Gigwise — Band complete work on fifteenth studio LP... more info

NME — The as-yet untitled studio effort is due out in spring 2011 more info

Idolator — Human drum machine Cory Monteith will belt out R.E.M.’s Grammy-winning 1991 hit “Losing My Religion” on the upcoming third episode of Glee’s second season. The only challenge with filming the sequence was that it was shot in reverse. “I had... more info

Undercover, Australia — R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe guest edits Gwyneth Paltrow’s goop e-newsletter. more info

Guardian Music — Frontman Win Butler hints at retiring, saying he can't see himself making music in 10 years' timeThirty years old and Win Butler is already mulling retirement. "I can't see myself doing this 10 years from now," the Arcade Fire leader explained in a n... more info

MTV.com News — McCoy was still in high school, but he vividly remembers the sad day.By Shaheem Reid Travie McCoy Photo: Frederick M. Brown/ Getty Images Monday (September 13) is the 14th anniversary of the death of Tupac Shakur. Pac died in 1996, after su... more info

KEXP Seattle — Listening to Guadalcanal Diary’s 1984 debut album for the very first time, I can’t help but wonder what the relationship must have been like between this Marietta, Georgia band and their Athens neighbors, REM. The two bands formed within a year o... more info

MTV.com News — Jonze went from directing Weezer's "Buddy Holly" video to an Oscar nomination for "Being John Malkovich."By Eric Ditzian David Fincher Photo: Pascal Le Segretain/ Getty Images Somewhere between directing Will Smith and then Robert Pattinson... more info

Guardian Music — Myrtle Park, BingleyThe small Yorkshire town of Bingley may be an unlikely home for a major pop festival, but the fourth Bingley Music Live has established itself as a cheaper, more family-friendly alternative to the giant Leeds. A bill stretched fro... more info

Song, by Toad — Ha! Any excuse to shoe-horn a bit of vintage REM into the equation! Although I’ve probably desecrated five millennia of Chinese mythology by misappropriating it like that. Sorry! So… Mr. and Mrs. Toad have invaded China to spread the good word of... more info