A rocker, poet and activist, Patti Smith is already a Renaissance woman. With her first major solo exhibit of drawings and photographs opening in Paris this week, she earns...
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Punk poet Patti Smith and
Split Enz veteran Tim Finn lead the lineup of musicians
performing at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah
(January 17-27).
Along with...
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Hilly Kristal, the founder of New York
punk rock club CBGB, which helped make the Ramones, Blondie and
Talking Heads stars, has died at age 75, his daughter said...
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Hilly Kristal had no idea what he was unleashing when he welcomed a rash of unknown bands onstage in his dank Bowery dive: Television, the Ramones, Blondie, Talking Heads,...
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For Avril Lavigne, the best just got better.
Avril Lavigne's The Best Damn Thing spent a second week atop the album charts, easily outselling new releases from R&B...
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Rocker Patti Smith said Friday that her concern for the hundreds of men imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay compelled her to record a song about a former detainee.
"I feel...
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Arcade Fire's "Intervention" is most
likely the only Coolest Song there will ever be that waits a
minute and a half for the drums to enter.
The Montreal-based band is...
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A group of New York musicians is
planning to do what the Beatles never did -- perform the songs
the Fab Four might have recorded as their final album had they
stayed...
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You could spend the better part of a
day listing the things Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five did
first: In the embryonic days of the New York rap scene, they
were among...
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You've heard who got into the Rock
Hall this year: R.E.M., Patti Smith, the Ronettes, Van Halen
and Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five. All good. All
deserving. I was...
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The final chords reverberated off the black, sticker-covered walls of CBGB as the grungy, iconic club toasted the end of its 33-year residence in New York. Rock poet Patti...
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In a vibrant farewell to the legendary
punk-rock venue CBGB, Blondie singer Deborah Harry played a
final show on Saturday in a tribute to the club that was a
launching pad...
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The upcoming closure of New York's
famed punk-rock club CBGB is lamented by locals as the loss of
a legendary venue; for others it symbolizes another Manhattan
neighborhood...
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Legs McNeil remembers the night back in 1975 when he walked into the dingy storefront club perched in the even dingier Bowery neighborhood. The band onstage, four guys in...
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Kanye West, Shakira, Maroon 5's Adam
Levine and Fall Out Boy lead the lineup for MTV's 14th annual
New Year's Eve broadcast, which will begin at 10:30 p.m. ET.
Common,...
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That Patti Smith has
evolved from punk pioneer to rock legend was made obvious by
the location of this 30th anniversary performance of her
groundbreaking and recently...
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Heartland rocker John Mellencamp is among the nominees for a new class of inductees at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, joined by jazz legend Miles Davis, rap pioneers...
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Apparently, 1980 just wasn't a rockin' year.
In the
way of the music world, acts that have seen 25 years elapse since the
release of their first record become eligible...
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CBGB's may be down, but if you ask its supporters the legendary New
York venue is certainly not out.
The landlord of the club
credited with spawning seminal punk rock...
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Bob Dylan's song "Like a Rolling Stone"
topped a poll on Friday to find the 100 songs, movies, TV shows
and books that "changed the world" in the opinion of...
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Bob Dylan's song "Like a Rolling Stone"
topped a poll Friday to find the 100 songs, movies, TV shows
and books that "changed the world" in the opinion of musicians,
actors...
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Punk acts young, old and reunited
have pledged their support for embattled New York club CBGB,
which is fighting to renew a soon-to-expire lease and may be
forced to close...
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Electropunk dance queens
Le Tigre kicked off their headlining U.S. tour with a
straightforward set of roller-skate jams and political
aerobo-rock Wednesday at the Avalon in...
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U.S. punk rocker Patti Smith received one of France's top cultural honors on Sunday.
Smith, 58, was presented with the insignia of Commander of the Order of the Arts and...
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Patti Smith), former Phish bassist
Mike Gordon, Huey Lewis and Mavis Staples have joined the
performance lineup for the fifth annual Jammy Awards, honoring
the best in...
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A trip to "The Red Light
District" scored Ludacris his second consecutive No. 1 album on
the U.S. pop charts Wednesday.
The Atlanta rapper/actor's fourth Disturbing Tha...
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U2, the Pretenders, Buddy Guy, Percy
Sledge, and the O'Jays will be inducted into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame at its 20th annual induction ceremony, to be held
March 14...
