To tie in with the fortieth anniversary of R.E.M.‘s recording career and R.E.M. week on GIITTV, Bill Cummings, Jim Auton...
There are people out there who think that Wolverhampton Wanderers went downhill after losing George Berry in 1982, when the...
Twenty five years ago, R.E.M. released their most underrated album. New Adventures In Hi-Fi came out in what was a slightly transitional...
‘Snap! Crack! Bushwhacked/Tie another one to your act, baby’… Thus begins ‘Drive’: the opening track – and first single from...
Nashville. 1987. R.E.M. are recording Document their final album for their independent home I.R.S., their first album with Scott Litt (Carly Simon, Ian Hunter, the...
And so, it came to pass that, 30 years after their debut single ‘Radio Free Europe’ R.E.M. released their 15th and...
Twenty years on, Reveal is still as beautiful and sharp an album as it was back in 2001. Delightfully lush...
The first proper gig I ever went to was R.E.M. at Slane Castle in Ireland. It was July 1995 and...
In 1989, after a decade of tours and releases and following the Green shows, R.E.M. decided to take a break from touring...
Throughout their 30-year recording career, R.E.M. took plenty of sonic detours and meandered down less-travelled back roads. However, 1985’s Fables...
Few of us were prepared for the full-on aural assault of R.E.M.‘s hard-hitting 2008 album. I guess its title, Accelerate,...
Forty years on from their formation, and 10 years on from their break up, R.E.M. remain one of the most...
You can’t have failed to have noticed it’s been R.E.M. week here at GIITTV. You see, GITTV doesn’t just give...
By 1988, R.E.M. had been moving very fast, and working very hard, for a long time. After releasing an album...
Following a stunning, spooky and uplifting debut in 1983, R.E.M. began channelling their natural ability to write melodies into full...