Recordings of 2007's Dublin gigs set for October arrival.

Double-disc live album to follow.

Accelerate is patchy at best, with only the blaring finale, ‘I’m Gonna DJ’, really catching the attention.

Musicians have reacted with bewilderment to the revelation that REM’s new album Accelerate will be accepted as ‘Irish music’ by the BCI.

Michael Stipe talks about REM's new album Accelerate , looks back at their 'working rehearsals' in Dublin and explains how their Irish-born producer...

It's being reported that R.E.M. will play the Oxegen festival this summer.

R.E.M. have confirmed details of their new album, which was publicly rehearsed in Dublin’s Olympia Theatre last year and recorded in Westmeath’s Grouse...

Stadium giants REM are to release their first-ever live album and DVD this autumn - a recording of a concert in Dublin.

Now venerated members of the Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame, REM are back stronger than ever before.

If REM apply the same print-and-be-damned attitude to the recording of these songs as they did to their live unveiling, they might produce their most vibrant...

R.E.M. are tonight set to complete their five-night stand in what they gushingly describe as “one of the greatest cities in world”.

In a new move to combat touts, REM will release a limited number of tickets for their coming Olympia Theatre shows.

In support of their upcoming Working Rehearsal concerts at the Olympia Theatre, R.E.M. have launched a new website to commemorate the occasion.

REM have announced which lucky artists will support them when they play their five date residency at The Olympia, Dublin.

American supergroup REM are to play a residency at The Olympia as a "working rehersal" of their new album.

In 2005, what is the point of REM? At times even they seem to be grasping for an answer. For nearly a decade now, the music of Stipe, Buck and Mills has...

Michael Stipe paid a special tribute to imprisoned Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi during REM's Irish performance last night

Tonight, Stipe looks like The Riddler – pipe-cleaner thin, all legs and hips and frozen Ka-Pow poses; while around the eyes, a thick smudge of face paint...

Recent visitors REM are pictured here with the suitably chuffed staff of Warner Music Ireland

REM bassist Mike Mills has recovered from illness, allowing the band to continue their European tour which comes to Ireland on Friday

Despite cancelling two tour dates in Britain this week, REM ticketholders in Ireland are assured the shows will go on

Sadly ‘Aftermath’ just isn’t very interesting.

REM have announced details of a summer gig at Ardgillan Castle in County Dublin

They are one of the most interesting and enigmatic groups in rock. They are also one of the biggest, with a string of multi-million selling albums to their...

REM will be appearing on Across The Line TV on Friday, October 1

Sometimes desperate times call for delicate measures.

Talk about hot cakes, REM are filling two Point Depots full of them...

With the release of their new album just a couple of weeks away, REM have added Dublin and Belfast to their set of European dates.

from reagan to bush; from radio free europe to clear channel; from green to reveal; from the sfx to marlay park. REM call time out and Peter Buck fills in...

‘Bad Day’ finds the band in upbeat mode.