The Independent — A cover of REM's haunting ballad Everybody Hurts will be the Live Aid-style Haiti charity single and feature the likes of singer Leona Lewis, boy band JLS and veteran rocker Rod Stewart, it was revealed today. more info

MTV.com News — Group will record R.E.M.'s 'Everybody Hurts'; Coldplay, Paul McCartney have also been approached.By Jocelyn Vena Leona Lewis Photo: Theo Wargo/WireImage for Clear Channe Leona Lewis, Rod Stewart and Michael Bublé have all signed on for Si... more info

The Daily Mail — Sir Paul McCartney and Elton John are close to signing up to join Leona Lewis, Susan Boyle, Take That and Alexandra Burke, alongside X Factor winner Joe McElderry on the single. more info

Sky News — Simon Cowell's charity single to help victims of the earthquake in Haiti will be a cover of REM's Everybody Hurts, according to Sky News sources. more info

Rolling Stone — Photo: Hill/WireImage Last week, to bemoan Conan O’Brien likely losing his job as The Tonight Show host, we asked for your favorite “Lost” Songs. The votes ranged from Rikki losing that number to being lost in the supermarket to misplacing tha... more info

Silent Uproar — Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol will team up with Richard Colburn of Belle and Sebastian as well as Peter Buck of R.E.M. for a new "country-tinged" side-project, Tired Pony. The group's album will be produced by Jacknife Lee. Lightbody is reportedly al... more info

411 Mania — This week in the PANR we have prosecutors looking at manslaughter charges against Michael Jackson’s doctor, Beyonce performs a private show for a wife beater, France wants to help musicians by taxing the internet while Spain plans on shuttin... more info

Live Daily — As loyal LD visitors know, we’ve really spiffed things up since this time last year – and part of the new look and feel has been the broadening of our live music photo content. Within a two year time span the live music photography t... more info

Guardian Music — The 13th Floor Elevators frontman will return with his first album of original songs in more than a decade. And he's hired Austin indie-rockers Okkervil River as his backing band13th Floor Elevators' Roky Erickson will return with his first album of ... more info

The Vinyl Villain — Being familiar with the work of Marcus Gray thanks to having bought and read his 1997 book It Crawled From The South : An R.E.M. Companion, I had an idea in advance that the 500+pages that comprised Route 19 Revisited : The Clash and London Calling w... more info