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 ...

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.

The post Every R.E.M. Album Ranked From Worst to Best appeared first on Consequence. It’s been over 40 years since R.E.M. played their first show, a friend’s birthday party in an abandoned church in ...

R.E.M. produced quite a bit of music across their 31-year career: 15 studio albums, a rarities compilation and an EP, along with multiple live LPs, soundtrack cuts and hits sets. While the Athens, Ga.

Three-quarters of the way through Richard Linklater’s 1990 film “Slacker,” an accomplice to a botched robbery strolls past a concrete lot covered in AstroTurf, on top of which a sculptor is setting up ...

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 ...

I grew up on the music of Athens, Georgia band R.E.M., so maybe I’m a little biased. They first blew up in the early ‘80s with the catchy song “Radio Free Europe” that was extremely popular around ...

There have been a number of really good books written about R.E.M. and the wildly creative Athens music scene of the 1980s and ‘90s. They include Rodger Lyle Brown’s 1991 fly-on-the-wall account, ...

All four original members of R.E.M. performed together for the first time since 1997 at the Songwriters Hall of Fame induction ceremony Thursday night, with a rendition of their 1991 Grammy-winning ...

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 ...

To many fans, “New Adventures in Hi-Fi” represents R.E.M. at its creative peak. The Athens, Georgia-based quartet – singer Michael Stipe, drummer Bill Berry, guitarist Peter Buck and bassist Mike ...