Michael Stipe

The video also features Cyndi Lauper, Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Nick ZInner, Lenny Kaye and more and was made for National Voter Registration Day and the sixth anniversary of climate change awareness charity Pathways to Paris.

Michael also talked about an upcoming Lou Reed tribute he worked on with the late Hal Willner.

From shoegaze to Madchester, pop and hip hop, Sonic Youth to Cocteau Twins, it’s Indie Basement’s Top albums of 1990.

We’re always looking for new music documentaries to watch. Here are eight, ranging from The Go-Go’s to Taylor Swift, to the early days of the ’80s Bay Area thrash scene, the ’60s/’70s Laurel Canyon folk scene, and more.

‘CREEM: America’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Magazine’ features interviews with Alice Cooper, Cameron Crowe, Joan Jett, Gene Simmons, Wayne Kramer, Michael Stipe, Thurston Moore, and more.

Aaron confirmed that the song Michael Stipe recently performed on Colbert is indeed intended for Big Red Machine, and that he has 20 new songs recorded for the project, some of which he previewed…

The virtual festival also includes The Strokes’ Nikolai Fraiture, Tony Hawk, Ben Harper, and more…

Michael Stipe performed ”No Time For Love Like Now,” which was written with Aaron Dessner and which Colbert says is part of Dessner’s Big Red Machine project with Justin Vernon, for an at-home edition of ‘Colbert.’

Hal Wilner was a true forward thinker, a champion of the strange and a brilliant producer with a knack for unusual musical combinations and collaborations. Tributes have been pouring in since news of his death from coronavirus compilcations hit earlier today…

”Michael Stipe has been a great hero and friend to me and I never in my wildest dreams imagined writing songs together,” Aaron Dessner said of the collaboration.