Michael Stipe: "We didn't want fame, we didn't want money, we wanted to be a vital creative band". REM's ninth album, Monster, is the most challenging and polarising record the band ever released.

REM once swore they'd never become a stadium band. Twenty-five years ago, they began to wish they'd kept their promise Ed Power writes about music, television and video games. As a journalist he has ...

Twenty years after the release of REM's Monster, Stewart Smith looks back at the awkward and highly sexual record which, he argues, is their queerest work This strategy seems all the more deliberate ...

Here’s a book pitch: A sequel to Michael Azerrad’s venerable Our Band Could Be Your Life, in which the story of American indie rock’s roots in the ’80s continues by delving into the boom and bust of ...

Monster was cursed. On the first day of recording at Kingsway Studio in New Orleans – one of four studios REM booked for their ninth album – Mike Mills was hospitalised with an intestinal disorder. In ...

Halfway through REM's March 1995 concert at the Patinoire de Malley in Lausanne, a bowling ball struck Bill Berry on the side of the head. That's how it felt to the 36-year-old drummer at least.

If you now consider a humble CD to be embarrassingly low-tech, Warners have reissued all their REM albums in CD/DVD double packs. Each CD is identical to the original album release, while the matching ...

REM have announced details of the 25th anniversary reissue of their 1994 album Monster. A five-CD, one-Blu-ray deluxe box set will include the original album, a special 2019 remix from Monster ...

REM's ninth album, Monster, is the most challenging and polarising record the band ever released. When it arrived in 1994, the band were at the peak of their popularity, thanks to the acoustic beauty ...

Michael Stipe: "We didn't want fame, we didn't want money, we wanted to be a vital creative band". When it arrived in 1994, the band were at the peak of their popularity, thanks to the acoustic beauty ...