Patti Smith News

tix on sale: Patti Smith, Superchunk, Pinback, FLAG, The Cult, Baroness, Odd Future, Two Door Cinema Club, Killers + more

Tickets to see Baroness and Royal Thunder at Irving Plaza go on sale today at 10 AM.

Patti Smith playing Federico Garcia Lorca tribute at Bowery Ballroom & other dates, played Stubb's in Austin (pics, dates)

Patti Smith will play Bowery Ballroom on June 5.

PHOTOS: Punk Legend Patti Smith Hits The Vic

Legendary punk provocateur Patti Smith returned on Monday to her birthplace to play a sold-out gig at the Vic Theatre.

Garbage cover Patti Smith for Record Store Day 2013

Recently-reformed alt-rock ever-presents, Garbage have teamed up with New Jersey threepiece Screaming Females to cover Patti Smith for Record Store Day. The international vinyl celebration takes place this Saturday (20 April), with one of the last minute releases announced to be this rendition of Smith's classic 'Because The Night'.

Garbage and Screaming Females covers Patti Smith’s “Because the Night” for Record Store Day

Reunited alt-rockers Garbage and rising New Jersey rock trio Screaming Females toured together last year, and on several occasions, the two bands shared the stage to cover Patti Smith's "Because The Night".

Yoko Ono Adds Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, Boy George & More To Line-Up As Creator Of Meltdown 2013

From John Peel through to Massive Attack, via David Bowie, Patti Smith, Morrissey and more, Meltdown has given seminal artists the chance to pick their favourite artists to play and exhibit their work at Southbank Centre.

Patti Smith Meets The Pope

US punk rocker Patti Smith shook hands with Pope Francis at a general audience in St Peter's Square on Wednesday, saying afterwards she found the new pontiff "very interesting" and "liked him a lot".

Patti Smith, Iggy & The Stooges, Siouxsie confirmed for Yoko Ono's Meltown

The line-up for this year's Meltdown festival has been announced.

Yoko Ono-curated Meltdown Festival book Patti Smith, Siouxsie Sioux, Savages & more

Yoko Ono is set to host this year's Meltdown Festival at London's Southbank Centre, revealing a star-studded line-up carefully curated.

Steven Rosen: Patti Smith's Cincinnati Art Exhibit Will Be a Robert Mapplethorpe Tribute

Although the Patti Smith exhibit that will open at downtown Cincinnati's Contemporary Art Center on May 17 has been announced for some time, the details are only now becoming known.

Patti Smith Performs Surprise Show At The Beach

Rockaway Beach, a Queens neighborhood hit hard by Hurricane Sandy in October, is still rough around the edges.

Screaming Females' Marissa joined Garbage at Wellmont Theatre (pics), releasing their Patti Smith cover for #RSD13

Garbage 's current tour with IO Echo hit the NYC area last night (3/20) at The Wellmont Theatre in New Jersey.

Scribes Sounding Off: Richard Hell’s Dream... and Interview in Seattle 3/21

I Dreamed I Was A Very Clean Tramp is exactly the succulently-written, shit-talking, salty dog memoir you'd want from the man who dreamed and ignited punk.

Patti Smith Summons Musical Ghosts at Art Gallery of Ontario Performance

Patti Smith knows how to commune with the dead.

Patti Smith Holds Court at Toronto Art Gallery

What came after was perhaps the most moving of all her homages: she read a letter she had written to Mapplethorpe a couple of days before he died.

Classic Album: Patti Smith Group - Easter

Patti Smith's third album, 'Easter', hits the ripe old age of thirty-five this year, but is still as vital - in both sound and prominence - as it was in 1978.

10 Musicians Turned Photographers: Michael Stipe, Patti Smith, Bryan Adams & More

Successful touring musicians often live fishbowl lives -- the center of attention, gawked at, photographed.

Patti Smith to Narrate Tubby the Tuba on March 16

On Saturday March 16, The Little Orchestra Society is presenting the event of the season -- a performance of Tubby the Tuba , with narration by the legendary Patti Smith.

