Patti Smith

Controversial from the start, the song ends side 2 of Patti Smith Group’s 1978 album ‘Easter‘.

Patti Smith‘s ‘A Book of Days‘ was inspired by her Instagram, and features 365 photos taken throughout a single year.

Patti Smith will close out the year, and celebrate her 76th birthday, in NYC in December.

The Birth of Punk is at free pop-up exhibit at 25 Fulton at The Seaport that runs through the end of August…

CREEM magazine — the storied, rebellious rock n’ roll rag that ran from 1969 to 1989 — is being relaunched as a quarterly print mag, and they’ve put every original issue online to read.

Jim Jarmusch, Wim Wenders, Noel Fielding, Bobby Gillespie and more also contributed to this new version of Bob Dylan’s iconic sequence from D.A. Pennebaker’s ‘Don’t Look Back‘

Patti Smith will be on the road this spring and summer with shows in the US and Europe, and she’s announced a couple of new dates in the NYC area…

Austin band Good Looks just released their debut album and are also on tour this month. Their inspirations list includes Willie Nelson, Conor Oberst, Gillian Welch, Patti Smith, and more.

The all-star benefit show, hosted by Gogol Bordello and Eugene Hutz, raised $130,000 for the Come Back Alive Foundation, which supports the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Also performing: Craig Finn & Franz Nicolay of The Hold Steady, Matisyahu, Suzanne Vega, Jesse Malin, Lady Lamb, O.A.R.’s Marc Roberge, and more.