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 ...

R.E.M.’s later-era albums don’t often get the respect they deserve. Sure, we love the classic ’80s stuff — especially “Lifes Rich Pageant,” which makes our desert-island shortlist. And we certainly ...

Hootie and the Blowfish‘s Darius Rucker, R.E.M.‘s Mike Mills, and the Black Crowes‘ Steve Gorman have been quietly working on an album by their new supergroup, Howl Owl Howl, for the last five years — ...

It's not often that a band's most commercially successful album bisects a career as cleanly as R.E.M.'s Out of Time does. That monster release, celebrating its 30th anniversary this week, took an ...

R.E.M. were still a band. Talk of a split had not been made public. Behind the scenes, however, they'd already decided that 2011's Collapse Into Now would be their final album. "We were doing the last ...