Stereogum — Once you add “Mine Smell Like Honey” to the pot, we’ve heard four fairly different sounds and takes for R.E.M’s 15th studio album Collapse Into Now. Last time it was the gentle “Oh My Heart.” This one’s a sunny, cheeky rocker: “I woul... more info

411 Mania — Band drafts R.E.M. guitarist for The King Is Dead... more info

NME - In The Office — The sounds rattling round the skulls of the NME staff this week 1. Those Dancing Days - 'Fuckarias' You’d have to be a pretty dismal sourpuss not to like Those Dancing Days. The Swedish fivesome made a minor splash in 2008 with their hand-clappin... more info

Jam! Showbiz Music, Canada — This week in rock: Allman plays the blues, Junkies celebrate Vic, Social D crank out some Nursery Rhymes, Decemberists pretend they're R.E.M. and more. more info

411 Mania — Peter Buck says it's the best thing they've ever done... more info

NME — Guitarist Peter Buck tells NME about band's forthcoming record more info

Popeater — Filed under: Music News, Health Issues Don't expect to cross paths with Michael Stipe on your next camping trip. R.E.M.'s front-man reveals that he developed a fear of the outdoors after a near death experience during an adolescent trip with the Boy ... more info

Guardian Music — (Rough Trade)After five increasingly ambitious and intricate albums, concluding with 2009's prog-folk-rock opera The Hazards of Love, the Decemberists have gone back to their beginnings for The King Is Dead, with leader Colin Meloy forsaking epic sto... more info

ContactMusic — R.E.M's new album "sounds really classic" and will be "beautiful and heartbreaking" according to the band.The group recorded 'Collapse Into Now' - their 15th album - in Germany and America over the last year and guitarist Peter Buck is confident it's... more info

ContactMusic — R.E.M. star MICHAEL STIPE nearly lost his life at the age of 14 when he was stranded on a mountaintop and hypothermia set in.The rocker reveals he got lost on a Boy Scout trip and the cold and wet weather made him seriously ill. He tells the New York... more info