A comprehensive archive of R.E.M. articles from newspapers, magazines and online.

By Chuck Philips
06.21.96
Los Angeles Times
Why would a rock manager resign at the moment when his band was about to cash in on the most lucrative recording contract of its career?
That was the question buzzing through the music industry last month when Jefferson Holt abruptly stepped down as manager of R.E.M., the superstar rock quartet that [...]

Review of It Crawled From The South: An R.E.M. Companion
By Henry Knox
06.17.96
Spike Magazine
This is the second edition of Marcus Gray’s definitive encyclopaedic guide to R.E.M., one of the few intelligent bands capable of regularly packing stadiums. Conceived as a comprehensive reference source for the diehard R.E.M. fan rather than the usual sycophantic rawk biography, It [...]