Brooklyn Vegan — Toronto's The Seams features members of Fake Palms, Elsa, and U.S. Girls, and make the kind of ringing guitar pop you would hear a lot on college radio in the '80s. The cover art to their debut album, Meet the Seams, features an illustratio... more info

MSN Music — Iconic songs from Nirvana, David Bowie, Prince, R.E.M., Elvis Presley, and more are among the 25 recordings that will be inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame's class of 2017. "The GRAMMY Hall Of Fame represents all genres of music, acknowledging... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — FourFourTwo is counting down the best soccer books of all time. R.E.M. members discussed their Out of Time album (first released 25 years ago) with Rolling Stone. 12 "best books of 2016" lists were added to the master aggregation at... more info

KEXP Seattle — It’s reissue season, and this week brings us deluxe versions of Soundgarden’s Badmotorfinger, Tori Amos’ Boys for Pele, Ween’s live album, and R.E.M.‘s now-classic Out of Time, whose deluxe edition features new liner notes, 19 never-before-... more info

Consequence of Sound — Michael Stipe and Mike Mills discuss their early days, songwriting process, and life after the band. more info

Stereogum — R.E.M. just released a deluxe 25th anniversary edition of Out Of Time, the 1991 album that catapulted them into pop stardom. To promote the reissue, frontman Michael Stipe and bassist Mike Mills recently stopped by the Iroquois New York Hotel, where ... more info

DrownedInSound — After an Eighties spent as the most critically revered band on the planet, R.E.M. finally became global superstars with 1991's Out of Time more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Plus: Stipe's visual art is on display in NYC through December. Continue reading… more info

Consequence of Sound — Former R.E.M. frontman came to the realization following his David Bowie tribute concerts. more info

Stereogum — With the 25th anniversary deluxe reissue of R.E.M.’s Out Of Time due out later this week, Michael Stipe has been giving a few interviews, first with Alec Baldwin and now with The New York Times. In the latter, while talking about his flurry activit... more info