R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe wrote “Shiny Happy People” in part to satirize pop music’s ability to entertain. Though the underlying themes of the lyrics are much more serious. But to most of the ...

“The band provided me with this ridiculous music and I had to, of course, kind of step up to it and try to elevate it even more into the absurd,” Stipe told NBC’s Today programme. “I came back with ...

This band's name is Citizen Smile, the kind that'll find some people grinning like a chimp on a birthday card and see others upchuck guts. See, these guys are disproving the idea that a band can't be ...

When the cover of Micky Dolenz Sings R.E.M. began circulating online earlier this month, many people presumed it was some sort of Photoshop prank. Dolenz did record a tribute album to Carole King in ...

The track comes from Dolenz Sings R.E.M., an upcoming tribute EP by the Monkees rocker due out Nov. 3. “Once again, this EP reaffirms my long-held conviction that a solid recording always begins with ...

After exposing the secrets behind the Duggar family in Season 1, “Shiny Happy People” is back on Prime Video with a new focus that’s not so different from the first. Instead of looking further at the ...

Prime Video’s new docuseries Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets takes a critical look at the family that starred in TLC’s hit reality series 19 Kids and Counting. Over four episodes, the show ...

Today, hundreds of thousands of babies and toddlers around the world like bugs because Weezer does. Those same kids know all about beatboxing because of rapper Biz Markie, and about good hygiene ...

For almost sixteen years now, James McNew has been commuting from Brooklyn to Hoboken, New Jersey, to spend hours on end, at least four or five times a week, with the same two people. And he’s pretty ...