Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pop culture can turn on you, and R.E.M. doesn't want us kids to forget it. "Drive," the first single from Automatic For the People ...

You can learn a lot about an R.E.M. album from its first 10 seconds. The thunderous drums and ringing guitar at the start of 1987's Document signaled a dramatic ...

In the spring of 1991, R.E.M. had reached the mountaintop. Released on March 12, 1991 — just four months shy of the 10th anniversary of the band’s debut single, “Radio Free Europe” — Out Of Time ...

On October 5, one of the great albums of the ’90s turned 25 years old. R.E.M.’s Automatic For The People sold four million copies in the US and spawned hits like “Man On The Moon” and “Everybody Hurts ...

The new documentary Automatic Unearthed tells all about R.E.M.'s Automatic For The People as the group celebrates the album's 25th anniversary. By Gary Graff The new documentary Automatic Unearthed ...

During their 30-plus years together, R.E.M. experienced many career growth spurts. However, the early-mid-’90s era can rightfully be considered the Athens, Georgia band’s imperial phase — the time ...

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of REM‘s seminal ‘Automatic For The People’, we sat down with bassist Mike Mills to talk about the album’s legacy, politics and the chances of the band ever getting ...

in '92, midway through a 30-year-long run, the band unleashed their most crushingly gorgeous LP: 'Automatic for the People,' 25 years old today (Oct. 6), and a Southern goth-pop masterpiece, By ...

IN 1992, words like “enigmatic” and “shy” and “difficult” were used to describe Michael Stipe. When the strange, beautiful, semi-acoustic Automatic For The People appeared that year, the reticent ...

If the anniversary packages of R.E.M.'s discography, like Automatic For The People, seem to be arriving in quick succession, that's because the band hit an extraordinarily prolific stride around a ...

Pop culture can turn on you, and R.E.M. doesn't want us kids to forget it. "Drive," the first single from Automatic For the People, with its majestically fingered acoustic guitar, comes on like a ...