The show featured Patti Smith covers from friends and admirers like Michael Stipe, Karen O, Matt Berninger, Jesse Malin, Angel Olsen, Sharon Van Etten, and Kim Gordon, among many others.

Smith’s longtime friends and collaborators gave particularly striking performances, such at Michael Stipe’s rendition of “My Blakean Year” alongside her tried and true backing band of Tony ...

Celebrated artists and actors, including Bruce Springsteen, Michael Stipe and Scarlett Johansson, took the stage in tribute. Out & about Celebrated artists and actors, including Bruce Springsteen ...

“My Blakean Year,” also from Trampin’, always sounded a bit like an R.E.M. song, and Michael Stipe made that even more explicit with a hypnotic version that did indeed sound like an outtake ...

There were also recitations of Patti’s poetry and other writing from Michael Shannon, Sean Penn, Scarlett Johansson, and Jim Jarmusch. At the end of the night, Patti herself came out and recited ...

Johnny Depp, Bruce Springsteen and REM frontman Michael Stipe were among the musicians who performed onstage at the famous New York City venue during a tribute concert titled "People Have the ...

Stipe has said that the band "will never reunite." Shannon told the Southerner that he and lead singer Michael Stipe had lunch together before Shannon’s performance in the band’s hometown of ...

Kevin Michael Mangan, 70, of James Avenue in Burlington, died on March 20, 2025 at UVM Medical Center after a cardiac arrest. He was born on January 21, 1955 in Poughkeepsie, New York, the son of ...