Lenny Kaye

Poetry Punk 

Patti Smith: Earth Angel

December 30, 2025December 30, 2025 Dave Steinfeld 1 Comment Blondie, Bread of Angels, Fred Sonic Smith, Ivan Kral, Jay Dee Daugherty, Lenny Kaye, Patti Smith, St. Martin’s Press, Talking Heads, Television, The Patti Smith Group, Todd Smith, Tony Shanahan

The Godmother of Punk’s new memoir is the book of a lifetime

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Punk Rock 

Patti Smith Honored on Night of Music, Poetry and Power

March 29, 2025March 29, 2025 Dave Steinfeld 0 Comments Alison Mosshart, Bruce Springsteen, Carnegie Hall, Charlie Sexton, Courtney Barnett, Flea, Johnny Depp, Lenny Kaye, Michael Stipe, Patti Smith, Tony Shanahan

Carnegie Hall comes alive in tribute to a New York City legend

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Garage Rock Psychedelics Punk Rock 

Never Enough Nuggets 

April 5, 2023April 5, 2023 James Porter 2 Comments 2023, Lenny Kaye, Nuggets, Patti Smith Group, Record Store Day, Rhino, Rhino Records, the Castaways, The Electric Prunes, The Knickerbockers, The Seeds, the Shadows of Knight, The Standells

A Record Store Day reissue brings new light to Lenny Kaye’s classic comp

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Music Journalism 

Famous Quotes Vol. 26: December 2021

December 21, 2021December 22, 2021 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments “How Do You Expect to Be Taken Seriously?”, Christina Amphlett, David Byrne, David Johansen, Divinyls, Famous Quotes, Jim Sullivan, Lenny Kaye, Neil Tennant, New York Dolls, Patti Smith Group, Pet Shop Boys, Talking Heads

Veteran rock critic Jim Sullivan looks back on a career of epic interviews in the latest installment of his inquisitive column

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Blues Music Journalism 

Looking to Get Lost, Mind Over Matter and States of Abandon

November 8, 2020November 8, 2020 Mitchell Cohen 0 Comments Andre Williams, Billy Miller, Boston After Dark, Crawdaddy!, Detroit, Dick Curless, Dion, Elvis Presley, Feel Like Going Home, Fortune Records, Howlin' Wolf, John Hammond, Lenny Kaye, Lonnie Mack, Looking To Get Lost, Lost Highway, Merle Haggard, Michael Hurtt, Mind Over Matter: The Myths and Mysteries of Detroit’s Fortune Records, Nolan Strong and the Diablos, Peter Guralnick, Robert Johnson, Rolling Stone, Sam Cooke, Sam Phillips, Sweet Soul Music, The Rolling Stones

Two insightful new books explore the joy of deep music appreciation

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Punk 

Sonny Vincent Is Back!

October 6, 2020October 6, 2020 Frédéric Quennec 0 Comments 2020, CBGB, James Brown, Lenny Kaye, Punk, Sonny Vincent, Testors

Catching up with an unsung legend of NYC punk

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adblock Music Journalism Punk 

Lenny Kaye: The Rock Critic Years

July 15, 2020June 7, 2024 Katherine Yeske Taylor 6 Comments Crawdaddy!, Lenny Kaye, Patti Smith, Paul Williams, Richard Goldstein, Richard Meltzer, Sandy Pearlman

The influential Patti Smith Group guitarist talks about his crucial work as a music scribe

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Folk Punk Rock 

IN CONCERT: Patti Has The Power

March 8, 2020March 9, 2020 Evelyn McDonnell 0 Comments Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Herbie Hancock, Jay Dee Daugherty, Lenny Kaye, Patti Smith, Patti Smith and Her Band, Patti Smith Group, People Have the Power, Power to the People, Richard Sohl, Robert Mapplethorpe, Todd Smith, Tony Shanahan, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Women's History Month

At the cusp of International Women’s Day weekend, Patti Smith and Her Band brought the Mouse House down with a fearless and inspired performance this past Friday night at Los Angeles’s Walt Disney Concert Hall

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Psychedelics Punk Records Rock 

Let’s Talk About ‘Nuggets’ with Lenny Kaye

October 24, 2019October 28, 2019 Bill Kopp 4 Comments 13th Floor Elevators, Amboy Dukes, Elektra, Jac Holzman, Lenny Kaye, Nuggets, Rhino Records, Sire Records, The Blues Magoos, The Chocolate Watchband, The Remains, The Standells, The Zombies

The Patti Smith Group guitar great looks back at the Original Artyfacts of the First Psychedelic Era

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Folk New Wave Pop Punk 

Hello & Goodbye: Patti Smith’s Wave at 40

May 29, 2019May 30, 2019 Mitchell Cohen 0 Comments 1979, 40th Anniversary, Fred Sonic Smith, Lenny Kaye, Patti Smith, Patti Smith Group, Todd Rundgren

Punk’s poet laureate released her fourth album in May of 1979; it would be her last record for nearly a decade

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