When assembling a crack team of R.E.M.’s eleven most splendid songs, you can’t help but be struck by the number...
Twenty years on, Reveal is still as beautiful and sharp an album as it was back in 2001. Delightfully lush...
‘Snap! Crack! Bushwhacked/Tie another one to your act, baby’… Thus begins ‘Drive’: the opening track – and first single from...
A Carnival of Sorts: An R.E.M. covers compilation by Various Artists is out now, we are outlining who the artists...
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...
In 1989, after a decade of tours and releases and following the Green shows, R.E.M. decided to take a break from touring...
There are people out there who think that Wolverhampton Wanderers went downhill after losing George Berry in 1982, when the...
To mark their 40th anniversary, we are celebrating R.E.M. all week, and will then release a tribute covers compilation of...
At the end of July, GIITTV celebrated the fortieth anniversary of R.E.M.’s recording career with a week of coverage, we...
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...
The first proper gig I ever went to was R.E.M. at Slane Castle in Ireland. It was July 1995 and...
The debut LP from Athens, Georgia, U.S.A natives R.E.M. came out when I wasn’t quite 2 years old, in April...
In 1984, just a few days shy of the one-year anniversary of their debut album Murmur, R.E.M. (Bill Berry, Peter...
By 1988, R.E.M. had been moving very fast, and working very hard, for a long time. After releasing an album...
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...