Robert Smith announced he was leaving X (formerly Twitter) for now this past Sunday. The Cure’s frontman/guitarist tweeted on Sunday afternoon: “19TH JANUARY 2025. TIME TO GO. ANY OTHER ACCOUNT ON ...

R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe is leading a boycott of Meta platforms, alleging they are promoting far right views. The move was widely interpreted as a move to curry favour with incoming U.S.

Stipe’s decision to take part in a boycott of Meta platforms comes just days after CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the company’s decision to drop their fact-checking program for Facebook and Instagram, ...

It’s the end of the world as we know it... and we should be logging off. “Are we too addicted we can’t log off even for one week?” ...

For their final album, 'Collapse Into Now', REM included "indications" of their forthcoming split to hint to fans that their ...

With songs like “Drive” and “Everybody Hurts,” R.E.M. used delicate instrumentation to say something powerful. But on the follow-up, Monster, the Athens, Georgia, band chose to get loud. However, for ...

Going onstage each night on a tour that took in arenas and then stadiums across the globe was an experience that Stipe described as “nerve-wracking” but he said at every show, by the third ...

Every generation has their “our childhood heroes are how old now?” moment — jaws surely dropped when Rita Hayworth turned 65, which is the precise age she became soon after Stipe’s band, R.E.M., ...

For more than three decades, Michael Stipe was the lead singer of R.E.M. They made 15 albums together before splitting up in 2011. He largely retreated from music, but Stipe recently got back in ...

R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe has encouraged people to boycott Facebook and Instagram over their role in “helping advance the far right in America”. The singer has called for people to log out from ...