Stereogum — Ever since R.E.M. broke up a few years ago, Michael Stipe has had some free time, and he’s become something of a man-about-town in New York: showing up on Colbert, making speeches at awards ceremonies, writing music for films. For his latest endeav... more info

Stereogum — For the 25th anniversary of The Simpsons, the merchandising machine behind the show has been going all out with an FXX marathon, Hollywood Bowl concerts, cosmetics, and the release of collectible figures of various guest stars. Today The National Ent... more info

Pop Candy — The R.E.M. bassist and Big Star enthusiast talks about the band's lasting influence. more info

Pop Candy — Tuesday's headlines also include R.E.M., '84 movies and James Kochalka. more info

Pop Candy — A reader talks about seeing The Baseball Project at (where else?) a baseball stadium. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher We already heard two songs from the new Blonde Redhead album, Barragan, and they've now put out a third, "The One I Love" (not an REM cover). It starts off as a soft acoustic number but more... more info

Stereogum — We’ve been posting songs all summer by Screaming Trees drummer Barrett Martin’s instrumental collective Tuatara, the band that recorded NPR’s All Songs Considered theme song among other accomplishments. Here’s another one. R.E.M.’s Peter Bu... more info

Stereogum — Tuatara is a band with a lot of pedigree: started by R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck, the Screaming Trees’ Barrett Martin, Luna and the Chills’ bassist Justin Harwood, and saxophone player Skerik in the late ’90s, they’ve been consistently puttin... more info

Pop Candy — Whitney shares a few of the concert videos she's loving from the huge YouTube channel. more info

Stereogum — Tonight, Logo TV is airing its Trailblazers special, which pays tribute to pioneers for LGBT equality. The event features a lot of musicians, including the former R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe, there to present an award to John Abadallah Wambere, an ... more info