Appropriately enough, Wednesday night's benefit tribute concert at New York's Carnegie Hall in honor of pioneering musician, author and icon Patti Smith began with a poem. Not just any poem: It was ...

There were also recitations of Patti’s poetry and other writing from Michael Shannon, Sean Penn, Scarlett Johansson, and Jim Jarmusch. At the end of the night, Patti herself came out and recited ...

Smith’s longtime friends and collaborators gave particularly striking performances, such at Michael Stipe’s rendition of “My Blakean Year” alongside her tried and true backing band of Tony ...

Credit: Taylor Hill/Getty Images Bruce Springsteen, Michael Stipe, Johnny Depp, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Karen O were among the stars who gathered in New York's iconic Carnegie Hall last night ...

Celebrated artists and actors, including Bruce Springsteen, Michael Stipe and Scarlett Johansson, took the stage in tribute. Out & about Celebrated artists and actors, including Bruce Springsteen ...

With Philip Glass and Laurie Anderson serving as co-artistic directors, the night included performances by Anderson, Patti Smith, Jackson Browne, Michael Stipe, Orville Peck, Arooj Aftab ...

The original members of R.E.M., including Michael Stipe, briefly took the stage for a surprise appearance. They joined the set of Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy, who performed their R.E.M ...

Many popular rock songs have strange or bizarre lyrics, but few manage to make them totally work for their music.

Stipe has said that the band "will never reunite." Shannon told the Southerner that he and lead singer Michael Stipe had lunch together before Shannon’s performance in the band’s hometown of ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Michael Stipe, the former lead singer of R.E.M., is speaking at the Koger Center for the Arts in Columbia on Wednesday. Stipe is speaking as the 2025 Honoree for the McNair ...

And over the course of the next two-odd hours, those songs did indeed travel, carried by Bruce Springsteen, Michael Stipe, Karen O, Scarlett Johansen, Sean Penn, Kim Gordon, Maggie Rogers ...