Brooklyn Vegan — R.E.M.'s hit gets reworked with 2016 lyrics. Continue reading… more info

Consequence of Sound — Between the rise of The Donald and the loss of Harambe, it's been an apocalyptic last 12 months. more info

JamBase — Watch the trio rework an R.E.M. classic into an ode about 2016 entitled “It’s The End Of The Year As We Know It.” more info

Stereogum — Michael Stipe was a guest on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert to talk about what he’s been up to since R.E.M. last performed together in 2011. Stipe and Colbert burned through a bunch of topics including why he had to step away from music, a new ... more info

Stereogum — Patti Smith performed at Democracy Now!‘s 20th anniversary event in NYC last night. She dedicated the first of the two songs she played, “Peaceable Kingdom,” to the victims of the Oakland warehouse fire, and afterwards, R.E.M. frontman Michael ... more info

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