Break-ups: No Fun At All (1991-2001, 2004-2012)

No Fun At All have called it a day, "once and for all," according to the folks organizing the Millencolin 20th Anniversary Festival. The Swedish band was set to play the festival, which takes place this June.

Break-ups: Thursday (1997-2011)

 

Thursday has announced an indefinite hiatus. The New Jersey post rock/hardcore band made this statement:

Despite the fantastic year that the band has enjoyed, creatively, things haven't been as easy for us on a personal level. Without diving into detail, it's fair to say that this year has been an endless series of personal difficulties. We haven't had any falling out and are all still close. I'm sure that we will continue to create, in some capacity, together. We've talked about turning Thursday into something else: a non-profit, a band that only records sporadically, a collection of other projects. Underneath it all, the personal circumstances involved make it impossible to continue Thursday in the spirit that has made it special. So, we stop. For now, at least.

Here is their full statement.

Thursday has released six albums:

• Waiting (1999)
• Full Collapse (2001)
• War All the Time (2003)
• A City by the Light Divided (2006)
• Common Existence (2009)
• No Devolución (2011)

Break-ups: R.E.M. (1980-2011)

 

R.E.M. has called it a day after thirty-one years together. Statements from each member of the group can be found on their website, but here's their joint statement:

"To our Fans and Friends: As R.E.M., and as lifelong friends and co-conspirators, we have decided to call it a day as a band. We walk away with a great sense of gratitude, of finality, and of astonishment at all we have accomplished. To anyone who ever felt touched by our music, our deepest thanks for listening."

R.E.M. was a seminal and influential part of the alternative and college rock scenes of the 1980s and 1990s, and helped lead the way for many others to break through to the mainstream. Their fifteenth and final album, Collapse Into Now, was released earlier this year.

R.E.M. has released fifteen albums:

• Murmur (1983)
• Reckoning (1984)
• Fables of the Reconstruction (1985)
• Lifes Rich Pageant (1986)
• Document (1987)
• Green (1988)
• Out of Time (1991)
• Automatic for the People (1992)
• Monster (1994)
• New Adventures in Hi-Fi (1996)
• Up (1998)
• Reveal (2001)
• Around the Sun (2004)
• Accelerate (2008)
• Collapse into Now (2011)