I wouldn’t know how to stop the tour, it would continue with me at home in a way that I’ve learned better now. Michael Stipe said the way to do that is you have to allow yourself to be ill ...

Every generation has their “our childhood heroes are how old now?” moment — jaws surely dropped when Rita Hayworth turned 65, which is the precise age she became soon after Stipe’s band, R.E.M., ...

For more than three decades, Michael Stipe was the lead singer of R.E.M ... in front of a live studio audience on the West Coast. Now, a bronze plaque hangs outside “The Lucy Stage” at ...

R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe has encouraged people to boycott Facebook and Instagram over their role in “helping advance the far right in America”. The singer has called for people to log out from ...

With songs like “Drive” and “Everybody Hurts,” R.E.M. used delicate instrumentation to say something powerful. But on the follow-up, Monster, the Athens, Georgia, band chose to get loud. However, for ...

In terms of adapting to the now-gigantic setting, the band took inspiration from their old pals U2, Stipe said. “It was presenting it in a way that was pulling from the work they did with Achtun ...

Among them are Michael Stipe of R.E.M. (who already quit X last fall), Jane Wiedlin of the Go-Go’s, and Carole King. King directed followers to her Bluesky account. It will be interesting to see ...

Michael Stipe and Jon Bon Jovi joined forces on Sunday ... which also included his and Big Red Machine’s “No Time for Love ...

R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe had been added to the 38th annual Tibet House US Benefit Concert, taking place March 3 at ...

R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe has encouraged people to boycott Facebook, Instagram and all platforms owned by Meta over their role in “helping advance the far right in America.” The singer ...

Meanwhile R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe is taking a “break” from Instagram due to changes to the company’s fact-checking programme. The backlash towards social media continues after the weekend ...