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Grammy-winning singer-songwriter
Alicia Keys is calling on her peers in the music industry to
raise their voices to help millions suffering from AIDS in
Africa.
"Just for...
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Robin Williams, Paul Simon and more than 50 other artists will expound on perceived threats to American freedom Monday at a Lincoln Center show to benefit the American...
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A live album New York rock band the
Strokes were planning to release this fall has been scrapped,
the group's manager told Billboard.com.
The show was taped by the BBC in...
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Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five are among the nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame — the first rap artists to get that distinction — joining U2, Randy...
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Loretta Lynn, Macy Gray and the rock group The Killers are among the 73 artists being considered for the annual Shortlist Music Prize, which honors artists whose albums were...
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Recording stars ranging from rapper
Mos Def to singer-songwriter Paul Simon are lending their
talents to an upcoming "Freedom Concert" benefit for the
American Civil...
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With military-like precision, some
of the most powerful managers and agents in the music business
have plotted a groundbreaking exercise in political activism:
the...
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Reports of the demise of Arista
Records have been premature.
The label -- which has lost many of its superstar acts to
other BMG labels in recent months as part of its...
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Guitarist Robert Quine,
one of punk rock's most daring soloists, was found dead
Saturday in his New York apartment. He was 61.
According to close friend and guitar maker...
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Former Black Crowes guitarist Rich
Robinson has wrapped his solo debut, "Paper," on which he
handles all the vocal duties for the first time in his career.
Due Aug. 24 via...
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Usher's
new confession: He can't touch Eminem.
Becoming the first new chart topper since March, the
Eminem -led rap group D12 knocked off Usher's Confessions
and took...
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Veteran rock poet Patti Smith 's next
album, "trampin'," is due in stores April 27 via Columbia, her
first for the label after spending her entire 30-year career
with Arista...
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Two seminal rock 'n' roll
veterans have left their longtime labels.
Jackson Browne has left Elektra and is talking to several
labels; Patti Smith is preparing to release...
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The quiet Beatle's voice hasn't been forgotten.
Two years after his death,
George
Harrison will become the third Beatle enshrined in the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame as a...
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Singer/songwriter Ryan Adams , whose
new album "llornkcoR" debuted at No. 33 on the latest U.S.
chart, has set a handful of December North American tour dates,
to follow his...
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Patti Smith was one of the artists in attendance at the rally in support of Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader on Friday (October 13) at Madison Square Garden...
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Beck and Patti Smith played acoustic sets on Tuesday (June 20) for an invitation-only crowd gathered on the grounds of a Hollywood Hills mansion to honor two attorneys...
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Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, and Elvis Costello are the best-known artists featured on a new Grateful Dead tribute album due out this summer.
Stolen Roses, which is slated for...
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If Clive goes, so does Patti. So said
Patti Smith, one of deposed Arista Records chief Clive Davis's crown jewels, in the wake of Davis's ouster by execs at parent company...
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In stores Tuesday (March 21) is Gung Ho, the new album from Patti Smith, which she introduced to fans with two galvanizing performances at last week's South By Southwest...
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Patti Smith, the onetime punk priestess who's now a veteran rocker of more than 25 years, was a welcome presence at this week's Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction...
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While inducting the Lovin' Spoonful into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame at the 15th annual induction ceremony, last night (March 6) in New York, John Mellencamp made...
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R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe's collaboration with Patti Smith continues as he makes several appearances on Smith's forthcoming record, Gung Ho. Her eighth album is slated...
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In spite of the fact that plans for a new R.E.M. album in the works, singer Michael Stipe and guitarist Peter Buck have been lending out their musical talents to others. ...
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Punk rock godmother Patti Smith has a special Halloween treat for her fans in the New York area. On Saturday night, Smith and her band--Lenny Kaye, J.D. Daugherty, Tony...
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After severe weather marred the first day of the Tibetan Freedom Concert, the second day of the festival went smoothly under sunny skies, with a few acts originally...
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Other nominations announced yesterday for the 40th annual Grammy Awards:
BEST FEMALE POP VOCAL PERFORMANCE:
"Butterfly" - Mariah Carey, "Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?" -...
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Late-night host David Letterman has compiled 14 live recordings of musical performances from his Late Show With David Letterman for a new album to be released on Reprise...
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