"If I had sung this song, it would not have been a hit" Springsteen says, before passionate performance of Because The Night at Patti Smith tribute gig in NYC ...

Thom Yorke doesn't believe he's the best songwriter but things this other lyricist is a total "genius", crediting for ...

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 ...

If there's ever going to be a Michael Stipe biopic, Michael Shannon has aced the unofficial audition. Since last year, the Oscar-, Emmy- and Tony-nominated actor has taken on an interesting new ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Shannon also talked about getting to sing “Pretty Persuasion” with Michael Stipe in Athens and Brooklyn. Shannon was also on Fallon to talk about his upcoming feature film directorial debut ...

“My Blakean Year,” also from Trampin’, always sounded a bit like an R.E.M. song, and Michael Stipe made that even more explicit with a hypnotic version that did indeed sound like an outtake ...

How do you get to Carnegie Hall? You gotta rock 'n' roll. Bruce Springsteen joined a tribute to fellow New Jesey rocker Patti Smith that included Michael Stipe, Johnny Depp, Flea, Sean Penn, Karen O, ...

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 ...