Some of the sold-out crowd at Metro Friday night may have been there to see Michael Shannon, the actor, but most were there to hear R.E.M. — how else do you explain hundreds of people singing along ...

Watch video clips of R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe singing with Patti Smith at her recent New York City show celebrating her ‘Horses’ album’s 50th anniversary.

Michael Shannon has been a big R.E.M. fan for a long time. The actor has been taking that to the next level lately, as he and veteran musician Jason Narducy are in the midst of an R.E.M. tribute tour ...

Oscar-, Emmy- and Tony-nominated actor Michael Shannon led a two-hour-plus R.E.M. tribute concert at Turner Hall Ballroom in Milwaukee Thursday. Leading the band with Shannon was Jason Narducy (Bob ...

He’s performed Samuel Beckett on Broadway and memorized scripts for Oscar-nominated movies and Emmy-winning TV shows. So it shouldn’t be surprising Michael Shannon remembered lyrics to a bunch of rock ...

On Thursday, Feb. 27, Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy touched down at Athens, Ga.’s 40 Watt Club to bring their Fables of the Reconstruction tribute tour back to where it all started. The unlikely ...

What was R.E.M.? It depends on who you are. Outside of U2, the Athens, Ga., quartet was the biggest rock band on the planet in the 1990s. But for those who followed its early career as America’s most ...

If there's ever going to be a Michael Stipe biopic, Michael Shannon has aced the unofficial audition. Since last year, the Oscar-, Emmy- and Tony-nominated actor has taken on an interesting new role: ...