Eddie Vedder, Patti Smith and Peaches all sing on new record

Patti Smith has received the U.S. National Book Award

Singer's memoir wins National Book Award in US

There have been numerous tributes to the life and work of John Lennon this year, in honor of what would have been his 70th birthday, but one of the largest and most musically ambitious took place recently at the Beacon Theater in New York,

R.E.M.’s fifteenth studio album, the twelve-song Jacknife Lee-produced Collapse Into Now, is due in early 2011. SPIN spoke with Mike Mills, who says it’ll have a more “expansive” sound than 2008’s Accelerate. Part of that expansion comes via guest spots from Eddie Vedder, Patti Smith, and, of cou...