Michael Stipe News

Acclaimed singer, songwriter, and musician Rachael Yamagata today released her highly anticipated fourth studio album Tightrope Walker via Frankenfish Records/Thirty Tigers.

This morning, Placebo unveiled the video for their brand new single “Jesus' Son,” a track taken from the band's must-have retrospective hits album A Place For Us To Dream, slated for release on October 7th through Rise Records in the U.S.  Watch the video now via VEVO and YouTube.

Rise Records is extremely excited to add Placebo to their roster and kick things off with a limited edition 20-year retrospective release A Place For Us To Dream.

The new single from chanteuse Angela McCluskey, 'You & Me,' premiered today exclusively at Brightest Young Things. The complete album entitled The Roxy Sessions will be released on September 9th via Angela's own imprint, Bernadette Records.

Naked Light is the debut full length album of Brooklyn artist and musician Grey Gersten. In anticipation of the release, the first single “You Can't Stop“ premiered today via Stereogum.

R.E.M. has teamed with Capitol/UMe for the July 29 reissue of three of the band's I.R.S. Records releases: Lifes Rich Pageant, Dead Letter Office, and Eponymous.

Baltimore, MD's Outer Spaces is releasing their new album, A Shedding Snake, today with Don Giovanni Records.

After a few teaser tracks and an unhurried music video, Baltimore trio Outer Spaces are debuting their full length album, now streaming in full via Under the Radar.

Baltimore's Outer Spaces will release their debut full-length LP, A Shedding Snake, on May 27 with Don Giovanni Records.

Baltimore's Outer Spaces will release their debut full-length LP, A Shedding Snake, on May 27 with Don Giovanni Records.

NBC wins Tuesday among the Big 4 in every key measure, led by the #1 show of the night in 18-49, “The Voice,” while “Chicago Med” and “Chicago Fire” tie for the #2 show of the night.

On last night's TONIGHT SHOW, music guest Michael Stipe, who will be performing at two upcoming David Bowie tribute shows in New York to benefit music education charities, performed 'The Man Who Sold the World.'

Baltimore's Outer Spaces will release their debut full-length LP, A Shedding Snake, on May 27 with Don Giovanni Records.

A revolution a decade in the making, Sundance Institute celebrates the 10th Anniversary of its New Frontier program with an exhibition of new work at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, including immersive cinematic works, virtual reality installations, an extensive lineup of documentary and narrative mobile VR experiences and an inside look at the innovations being developed at some of world's leading media research labs. 10th Anniversary exhibitions will also be presented with MoMA in New York City in April, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis as part of Northern Spark in June.

Lakeshore Records will release the soundtrack for SUITS featuring original music by composer Christopher Tyng and “Greenback Boogie” performed by Ima Robot. The album will be available digitally on December 11th and on CD February 12, 2016.

“The Bee Gees are one of the strangest, most complicated, most brilliant groups ever to achieve pop stardom,” Rolling Stone's Josh Eells wrote in his 2014 profile of Barry Gibb. The new 80 Proof Media tribute album, To Love the Bee Gees: A Tribute to The Brothers Gibb, which will be released next Friday, November 27th, proves that yet again.

Cult sensation DINA MARTINA returns to New York with DINA MARTINA: FLAT & LACKING at The Laurie Beechman Theatre. After attaining cult status in her native town of Seattle and touring nationally, Martina's official New York debut in 2005 sold out in minutes. Her follow-up shows have left jaded audiences (including Alan Cumming, Michael Stipe, Whoopi Goldberg, John Waters, Matt Stone, John Cameron Mitchell, and Margaret Cho) stunned and clamoring for more.

Cult sensation DINA MARTINA returns to New York with DINA MARTINA: FLAT & LACKING at The Laurie Beechman Theatre. After attaining cult status in her native town of Seattle and touring nationally, Martina's official New York debut in 2005 sold out in minutes. Her follow-up shows have left jaded audiences (including Alan Cumming, Michael Stipe, Whoopi Goldberg, John Waters, Matt Stone, John Cameron Mitchell, and Margaret Cho) stunned and clamoring for more.

On Friday and Saturday, September 25th and 26th, choreographer, Gaspard Louis will bring his company, Gaspard & Dancers to perform their Trilogy which pays tribute to the people of Haiti who endured the horrific 2010 earthquake that caused devastation to the island nation. “The Trilogy was my own personal response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake,” says choreographer and Artistic Director, Gaspard Louis.

Today, more than 25 cultural influencers and 60 U.S. Mayors joined the coalition of best-in-class organizations and activists pledging to 'Wear Orange' a color that symbolizes the value of human life on June 2 nd