REM line up guest stars for new album

The REM band's bass guitar player Mike Mills has revealed,REM's forthcoming album features a series of cameos from various music stars.

Album Collapse Into Now has been ready to release in the start of January 2011,the album includes the contribution from Patti Smith, Peaches and Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder.

He said that the album has different variety of songs which will definitely be appreciated by their fans

"We wanted to put more variety into it," the bass guitar player explained.

"There are some really slow, beautiful songs, there are some nice, mid-tempo ones and then there are three or four rockers."

Berlin, New Orleans and Nashville are the main locations where they records the album and really enjoyed visiting that places

Earlier this year, REM's 1981 single Radio Free Europe was selected as one of 25 songs to be included in the US National Recording Registry housed at the Library of Congress.