During a time when the band faced criticism for their massive Warner Brothers record contract and big expectations for radio ...

Michael Stipe has said that REM never recorded one of the best albums of all time. The frontman of the group, who announced their split in September, told ShortList that he failed in his childhood ...

Every musician has that one particular song that changed their life completely, and for REM songwriter Michael Stipe, Patti ...

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For a few years in the late ’80s, R.E.M. and the Replacements were running neck-and-neck as the most lauded bands to emerge from the American underground. The two groups shaped the decade’s ...