Michael Stipe and Big Red Machine, Brandi Carlile and Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit are among the artists lending their work to a new double album, Democracy Forward, to benefit the group of the same ...

When Michael Stipe was little, his parents called him Mr. Mouse. He was a scurrier. As soon as he could stand, he ran, and when he ran, he ran until he face-planted.

R.E.M. fans, Michael Stipe doesn’t have encouraging news when it comes to ever seeing the seminal rock band ever together again. In a new interview for New York public radio station WNYC, Stipe ...

Frontman Michael Stipe has… Ever since R.E.M. amicably split in 2011, the individual members have remained resolute regarding their disinterest in a reunion, and have kept active otherwise.

When Michael Stipe first started engaging with outsider art, he was a young buck learning the curious folkways of Athens, Georgia, while on the cusp of fronting the storied rock band R.E.M. Now ...

MICHAEL STIPE ALMOST DIED in the wilderness when he was fourteen, so for the next four years he never went outside and hated the chaos of trees. "I was a Boy Scout," he said.

Lifelong Velvet Underground fan Michael Stipe on discovering 'Loaded' on an 8-track tape, his friendship with Lou Reed and the pleasures of out-of-tune singing.

Former R.E.M. singer Michael Stipe appeared on The Late Show Thursday and remembered when he shushed Donald Trump during his friend Patti Smith's concert ...

R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe discusses his life in LA in the mid-’80s, at a time when he and Deirdre were kindred spirits pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable within mainstream culture — and how ...

Michael Stipe is one of the artists performing at the upcoming tribute concert for David Bowie at Radio City Music Hall (Patti Smith, The Roots, Laurie Anderson and Blondie are among the many others).

For many years, Michael Stipe, who turned 64 in January, was the lead singer of R.E.M., a now-defunct rock band that formed in Athens, Georgia in 1980.

When Michael Stipe turned 65, he handled it the way we all hope we will when we turn 65: with grace and calm. Cobain may live on in myth. But R.E.M. lives on in life.