Stipe's stirring elegy to the late comedian Andy Kaufman. The song comes quickly out of the gate with two arresting guitar parts – Peter Buck's star-gazing slide work, and that none-simpler riff ...

With songs like “Drive” and “Everybody Hurts,” R.E.M. used delicate instrumentation to say something powerful. But on the follow-up, Monster, the Athens, Georgia, band chose to get loud. However, for ...

Steve Lamacq interviews Michael Stipe and Peter Buck of REMSteve Lamacq interviews Michael Stipe and Peter Buck of REM ...

Every generation has their “our childhood heroes are how old now?” moment — jaws surely dropped when Rita Hayworth turned 65, which is the precise age she became soon after Stipe’s band, R.E.M., ...

Peter Buck & Michael Stipe talk about writing "Everybody Hurts" Michael Stipe remembers, or forgets: "I remember wanting to write the song . . . but never actually writing it . . . or singing it." ...