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

By Vic Garbarini
11.14.96
Guitar World
The Tortoise and the Hare. That’s the parable that best captures R.E.M.’s steady rise to their position as the most revered alternative rockers in the world. During the Eighties, they grasped that the essence of the punk ideal is to truly be yourself. And so, while everybody else looked around for somebody [...]

Q Magazine
It seems like only yesterday that R.E.M. had an album out and toured it around a grateful globe. Hey! It was! No slouches, they wrote and “laid down” another one — a better one! — along the way, which is now among us. Tom Doyle went to L.A. to talk to them about being [...]