Report: Tibet House Benefit at Carnegie Hall, Featuring Ariel Pink, tUne-yArDs, Jim James, More

Last night's 23rd annual Tibet House Benefit concert at Carnegie Hall -- curated by Philip Glass and featuring tUne-yArDs, Ariel Pink, Jim James, Ira Glass, and Patti Smith among others-- was one of the least least self-important benefit concerts I've ever seen.

Tibet House US 23rd Annual Benefit in pics (Jim James, Merrill Garbus, Ariel Pink, Patti Smith, Philip Glass, & Rahzel)

The 23rd Annual Tibet House Benefit Concert went down at Carnegie Hall last night (2/21) with Jim James, Merrill Garbus (aka tUnE-yArDs), Ariel Pink, Patti Smith, Rahzel, Tenzin Choegyal, Jesse Smith, and artistic director Philip Glass , with backing from Scorchio Quartet , dancing from This American Life 's Ira Glass , and an opening Monk chant.

Patti Smith, Jim James Top Tibet Benefit in New York

Six monks from the Drepung Gomang Monastery opened Thursday's event with a chant blessing, a meditative introduction to a prolific, if jarring, handful of musicians Tibet House co-founder Philip Glass recruited from a list of 80.

Mix/Cover/Live #816 (feat. Patti Smith & more)

Ariel Pink, Rahzel And Patti Smith Join Philip Glass' Tibet House Benefit

If there's one thing Philip Glass knows how to do besides compose an avant-garde masterpiece, it's curate an impressive musical showcase.

Tibet House 23rd Annual Benefit Concert -- initial lineup & tix (Jim James, tUnE-yArDs, Patti Smith, Philip Glass & more)

The Tibet House Annual Benefit Concert will return for its 23rd year at Carnegie Hall on February 21.

Patti Smith to Write More Memoirs

Patti Smith won a National Book Award for her 2010 memoir Just Kids [ Amazon link ] but she isn't stopping there.

Nick Cave, Patti Smith, Eddie Vedder to feature on 'West of Memphis' soundtrack

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, Patti Smith and Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam are set to feature on the soundtrack for West of Memphis , a film about the West Memphis Three.

Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, Tom Waits, Courtney Love for Johnny Depp's 'pirate' compilation

The album is being put together by Johnny Depp , director Gore Verbinski and producer Hal Willner and follows their similar 2006 effort, 'Rogue's Gallery'.

Neil Young & Crazy Horse & Patti Smith played Barclays Center (setlist, videos)

"It's an indisputable fact that the Barclays Center has one of the best veggie burgers in Brooklyn, somehow."

'West of Memphis' Soundtrack Includes Nick Cave, Bob Dylan, Patti Smith

Voices For Justice , an album of music from and inspired by the new documentary about the West Memphis Three.

Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Patti Smith, Band of Horses, Bob Dylan, Henry Rollins Featured on West Memphis Three Documentary Soundtrack

Earlier this year, it was reported that Bad Seeds / Grinderman bandmates Nick Cave and Warren Ellis were scoring another film together.

Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Patti Smith, and Everest played Madison Square Garden (pics, review, setlists)

When Neil Young walked out in a saggy red flannel last night (11/27) at the Madison Square Garden stop on his first tour with Crazy Horse in almost a decade , the "Godfather of Grunge" alarms were going off like crazy.

Neil Young played TD Garden (setlist), hits MSG tonight; "Neil Young Series" on display at Morrisson Hotel Gallery

Because he's trained his audience to not need an hour of hits, because he doesn't have to sing like Brian Wilson or shake his behind in chaps like David Lee Roth, his sound and delivery endure.

Patti Smith – Live at Montreux (2012)

Patti Smith fans, long starved for in-concert material, have seen a veritable tidal wave of live releases lately — including three albums between 2005-08 and then the Live in France DVD from last year.

Patti Smith, R.E.M.: Lindsey Lohan Appears In Video For R.E.M.'s "Blue," Directed By James Franco (Video)

According to Lindsay Lohan, she and James Franco are " like best friends " and they hang out.

Watch Patti Smith interview Neil Young about his memoir

Back in June, Neil Young and Patti Smith talked shop at New York City's BookExpo America.