The National’s Bryce Dessner has revealed that the band wouldn’t have formed without REM.

Former REM frontman Michael Stipe has described the managers of YouTube as ''disgraceful and cowardly'' after they removed a clip which has been made by the singer Perfume Genius.

Ex-bassist believes the singer will concentrate on art and photography instead

Singer reveals friendship with REM frontman and hails Georgia band's influence

'We All Go Back To Where We Belong', 'A Month Of Saturdays' and 'Hallelujah' were recorded this summer

Seminal band call it a day with 'astonishment at all we have accomplished'

The breakthrough fourth album, reissued with a trove of demos...In 1986, REM’s elevation to umpty-million-selling ubiquity, dominant influence and stadium marquees appeared other than inevitable. The Georgia quartet had released, in breakneck succession, two critically adored albums (1983’s Murmur, 1984’s Reckoning) and a third (1985’s Fables Of The Reconstruction) which was a much more expansive but nonetheless nervy and flawed record.

Singer says he tried to get Cobain to record with him

Guitarist opens up about why band won't take 'Collapse Into Now' on the road

Sounding more like themselves again...