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R.E.M.’s “Strange Currencies” gets new video, digital EP thanks to song’s use in “The Bear”

R.E.M.’s “Strange Currencies” gets new video, digital EP thanks to song’s use in “The Bear”

R.E.M.’s 1994 single “Strange Currencies” features prominently — and repeatedly — in the new second season of FX’s hit streaming show “The Bear.”

R.E.M.’s ‘New Adventures in Hi-Fi’ to receive 25th anniversary deluxe reissue

R.E.M.’s ‘New Adventures in Hi-Fi’ to receive 25th anniversary deluxe reissue

R.E.M. will continue its deluxe album reissue series this fall with an expanded 25th anniversary edition of New Adventures in Hi-Fi, the record the band made while touring 1995’s Monster and the final LP recorded before co-founder Bill Berry left the band. Full details and tracklists right here.

Listen: R.E.M., ‘Uptempo Mo Distortion’ (Demo) — off deluxe ‘Monster’ reissue

Listen: R.E.M., ‘Uptempo Mo Distortion’ (Demo) — off deluxe ‘Monster’ reissue

The, er, monstrous reissue of R.E.M.’s 1994 album Monster arrives on Friday, and the band has continued to tease some of the unheard material that’ll appear on the box set. Next up: the instrumental demo “Uptempo Mo Distortion,” which sounds enough like “old” R.E.M. to explain why it wasn’t further developed.

Listen: R.E.M., ‘Let Me In’ — 2019 Scott Litt remix (off deluxe ‘Monster’ reissue)

Listen: R.E.M., ‘Let Me In’ — 2019 Scott Litt remix (off deluxe ‘Monster’ reissue)

R.E.M. continues to tease fans with tastes of its newly remixed version of Monster, this time previewing the massive reissue of the 1994 album with original producer Scott Litt’s new take on “Let Me In,” the spare, wall-of-sound tribute to Kurt Cobain that anchored that record. Check it out right here.

Listen: R.E.M., ‘What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?’ — 2019 Scott Litt remix

Listen: R.E.M., ‘What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?’ — 2019 Scott Litt remix

R.E.M. is offering the first taste of Scott Litt’s new remix of Monster — part of the upcoming 6-disc box set marking the 25th anniversary of that album — via a worked-over version of the record’s first single, the Dan Rather-paraphrasing “What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?” Hear it right here.

R.E.M.’s 6-disc ‘Monster’ reissue to feature newly remixed album, unheard demos, live set

R.E.M.’s 6-disc ‘Monster’ reissue to feature newly remixed album, unheard demos, live set

R.E.M. will celebrate the 25th anniversary of its grunge-era return-to-rock Monster this fall with a 6-disc box set that will include previously unheard demos, an unreleased live concert, the “Road Movie” film and a newly remixed version of the album by original producer Scott Litt. See full details, including tracklist, right here.

R.E.M. to reissue ‘Monster’ next October to celebrate album’s 25th anniversary

R.E.M. to reissue ‘Monster’ next October to celebrate album’s 25th anniversary

R.E.M. will continue its album-by-album reissue series with a 25th anniversary re-release of its ninth studio album Monster next October, the band’s manager, Bertis Downs, revealed today in a post on the group’s website reminiscing about the genesis of that record. And, he notes, 2020 will be the band’s 40th anniversary.

Milestones: R.E.M. played sole ‘Automatic For the People’ concert 20 years ago today

Milestones: R.E.M. played sole ‘Automatic For the People’ concert 20 years ago today

R.E.M. famously didn’t tour behind its two best-selling albums — 1991’s ‘Out of Time’ and 1992’s ‘Automatic For the People’ — but the band did play a single concert in support of the latter record, a Greenpeace benefit at the 40 Watt Club in Athens, Ga., exactly 20 years ago tonight.

Milestones: Peter Buck is 54 today; watch R.E.M. play ‘Country Feedback’ in 1995

Anyone who saw the ‘Monster’ tour in 1995 no doubt remembers that ‘Country Feedback,’ off 1991’s not-toured ‘Out of Time,’ was the set’s highlight, capped off each night with a mesmerizing solo from Peter Buck — a guitarist not generally prone to long turns in the spotlight.