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Lenny Kaye: The Rock Critic Years

July 15, 2020July 17, 2020 Katherine Yeske Taylor 1 Comment 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

Music Journalism

Famous Quotes Vol. 8: June 2020

June 8, 2020June 8, 2020 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Bikini Kill, CHEAP TRICK, David Johansen, Famous Quotes, Gene Simmons, Geri Halliwell, Ginger Spice, Jack Douglas, Jesus Mezquia, Joan Jett, John Lennon, Kathleen Hanna, Kiss, Lou Reed, Mia Zapata, New York Dolls, Patti Smith, The Gits, The Spice Girls

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

Records Retail

Amoeba Music: America’s Biggest Independent Record Store Faces the Future

May 6, 2020May 6, 2020 j. poet 0 Comments Amoeba Gig, Amoeba Music, Berkeley, Black Flag, Bobby Womack, California, Los Angeles, Marc Weinstein, Patti Smith, Paul McCartney, record stores, Records, San Francisco, Solomon Burke, Thelma Houston, Todd Rundgren

As the embattled California chain loses its Hollywood hub, its important to remember how important this mecca is to music fans

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

Music Journalism

Famous Quotes Vol. 3: January 2020

January 13, 2020January 14, 2020 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments Dave Vanian, David Byrne, My Generation, Patti Smith, Ray Davies, Rick Danko, Talking Heads, The Damned, The Kinks, The Who

Jim Sullivan looks back on a career of epic interviews in the third installment of his inquisitive column

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

Glam Rock

IN CONCERT: Mott Still Gott the Hoople

April 6, 2019April 12, 2019 Chloe Orwell 7 Comments ARIEL BENDER, Chicago Theatre, David Bowie, Dudley Moore, Floyd Cramer, Glenn Gould, Ian Hunter, James Mastro, Mick Ronson, Morgan Fisher, Mose Allison, Mott the Hoople, Mott the Hoople 74, Nina Simone, Patti Smith, Peter Cook, Ray Davies

Ian Hunter and the gang make us all remember the Saturday Gigs