REM

Today’s picks for amazing live videos to watch while there are no actual shows to attend include R.E.M. in 1984, Hüsker Dü in 1985, Sex Pistols’ final show in 1978, and more.

This was the last of Ben’s daily livestreams, but he mentioned he’ll be doing one a week starting this Thursday (4/2) ”every week into the foreseeable future as long as people are quarantined.”

The prolific drummer also played with R.E.M., Nine Inch Nails, Revoting Cocks, Pigface, KMFDM, and more.

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Plus: more tributes to Gill from Blur’s Graham Coxon, Greg Dulli, The Futureheads, REM’s MIke Mills, Colin Meloy, Noveller’s Sarah Lipstate, Geoff Rickly and more.

Plus: Michael talks Greta Thunberg, his favorite Radiohead song, and more.

Former R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe turns 60 today — happy birthday, Michael! — and he’s given us a present in the form of his second-ever solo single

Michael Stipe & Douglas Coupland’s new photo book, Our Interference Times: A Visual Record, is out now

Listen to new songs by Buddy, Amanda Palmer, Haim, dvsn/Future, Foreseen, Pinegrove, Hannah Diamond, Charly Bliss, Maria McKee (Lone Justice) and more.

The 25th anniversary edition of R.E.M.’s ’Monster’ is out this week with a brand new mix of the album by original producer Scott Litt, that features entirely different vocal takes and “instrumental parts that were either buried or excised from the original album mix.”