He’s performed Samuel Beckett on Broadway and memorized scripts for Oscar-nominated movies and Emmy-winning TV shows. So it ...

All four members of R.E.M. performed 'Pretty Persuasion' alongside Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy at a show in Athens, Georgia.

R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe with Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy's R.E.M. tribute band on March 8, 2025 (photo: Lauren Krohn).

On the first day of recording at Kingsway Studio in New Orleans – one of four studios REM booked for their ninth ... In short order all the other band members fell ill. Michael Stipe mourned ...

REM's early career wasn't anywhere near as filled with success as their output in the late-1980s and '90s, but the band may not have existed if it was.

Although music journalist David Buckley said lead singer Michael Stipe picked the term randomly out of a dictionary, R.E.M. always put a lot of effort into the visual aesthetic of the band ...

SEATTLE — Music journalist Peter Ames Carlin talked with us about the subject of "The Name of This Band is R.E.M," a 464-page biography of the '80s college rock sensations who became global ...

Although music journalist David Buckley claimed lead singer Michael Stipe selected the term randomly from a dictionary, R. E. M. always invested heavily in the visual aesthetic of the band ...

“But we’re not a tribute band,” Narducy emphasizes, meaning they do not try to give exact transcriptions of the music. “It’s a group of indie-rock veterans doing their version of these ...

Whether you’re a long-time or more casual fan, or just someone who loves great music, Stipe are a must-see tribute band who capture the essence of R.E.M., one of the defining bands of our times.