'90s alt-pop professionals Garbage and Jersey basement-punk heroes Screaming Females have an unlikely bond. They toured together last year, and Scremales leader Marissa Paternoster joined Garbage…   Read Story »

Just yesterday we got the news that French pop gods Phoenix had set a date for their return, and today, we get their first announced US date: at New Orleans Jazz And Heritage Festival. The Jazz…   Read Story »

It's hard to say why this is just surfacing now, but the movie star and conceptual joker James Franco directed a video for "Blue," a Patti Smith collaboration from R.E.M.'s 2011 album Collapse Into…   Read Story »

Screaming Females are on tour with Garbage -- which is a good look -- and on Tuesday night in Houston, Garbage's Shirley Manson brought out Marissa Paternoster to cover Patti Smith's "Because The…   Read Story »

Achtung Baby, the album on which U2 discovered dance beats and self-awareness and essentially cemented their all-timer credentials, turns 20 in November. The band is already celebrating that big…   Read Story »

Last night Rock & Roll Hall Of Famer Patti Smith became the last living New Yorker to appear in an episode of Law & Order. The Godmother Of Punk made a cameo in a Criminal Intent about an actor's…   Read Story »

Hopefully by now you've heard Smother, the third album from Wild Beasts. As with all their records, it feels like it comes out of nowhere. And as always, I have trouble finding reference points to…   Read Story »

R.E.M.'s fifteenth studio album, the twelve-song Jacknife Lee-produced Collapse Into Now, is due in early 2011. SPIN spoke with Mike Mills, who says it'll have a more "expansive" sound than 2008's…   Read Story »

Vedder, Smith, and Depp were in Little Rock, Arkansas last night for a benefit for the West Memphis 3, the three now-adults convicted of killing three children in West Memphis, Arkansas in 1993,…   Read Story »

This past Friday we sent Dominick Mastrangelo to the 20th Annual Tibet House Benefit at Carnegie Hall. The lineup included longtime legends (Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, the concert's Artistic Director…   Read Story »