Patti Smith News

 
Patti Smith photos at DIA
Royal Oak Daily Tribune
By Joseph Szczesny Patti Smith is one of those people famous for being famous for more than the standard 15 minutes. But Smith, 66, who also spent a significant part of her life in Detroit — for most of the 1980s she lived in St. Clair Shores with her ...
Rock's wild flowerThe Australian

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Houston Chronicle (blog)
Patti Smith blames crew for stage plunge
Houston Chronicle (blog)
Punk icon Patti Smith blames stage-hands for the infamous 1977 accident which left her in traction with a broken back, insisting they failed to leave enough room for her to perform. The singer took a tumble and plunged 15 feet into the orchestra pit ...

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What Patti Smith and Neil Young won't be doing at BEA
Los Angeles Times
The nation's biggest publishing conference, Book Expo America, announced Monday that it had scored a rock 'n' roll coup: On its second day, Patti Smith will interview Neil Young on stage. That's far more rock power than the annual conference, ...

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The List
PUNK PRODIGY Patti Smith's rings in her 11th album with energized lyrics and ...
Entertainment Weekly
So perhaps it makes sense that Smith's 11th album is her most energized in years, if not decades. Relieved of the protest poetry of 2004's enjoyable but politically burdened Trampin', Banga feels like both a return to form and a renewal — with Lenny ...
Unique album of punk poetry populated by rocky arias, improvised psalms and ...The List

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City Slang: Patti Smith to perform at Detroit Film Theater
Detroit Metro Times (blog)
By Brett Callwood On June 1, Patti Smith will perform live in the Detroit Film Theater with son, and in-demand guitar hero, Jackson Smith on guitar and daughter Jesse Smith on piano. Also joining Smith will be Detroit-based players James Simonson ...


 
GalleristNY
Because the Spring Benefit Belongs to Patti Smith: Rocker Performs Unplugged ...
GalleristNY
By Michael H. Miller 5/22 2:14pm Patti Smith finished playing “My Blakean Year,” the fist song in an hour-long set with her daughter Jesse accompanying her on grand piano at the Noguchi Museum's spring benefit last week. She was now staring intently at ...

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Patti Smith, Wanda Jackson, Julieta Venegas in the Guggenheim Museum
EITB
Patti Smith, Wanda Jackson, Julieta Venegas and several female artists more will be playing in the atrium of the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum as part of concert series between July 3rd and November 13th under the name of 'Women's Nights'.