The Red Radio — The music of R.E.M. was celebrated last night in a tribute show at NYC's Carnegie Hall. Calexico took the role of the house band for the evening while Kristen Hersh, The Apples In Stereo, The Feelies, Fink, Marshall Crenshaw, and... more info

Rolling Stone — A wide assortment bands and singers including Patti Smith, Kimya Dawson, the Feelies and Darius Rucker turned out at New York’s famed Carnegie Hall last night to pay tribute to R.E.M. by reinterpreting songs from the band’s back catalog before th... more info

ContactMusic — MICHAEL STIPE jumped at the chance to watch a New York charity performance of R.E.M. songs - because it's the only opportunity he'll ever get to hear his own music live ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — John Wesley Harding's Cabinet of Wonders (more by Lori Baily) today in NYC * DANCE * Reggie Watts @ The Studio * Let's Wrestle @ Maxwell's * REM Tribute @ Carnegie Hall * Hall & Oates @ Irving Plaza *... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — John Wesley Harding's Cabinet of Wonders (more by Lori Baily) today in NYC * DANCE * Reggie Watts @ The Studio * Let's Wrestle @ Maxwell's * REM Tribute @ Carnegie Hall * Hall & Oates @ Irving Plaza *... more info

TMZ — Filed under: Paparazzi Photo, Music, Wacky & Weird, Full Throttle Fashion Everybody hurts ... even Michael Stipe.The destitute chic 49-year-old REM frontman was snapped in NYC on Tuesday, looking for a garden to accessorize and call home. See Also ... more info

New York Post — R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe doesn't seem the type to charge angrily into a room and flip a man out of his wheelchair. But singer Vic Chesnutt, paralyzed by a 1982 car accident when he was just 18, says Stipe did just that. "One time in the early '9... more info

Idolator — On the watching-Bush-speak-level-of-awkward new Late Night With Jimmy Fallon show last night, ex-Blogodsâ„¢ Clap Your Hands Say Yeah debuted a new song, "Statues," which was immediately available for download in "demo" form right after the perfo... more info

ContactMusic — Rockers PATTI SMITH, GLEN HANSARD and BOB MOULD will headline a tribute concert in honour of R.E.M. in New York next week (11Mar09). The singers are among a host of ... more info

NME — REM are set to be honoured by 20 acts at Carnegie Hall in New York next week (March 11). more info