Tag: R.E.M.

R.E.M. announces expanded 25th anniversary "Up" reissue with "Party of Five" live set

R.E.M. announces expanded 25th anniversary “Up” reissue with “Party of Five” live set

R.E.M.’s reissue campaign celebrating the 25th anniversaries of the its albums continues with the expanded reissue of Up, the band’s first post-Bill Berry album.

New releases: R.E.M., Cindy Wilson, Elizabeth Fraser, Catherine Wheel, Stone Roses, Ocean Blue

New releases: R.E.M., Cindy Wilson, Elizabeth Fraser, Catherine Wheel, Stone Roses, Ocean Blue

This week’s new releases include vinyl reissues from R.E.M., Catherine Wheel, The Stone Roses and The Ocean Blue, plus a new album from The B-52s’ Cindy Wilson.

Listen:  Scott McCaughey and Peter Buck cover Kevn Kinney's “MacDougal Blues”

Listen: Scott McCaughey and Peter Buck cover Kevn Kinney’s “MacDougal Blues”

Scott McCaughey and Peter Buck seemingly have been joined at the musical hip since McCaughey started his tenure as a R.E.M. sideman in the mid-’90s.

Out this week: R.E.M. vinyl reissues, plus The Beat Farmers and The Stranglers

Out this week: R.E.M. vinyl reissues, plus The Beat Farmers and The Stranglers

This week’s new releases include two titles apiece reissued on vinyl by R.E.M. and The Beat Farmers, plus a 4CD collection from The Stranglers.

R.E.M.'s "Strange Currencies" gets new video, digital EP thanks to song's use in "The Bear"

R.E.M.’s “Strange Currencies” gets new video, digital EP thanks to song’s use in “The Bear”

R.E.M.’s 1994 single “Strange Currencies” features prominently — and repeatedly — in the new second season of FX’s hit streaming show “The Bear.”

Check out this newly resurfaced, 40-minute post-Replacements interview with Bob Stinson

Check out this newly resurfaced, 40-minute post-Replacements interview with Bob Stinson

When Steve Birmingham launched “The Dewey Berger Show” on Minneapolis public-access TV in 1994, he conducted his first sit-down interview with Bob Stinson.

R.E.M.'s out-of-print "Around the Sun," "Collapse Into Now" to be reissued on vinyl

R.E.M.’s out-of-print “Around the Sun,” “Collapse Into Now” to be reissued on vinyl

Craft Recordings this summer will reissue two of R.E.M.’s out-of-print latter-era albums on heavyweight audiophile vinyl in both black and color pressings.