Rolling Stone reports that the premiere screening of the Silents Synced version of Sherlock Jr. will take place on February 1, 2025, at the Morton Theatre in R.E.M.’s hometown of Athens, Georgia.

R.E.M. already had five albums under their belt before major labels came calling. In their eight years together prior to signing with Warner Bros. and recording 1988’s Green, the Athens, Georgia, ...

Pairing classic movies with modern soundtracks is always fun—like playing The Dark Side of the Moon and The Wizard of Oz at the same time—and it works especially well with silent films. When one of ...

Last Thursday, in an interview broadcast on “CBS Mornings,” the original lineup of R.E.M. — vocalist Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills and drummer Bill Berry — spoke with ...

Will R.E.M. get together again? It's been a year since the four founding members of the Athens-based band reunited on stage for a song, "Pretty Persuasion", at the 40-Watt with Michael Shannon and ...

Censorship is a story old as time and one that will surely continue to outlive all of us. It is a shame, but it’s one of the many inevitable parts of our world’s culture. That being said, there have ...

There were few bands on the planet bigger than R.E.M. in the mid-Nineties. Their popularity grew every year in the Eighties before they went supernova the following decade thanks to hits like “Losing ...