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Jason Isbell and Michael Stipe — in his first public live appearance in five years — performed a set of music together Friday at a Pittsburgh fundraiser for the Harris-Walz campaign, with the duo playing R.E.M. songs that Stipe hadn’t sung since before the band’s breakup. The singers were introduced …

Not long ago, Johnny Irion was putting the finishing touches on his new album when he realized that he could use some harmony vocals. So he called Mike Mills, who met him at a mutual friend’s studio in Georgia, and they spent an afternoon singing together. “I just love Johnny’s …

A week of welcome R.E.M. reunions — which began with their first interview together in nearly 30 years and followed by a surprise performance at the Songwriters Hall of Fame — continued Saturday with a new playlist curated by the band highlighting their favorite R.E.M. songs. “The R.E.M. TOP 40 …

It didn’t take “a comet,” as Mike Mills joked it would, just an induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame to prompt R.E.M. to perform together for the first time since 2007. In the lead up to the event, sat down for an interview with CBS Mornings, the majority of …

Less than a day after bassist Mike Mills declared it would take “a comet” for the four founding members of R.E.M. to play together again, the quartet took to the stage for a surprise performance celebrating their induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame on Thursday night. Mills, Michael Stipe, …

The four founding members of R.E.M. reunited (for an interview only) to reflect on their history with CBS Mornings ahead of their induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame Thursday night. The quartet confirmed they would not play together again (it would take “a comet,” according to bassist Mike Mills, …

Michael Stipe reveals in a new interview that he is slowly but surely working on a solo album, his first since the dissolution of R.E.M. over a dozen years ago. The New York Times checked in on Stipe for over a year, where unsteady progress was made on the solo …

There were few bands on the planet bigger than R.E.M. in the mid-Nineties. Their popularity grew every year in the Eighties before they went supernova the following decade thanks to hits like “Losing My Religion,” “Man on the Moon,” “Everybody Hurts,” and “What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?” Warner Bros. was so …

When the cover of Micky Dolenz Sings R.E.M. began circulating online earlier this month, many people presumed it was some sort of Photoshop prank. Dolenz did record a tribute album to Carole King in 2010, and he followed it up in 2021 with a collection of Michael Nesmith songs, but …

Beyond the chaos of the kitchen in the FX dramedy series The Bear exist the other aspects of each character’s life that are one thread pull away from completely unraveling. In a new music video, R.E.M. uses clips from those intimate moments as a backdrop to a remix of “Strange …