Sea.Hear.Now Brings Pearl Jam and Good Times to Asbury Park (photos)
Pearl Jam recently brought Gigaton tracks and adoring fans to Asbury Park’s unique beach festival, Sea.Hear.Now.
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Patti Smith Rebuilt the World on 1996’s ‘Gone Again’
Patti Smith’s Gone Again, released 25 years ago, is imbued with grief, but the album’s themes are renewal, resilience, and perseverance in the face of loss.
The 100 Best Alternative Singles of the 1980s: 40 – 21
We present the best punk, post-punk, new wave, college rock, goth, industrial, new romantic, ska, power pop, hardcore, and indie rock singles of the 1980s.
Counterbalance 19: Patti Smith -‘Horses’
One of the most critically-acclaimed debuts in rock history, Patti Smith’s Horses is a whirlwind of poetry and proto-punk rock. Counterbalance takes Horses for a ride -- go Rimbaud and go Johnny go!
Tibet House’s 2020 US Benefit Concert Rocked with Iggy Pop and Patti Smith
Patti Smith brought down the house at the annual Tibet House benefit as she first paid tribute to Kurt Cobain and Allen Ginsberg with "About a Boy" and "Don't Say Nothing'".
Patti Smith’s ‘Wave’ Turns 40: Why the Punk Poet’s Pop Album Is Also Her Greatest
Wave's status as Patti Smith's most unapologetically pop album reveals the most authentically "punk" gesture of her career: rejecting the idea that her genre capabilities begin and end with that four-letter word.
Patti Smith’s ‘Year of the Monkey’: Is She Evolving? Are We?
Year of the Monkey makes clear that the Godmother of Punk still delivers every time. But what have we done to Patti Smith with our worship?
Scorsese and Dylan: A Match Made in Fantasy
In Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story, a cinematic genius and a Nobel Prize-winning musical icon pair for a magical and purposefully deceptive look at rock 'n' roll life in the mid-'70s.
Mary Lee Kortes Preps New Book, ‘Dreaming of Dylan: 115 Dreams About Bob Dylan’, Releases New Song (premiere + interview)
Longtime Bob Dylan favorite Mary Lee Kortes presents a book of dreams about the man. Patti Smith, Jimbo Mathus, others contribute.
The Poets Are Angry: Patti Smith, However, Is Not
Whatever anger has landed on her heart in the jungles of Trumplandia, Patti Smith consistently performs the miracle of putting it down, as seen in her recently published prose-poem, The New Jerusalem.
The Beat Goes on with ‘Kerouac on Record’
These essays explore the connection between Kerouac and the music he loved -- Charlie Parker, Lee Konitz, Chet Baker, Miles Davis and others -- and the musicians who loved him, in turn.
“Build It Back Again” at Tibet House US Benefit Concert
The artists, curated by Philip Glass, on stage at the 31st Annual Tibet House US Benefit encouraged resistance.
