PopSugar — Obsessed with mermaids? We are too, and we've partnered with Freeform's Siren to bring you a Mermaid Museum in Los Angeles that's so magical you have to see it to believe it! Open to the public for four days, the space is outfitted in an eerily dark ... more info

Popdose — It’s 1993. “Alternative music” is not yet just the genre where we stick anything semi-popular that isn’t R&B or hip-hop. We still have space for bands that have graduated from college radio — R.E.M. (and a few other bands from my hometown o... more info

NME — At a gig in Los Angeles Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo performed a special solo acoustic set last weekend, covering songs by Oasis, REM, Pixies and Smashing Pumpkins. Cuomo …Continue reading » The post Watch Weez... more info

Stereogum — Weezer leader Rivers Cuomo played a solo acoustic set at The Hi Hat in Los Angeles this past Saturday. The performance lasted almost two hours and included lots of Weezer songs plus a few classic covers, and thanks to one industrious bootlegger, you ... more info

Consequence of Sound — Electroclash duo's first album in eight years was co-written and co-produced by R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe. more info

Stereogum — The great podcast U Talkin' U2 To Me is billed as "the comprehensive and encyclopedic compendium of all things U2." It's a claim as bold and bombastic as the band being documented, and -- to be perfectly fair -- it's a designation with which one migh... more info

Stereogum — In a situation that is surprisingly not the plot of a buddy comedy flick, Joseph Arthur and Peter Buck have formed a band after running into one another in a small Mexican town. The R.E.M. co-founder and Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter -- both of ... more info

Chicago Tribune — When reached by phone in Portland, Scott McCaughey’s affable voice comes through in between deeper breaths than usual as he walks back from a coffee shop to his home. It’s part of his physical therapy routine after a near-fatal stroke last Novemb... more info

KEXP Seattle — By Beverly Bryan Barrett Martin, best known as the drummer for Seattle grunge rockers Screaming Trees, was an integral part of Seattle’s music scene in the 1980s and ’90s. The drummer, producer, and composer has played on more than one hundred al... more info

Stereogum — Last year saw a smattering of new Fischerspooner tracks including the Michael Stipe co-write "Have Fun Tonight," the Caroline Polachek collaboration "Togetherness," and the delightfully titled "Butterscotch Goddam" featuring Johnny Magee. Today they'... more info