BBC

REM look back on Monster: 'We did not want to become the dancing monkey'

REM's ninth album, Monster, is the most challenging and polarising record the band ever released. When it arrived in 1994, the band were at the peak of their popularity, thanks to the acoustic beauty ...
The Quietus

Sex & Trash Aesthetics: REM’s Monster Revisited

Twenty years after the release of REM's Monster, Stewart Smith looks back at the awkward and highly sexual record which, he argues, is their queerest work This strategy seems all the more deliberate ...
Billboard

R.E.M.’s ‘Monster’ Returns to Billboard 200 Thanks to 25th-Anniversary Reissue

Thanks to a new 25th anniversary reissue, R.E.M.'s 1994 LP Monster re-enters the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Nov. 16) at No. 115, up 1,237% to 7,000 equivalent album units earned in the week… By ...
Uproxx

How R.E.M.’s ‘Monster’ Signaled The End Of Alternative Rock

Here’s a book pitch: A sequel to Michael Azerrad’s venerable Our Band Could Be Your Life, in which the story of American indie rock’s roots in the ’80s continues by delving into the boom and bust of ...
The Daily Telegraph

When REM created a Monster: inside the tour that almost destroyed them

But he wasn’t, so REM then made Monster, a project designed explicitly with the road in mind. They were as rich as kings by now. And yet a rock band could only avoid playing live for so long. “I love ...
Uncut

REM announce 25th anniversary reissue of Monster

REM have announced details of the 25th anniversary reissue of their 1994 album Monster. A five-CD, one-Blu-ray deluxe box set will include the original album, a special 2019 remix from Monster ...
Billboard

Chart Rewind: In 1994, R.E.M. Had a ‘Monster’ Week on the Billboard 200

The band notched the second of its two No. 1 albums. By Gary Trust Ben Wyatt: “Get this — I just asked the DJ what R.E.M. albums he has. He’s got Monster, but not Automatic for the People.” Leslie ...
Engadget

Seamlessly compare the 2019 remix of R.E.M.’s ‘Monster’ to the original

It's hard to believe, but it's been 25 years since R.E.M. released Monster. And, like any classic album approaching such a milestone, it's getting a massive reissue complete with a remastered version ...
NME

R.E.M. tell us about 25 years of ‘Monster’: “We needed swagger – to be loud and raw”

Watch above, as R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe and Mike Mills talk to Andrew Trendell about 25 years of 'Monster', the bittersweet tour after their break from the road, the deaths of Kurt Cobain and River ...
BBC

REM look back on Monster: 'We did not want to become the dancing monkey'

Michael Stipe: "We didn't want fame, we didn't want money, we wanted to be a vital creative band". When it arrived in 1994, the band were at the peak of their popularity, thanks to the acoustic beauty ...
BBC

REM look back on Monster: 'We did not want to become the dancing monkey'

Michael Stipe: "We didn't want fame, we didn't want money, we wanted to be a vital creative band". REM's ninth album, Monster, is the most challenging and polarising record the band ever released.