Patti Smith, Dave Matthews, and Michael Stipe are among the artists set to take part in the World Environment Day livestream concert happening on June 4th at 3 p.m. ET. The virtual concert was organized by Pathway to Paris, 350.org, and the United Nations Environment Program North America Region, and …
Read More »R.E.M. Celebrate 40th Anniversary of 'Radio Free Europe' With New Reissue
R.E.M. will reissue their classic 1981 debut single, “Radio Free Europe,” this summer, making it available in its original form for the first time in 40 years. “Radio Free Europe (Original Hib-Tone Single)” will be available as a 45-rpm seven-inch on July 23rd, pressed in Athens, Georgia, with the original …
Read More »Michael Stipe Helps Name Ant Species After Andy Warhol Superstar
A German entomologist and a research associate at Yale University, with some help from R.E.M.‘s Michael Stipe, have named a new ant species Strumigenys ayersthey, after Charles “Jeremy” Ayers, the artist and political activist who was part of Andy Warhol‘s legion of “Superstars” as the gender-bending Silva Thin. The story …
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