The best way to read “The Name of This Band is R.E.M.” is with a pair of headphones and a collection of the band's albums on streaming services or CDs. Opt for the cassettes or vinyl if you want to go ...

What was R.E.M.? It depends on who you are. Outside of U2, the Athens, Ga., quartet was the biggest rock band on the planet in the 1990s. But for those who followed its early career as America’s most ...

Peter Ames Carlin is the author of well-received biographies of Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon, and the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson. He turns his attention to music's subsequent generation ...

We look back at the singular story of a great American band, with help from Peter Ames Carlin, author of a new R.E.M. biography ...

SEATTLE — Music journalist Peter Ames Carlin talked with us about the subject of "The Name of This Band is R.E.M," a 464-page biography of the '80s college rock sensations who became global superstars ...

Peter Ames Carlin first heard Bruce Springsteen’s single “Born to Run” in 1975 when the future music biographer was a 12-year-old kid in a car headed home from a hike with his Boy Scout troop. He was, ...