Achtung Baby, the album on which U2 discovered dance beats and self-awareness and essentially cemented their all-timer credentials, turns 20 in November. The band is already celebrating that big…   Read Story »

Last night Rock & Roll Hall Of Famer Patti Smith became the last living New Yorker to appear in an episode of Law & Order. The Godmother Of Punk made a cameo in a Criminal Intent about an actor's…   Read Story »

Hopefully by now you've heard Smother, the third album from Wild Beasts. As with all their records, it feels like it comes out of nowhere. And as always, I have trouble finding reference points to…   Read Story »

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…   Read Story »

Vedder, Smith, and Depp were in Little Rock, Arkansas last night for a benefit for the West Memphis 3, the three now-adults convicted of killing three children in West Memphis, Arkansas in 1993,…   Read Story »

This past Friday we sent Dominick Mastrangelo to the 20th Annual Tibet House Benefit at Carnegie Hall. The lineup included longtime legends (Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, the concert's Artistic Director…   Read Story »

"A half-century ago we lost Camus and gained Stipe. The lord takes and the lord gives." - Patti Smith   Read Story »

The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame celebrated a quarter century as the self-appointed, oft-suspect gatekeeper for canonical artists in the rock world (no Replacements, no Sonic Youth, no etcs. -- no vote…   Read Story »

Between Ben and Zooey, Ryan and Mandy, and this morning's news about Trent and Mariqueen, maybe we should start to an Indie Rock Nuptials category? SundayStylesGum would be remiss not to also…   Read Story »

If you love R.E.M. and weren't at Carnegie Hall last night, you should probably do a better job at loving R.E.M. The evening was billed as a tribute to the Athenian eye-smilers, which meant…   Read Story »