In September 2024, Carbon Leaf released its first full new album in a decade, Time is the Playground .
In 2024, during their first interview as a foursome in 27 years, the band was asked what it would take for them to re-form. “A comet”, replied Mills. “Superglue”, added Berry. When asked why it would not happen, Buck stated, “It would never be as good.”
Carbon Leaf followed up with another five song EP titled Gathering Vol. 2: The Hunting Ground in September 2021.
In September 2021, a decade after disbanding, Stipe reiterated that R.E.M. had no intention of regrouping: “We decided when we split up that that would just be really tacky and probably money-grabbing, which might be the impetus for a lot of bands to get back together.” In 2023, R.E.M. was…
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In October 2019, during the presentation of his book of photographs in Rome, Stipe said: “I’m having dinner with Mike (Mills) just tomorrow night in London and I spoke to Peter (Buck) last night, we’re good friends but R.E.M.’s time it’s over, that’s it”.
In 2018, the band’s 25th anniversary year, Carbon Leaf released a five song album, Gathering: vol. 1 which was their first release of new songs since 2013.
In March 2016, R.E.M. signed a publishing administration deal with Universal Music Publishing Group . In March 2017, R.E.M. left Broadcast Music, Inc. , who had represented their performance rights for their entire career, and joined SESAC . The first release under SESAC was the 2018 box set R.E.M. at…
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Nothing Rhymes with Woman in 2016.
In 2014, Unplugged: The Complete 1991 and 2001 Sessions was released for Record Store Day . Download collections of I.R.S. and Warner Bros. rarities followed. Later in the year, R.E.M. compiled the video album box set REMTV , which collected their two Unplugged performances along with several other documentaries and…
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They repeated this tactic with their album Love, Loss, Hope, Repeat in 2015