R.E.M.’s new album began before their previous recording was finished. While the group was mixing Out of Time, they also recorded demos at Prince’s Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen, Minnesota. One ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Book Bonus Beat: ...

“Shiny Happy People” was a smash hit for alternative rock band R.E.M. in 1991. In fact, the song was their first Top 10 hit in the UK, where it peaked at No. 6. The song was also popular across the ...

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 ...

In The Alternative Number Ones, I'm reviewing every #1 single in the history of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative Songs, starting with the moment that the chart launched in 1988. This ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Get ready to feel really, really old. Thirty-five years ago today, R.E.M. released "Losing My Religion," a song that defined the ...

Michael Stipe finally put to rest a nearly four-decade-long struggle to understand just what he's singing in R.E.M.'s 1987 song "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)." Over the ...

Get ready to feel really, really old. Thirty-five years ago today, R.E.M. released "Losing My Religion," a song that defined the early '90s, at least in the alt rock genre. The song was the first ...

The band is upset that their classic song was used during the network's coverage of the Democratic National Convention. By Jordan Zakarin R.E.M. Michael Stipe Amsterdam - H 2011 Michael Stipe is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But for alternative rock icon Michael Stipe, it wasn't the fuzzed-out rock anthems of "Powderfinger" or "Hey Hey, My My (Into The ...

It's been 15 years since R.E.M. performed live, and 13 since the band broke up. "The thing that makes a band a band is the chemistry that occurs between the three or four people when they're standing ...

Anthony Mason is a senior culture and senior national correspondent for CBS News. He has been a frequent contributor to "CBS Sunday Morning." Analisa Novak is a content producer for CBS News and the ...