R.E.M.

Stereogum — The early-’80s post-punk band Pylon were a hugely important force in the same Athens, Georgia scene that produced R.E.M. and the B-52’s. Pylon broke up in 1983 and then reunited a few times over the years, but that stopped when guitarist Randy... more info

Consequence Of Sound — The tour comes in celebration of the album's 40th anniversary Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy to Perform R.E.M.’s Mumur on US Tour Scoop Harrison more info

Stereogum — Every once in a while, the scary-intense Oscar-nominated movie star Michael Shannon gets together with his Chicago friend Jason Narducy, from the Bob Mould Band and Split Single, to pay tribute to a classic album. In the past few years, Shannon an... more info

Consequence Of Sound — The double-album reissue includes an 11-song performance filmed at the set of the famed teen drama. R.E.M. Announce Up 25th Anniversary Reissue Including 1999 Party of Five Performance Abby Jones more info

Stereogum — Next up in the R.E.M. reissue pipeline is a 25th anniversary edition of 1998’s Up , due out in November. The bonus material on this one is headlined by a fairly unusual batch of live material: an 11-song performance recorded on the set of Party... more info

Allmusic Blog — We've assembled some choice musical selections from season 2 of The Bear including R.E.M., Wilco, and very unexpected deep cuts from Tangerine Dream, Brian Wilson, Italian superstar Mina, and the best song from National Lampoon's Vacation. more info

Stereogum — A few weeks back, Mykki Blanco shared a new single called “Family Ties,” which featured none other than Michael Stipe. Today, they’re back with a new single and the promise of a new album in the fall, the follow-up to last year’s Broken He... more info

Stereogum — Next month, the endlessly prolific country-rock road dogs Drive-By Truckers will release their new album Welcome 2 Club XIII. The band spent three days recording the album live in Athens, Georgia last summer, and it’s got people like Margo Price... more info

Stereogum — Today is Earth Day, and Brian Eno takes the occasion seriously. Eno founded a climate-crisis charity called EarthPercent last year, and now he’s teamed up with Bandcamp and with dozens of prominent artists for a whole huge series of releases tha... more info

Sweeping The Nation — Onwards with our overview of the decade just passing, and today we alight on the year we were confidently repeatedly told that Jessie J was inevitably going to be an enormous international star. She did have a Billboard top ten album in 2014, but whe... more info