Category: R.e.m.

September 22, 2011

REM and DC: Battle of the bands (with the same name) and keeping the streak

Filed under: R.e.m. - 22 Sep 2011

● Doug Hutchinson and his 17-year-old child bride Courtney Stodden want to host a reality TV show that will "show people what they can teach each other from different generations." That thirty year age difference is not looking any less …

REM: The band that defined, then eclipsed college rock

Filed under: R.e.m. - 22 Sep 2011

By Whitney Matheson, USA TODAY Yesterday's breakup of REM leaves many of us not feeling fine, as it marks the end of an era. For the past 31 years, the boys from Athens, Ga., have been just as instrumental to …

REM: The band that defined, then eclipsed college rock

Filed under: R.e.m. - 22 Sep 2011

Yesterday's news about REM's breakup after 31 years didn't really faze me in the sense that I'm surprised or sad or affected by the band itself in any way, shape or form. But it did make me hearken back to …

REM calls it quits, Twitter reacts, we mourn

Filed under: R.e.m. - 22 Sep 2011

REM were nothing if not pioneers — not just in exposing the music-loving world to so-called “indie-rock,” but in creating more than a dozen music videos that remain as poignant as the songs that inspired them, even decades after they …

REM breaks up

Filed under: R.e.m. - 22 Sep 2011

R.E.M., the Southern rock band hailing from Athens, Georgia, announced Wednesday morning on its website that the band is calling it quits after 31 years in the business and 15 albums.

On their official web site, REM said that it would …