The next step in the reissuing of R.E.M.‘s catalog will be taken on Sept. 25 when they release an expanded 25th Anniversary Edition of their 1987 breakthrough album, ‘Document.’ The set contains the remastered album and a second disc of a concert recorded in Utrecht, Holland on Sept. 25, 1987.
After more than 30 years together, during which time they rose from critical alternative-rock favorites to international pop superstars and eventually Rock and Roll Hall of Fame status, R.E.M. announced Wednesday they have “called it a day as a band.”
Over the last 15 years or so, R.E.M. fans have grown accustomed to three-to-four-year waits between new albums — but it looks like the band is speeding things up for its next release.
With its most recent album, ‘Collapse Into Now,’ a mere four months old, R.E.M. is already in an Athens, Georgia studio working on the follow-up — and fans can follow their progress via a series of snapshots that singer Michael Stipe is posting along the way.
