Michael Stipe recently released his first two solo singles, "Your Capricious Soul" and "Drive To The Ocean." The R.E.M. singer also has a new photo book called Our Interference Times: A Visual Record combining digital and analog imagery. He sat for an interview on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert last night to discuss all…

If you watched Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story, the Martin Scorsese documentary that came out on Netflix last year, you got some idea of what an otherworldly, supernatural presence Patti Smith was in the '70s. Smith had one of the best moments in the film, and this is a movie about Bob Dylan…

After releasing their heavily anticipated album A Deeper Understanding in 2017, subsequently touring behind it through 2018, and along the way becoming bigger than plausibly expected even following the success of Lost In The Dream, the War On Drugs have kept pretty quiet through 2019. Maybe that means something's on the horizon for 2020? In&...

"It’s about time I was asked to curate Meltdown darling, don’t you think?!”Grace Jones will curate next year's Meltdown Festival Grace Jones has been announced as the curator for the 2020 Meltdown Festival at the Southbank Centre. Next year’s festival will run from June 12-21 and will see Jones join an illustrious list of names w...

A total of 24 songwriters are up for induction into the 2020 classOutKast, R.E.M. and Patti Smith are up for induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2020. A total of 24 performing and non-performing songwriters were nominated for the Songwriters Hall of Fame. The list of nominees was published by Associated Press on November 5. Other nota...