Near the end of the gig in R.E.M.’s hometown, Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, and Bill Berry joined Shannon and Narducy for a performance of the Reckoning track “Pretty Persuasion.” Mike Mills completed ...
R.E.M. gave a rare live performance on Thursday night, playing their 1984 song "Pretty Persuasion" at the 40 Watt Club in their hometown of Athens, Georgia. The last time R.E.M. performed together was ...
R.E.M. never had a chance to be a secret. Though some of the band’s earliest fans would later bemoan its globe-straddling success, in the way of all connoisseurs who get to an eventually popular thing ...
On Wednesday, March 12, 2008, R.E.M. appeared at SXSW to perform at Stubb’s Bar-B-Q in Austin, Texas. The 90-minute set for the 2,5000 capactiy crowd showcased the band’s fourteenth, and ...
From NPR to Radio Free Europe, the Trump Administration has been trying to seriously slash media funding. But, one of these organizations has an unlikely Georgia ally: A rock band from Athens. Michael ...
The most surprising thing about Peter Ames Carlin’s biography “The Name of This Band is R.E.M.” is how undramatic the story seems. R.E.M., in Mr. Carlin’s telling, is the band that did it right, ...
R.E.M. is turning 45 years old this Saturday, which is a perfect time to take a trip to its hometown. Let's just say, you can get there from here. All it takes is the right frame of mind. You don't ...
R.E.M. just keep reuniting. Thursday night, Feb. 27, the band that has repeatedly insisted they’ll never do a full-fledged reunion, took the stage at the 40 Watt Club in Athens, Georgia to perform ...