Music News Net — MUSIC NEWS - R.E.M. has announced a July 13 release of an expanded 25th Anniversary 2CD and digital edition of the band's 1985 album, Fables Of The Reconstruction (out via Capitol / I.R.S.). The new edition will feature a digitally... more info

Undercover, Australia — Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Bill Berry recorded the original album in London in the winter of 1985. more info

NME — 'Fables Of The Reconstruction (25th Anniversary Edition)' is due out in July more info

Pitchfork — In 2008, R.E.M. reissued Murmur, their debut album, and it scored a 10.0 from us. Last year, they did the same for sophomore effort Reckoning, and it got another 10.0. And on July 13, they'll drop a deluxe edition of album number three, 1985's Fables... more info

411 Mania — Get ready for Tired Pony... more info

Undercover, Australia — Members of Snow Patrol, R.E.M., Belle & Sebastian, and more band together to record a country concept album. more info

Jam! Showbiz Music, Canada — R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck has teamed up with Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody to record a country music album. more info

Pitchfork — BBC 6Music points out that Gary Lightbody, the golden-voiced frontman for Scottish MOR mainstays Snow Patrol, has formed a new group whose membership includes R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck, Belle and Sebastian drummer Richard Colburn, and Young Fresh F... more info

Pitchfork — Photo by Jem Cohen See You Around The late singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt released exactly one major label album during the course of his career: the 1996 Capitol/EMI effort About to Choke. On June 15, Plain Recordings will reissue the album on CD ... more info

NME — Tired Pony project features guest spots from She & Him and Editors more info