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Rolling Stone’s 4-star review of COLLAPSE INTO NOW finds a band thirty years on touching on “all their favorite tricks: punk raves, stately ballads, piano, accordion and the most mandolin they’ve put in one place since “Losing My Religion.” You can read the review HERE.

Twenty years on, almost to the day of its release, we’re taking a look back at one of the great songs in the R.E.M. canon.

On February 19th, 1991, Losing My Religion, the first single from Out Of Time, was released on Warner Bros. Records. The

Peter, Mike, and Michael talk about the making of COLLAPSE INTO NOW in a ten minute and 35 second long interview at msn.com.

With the release of COLLAPSE INTO NOW just two weeks away in some countries, excitement in the R.E.M. world is at a fever pitch. After sharing five songs from the new record over the past few weeks, we’re ready for the world to hear the full record. Unfortunately

The Remix Project for IT HAPPENED TODAY which kicked off earlier this week has been a rousing success with over 100 remixed versions of the song posted at Soundcloud.com. If you would like to try your own hand at it, go just below to grab all the

Thus far, the response to the “It Happened Today” Remix Project has been fantastic. Over thirty mixes have been posted at Soundcloud.com, and while the results are tremendously varied [and even occasionally bizarre (in the most complimentary sense)], they’re all uniformly impressive. It’s been fun for

David Fricke of Rolling Stone takes a look at the band’s forthcoming album and speaks to Peter and Mike in an article called “R.E.M. Roar Back With Collapse Into Now” at rollingstone.com.

Earlier this week, the video for “Mine Smell Like Honey,” filmed and directed by Dominic DeJoseph, premiered at spinner.com. The film was shot in Berlin at Hansa Studios where the band recorded a portion of their new record; Michael had this to say about it:

everyone will have seen, or