Patti Smith

In Remembrance of Kurt Cobain: The Most Unique Nirvana Covers

Nineteen years ago today fans around the world got news Nirvana's Kurt Cobain had taken his own life in his Seattle home. As the years have passed, fans, peers, and friends of the musician and his pioneering grunge band have paid their respects through covering the band's material. Here now, from P ... More >>

BLANK GENERATION

Sex, drugs, and Richard Hell

FACTORY GIRL

Patti Smith pays tribute 
to Andy Warhol

Patti Smith Counts Down Her Top Five Operas

WQXR has just released a beautiful YouTube video of rocker/poet/memoirist/artist Patti Smith talking about her top five favorite operas. The list is pretty traditional (Wagner, Puccini, Verdi) in the Western European sense; and, given her close collaborative relationship with Philip Glass, it's a bi ... More >>

Patti Smith (11) Battles Lou Reed And The Velvet Underground (3) For Downtown Supremacy

Sound of the City's search for the quintessential New York City musician enters Round Two this week, with battles in the Round of 32 daily. Keep up with all the action here. Last time around Patti Smith showed John Zorn who has the power, and Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground got all "Venus In ... More >>

WORDSMITH

Patti Smith divulges her writing process

Live: Philip Glass Brings Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg, The Brooklyn Youth Chorus, And Music In 12 Parts To The Park Avenue Armory

The Park Avenue Armory on Friday night. ​This year's Park Avenue Armory Tune-In Music Festival was dedicated to honoring composer Philip Glass (who, in turn, turned over a large chunk of it to honoring Allen Ginsberg). Sound of the City attended three of the weekend's five offerings, which clo ... More >>

THE UNDERGROUND

Explore the early works of Amos Poe

Following Private Patti Smith Concert for Developers, a Flash Mob Is Planned at the Chelsea Hotel in Support of Tenants [Updated]

Last night Patti Smith was at the beleaguered Chelsea Hotel, playing what appears to have been a new-hotel-management-planned event to which tenants were not invited, but the architect and others were. New hotel management, for the record, is King & Grove, "a new lifestyle hotel brand defined by mod ... More >>

Patti Smith Moving Her New Year's Party Out Of Bowery Ballroom

Last week Patti Smith performed her annual series of year-end shows, and the Times reports that at the end of her Saturday-night gig she had an announcement: This year's New Year's residency would be her final one at the Bowery Ballroom. No word on where Smith's shows ringing out 2012 will be just y ... More >>

BECAUSE THE NIGHT

Patti Smith celebrates past, present, and future at Bowery Ballroom

Q&A: Amy Klein On The Blue Star Band, Talking Back On Tumblr, And Patti Smith's Message To The Kids

​The last time we checked in with Amy Klein, the Titus Andronicus guitarist/violinist told us about the genesis of the Brooklyn-based activist group Permanent Wave, which has since put on protests, panel discussions, and concerts. Between organizing benefit concerts and playing with both Titus ... More >>

Live: Yoko Ono And Son Bust Out The Rolodex (Lou Reed! Patti Smith! Antony!) For Japan

Better Than: Getting harassed by Lou Reed's manager. There's many perfectly valid reasons to find Sean Lennon deeply dubious. The main knock on the guy is that he uses the obscene wealth and ridiculous connections to date models, to hang around in feathered fedoras, and to release solo albums per ... More >>

Live: The Roots, The Flaming Lips, Michael Stipe, And Patti Smith Dominate Carnegie Hall's Tibet House Benefit

Patti Smith, leading the charge as always. Pic by Tracy Ketcher.​21st-Annual Tibet House U.S. Benefit Concert Starring The Flaming Lips, the Roots, Taj Mahal, Michael Stipe, etc. Carnegie Hall Thursday, March 3 Better Than: "Auld Lang Syne" "Beauty is power -- violence is weak," we are told ... More >>

SWEETER THAN FICTION

See, memoirs can be punk

BOOKSHAKALAKA: The National Book Awards Jam Throws Down for 2010

The 2010 National Book Awards at the Cipriani Wall Street ballroom. All the people who were at these tables are still hungover.​An unlikely ballroom of people in the troubled business of literature -- publishers, editors, writers, reporters, and respective sycophants -- gather yearly to ostens ... More >>

A Brief Moment With Patti Smith, 2010 National Book Award Winner

Patti Smith, who did actually smile last night. Photo by Nate "Igor" Smith.​Patti Smith's memoir Just Kids won the 2010 National Book Award for nonfiction last night at the Cirpirani Ballroom on Wall Street. It was, to say the least, a surprising moment.

Bob Mould+Lenny Kaye

LITERARY POWWOW

PEN World Voices Festival opens with a battle of the sexes

Patti Smith and Metric Paid Tribute To Alexander McQueen at Last Night's LNA Afterparty at MILK Studios

Metric photo by Anne Koller. We'd have put the Patti Smith shot here, but it's sort of terrifying.​"When people like Alexander McQueen leave us so young we have to remember to live," Patti Smith said in between songs at last night's LNA afterparty at Chelsea's MILK Studios. "Don't forget, you' ... More >>

Week in Review: Fist Fight in the Parking Lot

In the week a chipped tooth kept Lil Wayne out of jail and a secretive, proprietary Billboard chart made a success out of his new, abysmal Rebirth, we pulled our Paul Wall grills out of the closet, just in case. You never know when your hood pass might get pulled, you know? Care for a Sightings p ... More >>

Dancing Barefoot: Patti Smith's Just Kids

A rock icon looks back at her youth

Patti Smith

'Ronnie Spector's Xmas Party'

BEAT IT

The legend of Jack Kerouac

GOTHAM GREATS

The coolest BFFs on this island or any other

The Choke+Fiasco+the Back C.C.s+GDFX

ODE TO THE NEW YEAR

Start ‘09 right with NYC’s finest performers

New Year's Eve 2009: New York Shows, Continued

New Year's Eve 2009, Continued

GOING, GOING, GONE!

Bid on original pieces by Thurston and Yoko

Patti Smith: Dream of Life—It's Not Patti's Fault

PLEASE DON’T STOP THE MUSIC

Kick off your shoes for three weeks of song and dance

Patti Smith & Kevin Shields's The Coral Sea

A gorgeous, non-twangy, earth-rageous prose poem

GHOSTS OF NEW YORK

The Chelsea Hotel celebrates its 125th anniversary

Performances & Live Music

TV in the Park

A gruff but still inspiring Television set: perfect for Father's Day weekend

Patti's Long-Gestating Covers Album

Patti Smith's Twelve

One Last Howl at the Marquee Moon

CBGB's death knell is finally real, even if your heartfelt nostalgia isn't

Last Night at CBGB. Want to Cry?

Is Metal the New Indie-Rock?

Bono Fide Rock

Following U2, from Apartheid on Long Island to a Garden in Midtown

Apocalypse Then

Patti Smith revives Horses on stage and disc to honor its 30th anniversary

Northern Exposures:

Clinton Does the Democratic Primaries

Artists run their mouths off on the first day of the year

Poetic Justice: New Year's Day dueling words marathons

Leader of the Secretarial Pool

Letters

Video Vanguard; Mensch Musician

November Songs