energy paradox in the brain during REM sleep, the stage most closely associated with ...

"All right, what would John McVie do here?" ...

Few bands break up as gracefully as R.E.M. The alt-rock band called it quits in September 2011, writing on their website, “We walk away with a great sense of gratitude, of finality, and of ...

On August 24, 1982, R.E.M. released their debut EP, “Chronic Town.” Even today, it’s difficult to categorize the five-song release: Bookended by the ringing, yearning “Wolves, Lower” and the ...

R.E.M. built a following partly through their defiantly anti-commercial stance during the image-driven '80s, so it may have come as something of a surprise when the band agreed to release a collection ...

Will R.E.M. get together again? It's been a year since the four founding members of the Athens-based band reunited on stage for a song, "Pretty Persuasion", at the 40-Watt with Michael Shannon and ...

With "Out of Time," R.E.M. continued going mainstream on its own terms, taking another crucial step in the transition from scruffy left-of-the-dial mainstays to makers of stately, intelligent, deeply… ...