The Museum of the City Of New York just put out a compendium of the 400 most essential people in NYC's 400 year history. It's quite an inspiring list and one of the names on it is Patti Smith, someone I first met long before she had recorded anything. I was visiting NYC for the first time since having moved abroad in 1969 and she was living in a loft on 23rd Street with photographer Robert Ma...
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Patti Smith's Sundance Film festival Grand Jury "nominated documentary":http://mog.com/Mackenzie_P/blog_post/140601 will hit theaters this September. The film Patti Smith: Dream Of Life was filmed by acclaimed photographer Steven Sebring and traces Smith as a mother, poet, musician and artist.The film will screen early at New York City's at the Film Forum August 6th - 19th. In addition to the t...
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Once again, there are too many albums coming out and the only way to keep up is a link roundup. Here's a short list of new album announcements from 'round the web:Patti Smith to release album with My Bloody ValentineBonnie “Prince” Billy releasing Lie Down in the Light in MayMetallica Consider 'Doing A Radiohead' Once Record Contract EndsCansei de Ser Sexy's second studio album Donkey is due
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...I don't think there's no finer sight than a chick holding a guitar, a bass or a microphone, standing on a stage, in front of a band and belting out the tunes like she owns the place...another great thrill is switching on the tube and falling ass-backwards into the top of a sweet music documentary, you know the feeling, there's that voice-over-dub of someone who's recalling whatever scene the...
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One of my the best Doors covers, this beautiful rendition of Crystal Ship is a live version that begins with Patti Smith chastising the audience for not finding a topic to talk about. This is pure Patti Smith, never shy of controversy nor afraid of stirring up a crowd. Listen to way, in her timeless voice, she delivers Jim Morrison's lyrics is so pure and sweet like a post modern lullaby. I lov...
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Part poet, part activist, part mother, part painter, part singer ... all parts Patti Smith. The iconic New York avant-garde punk rocker is now the subject of a documentary film from aspiring director Steven Sebring. The 109 minute documentary, which bears the same title as her 1996 album Dream of Life, follows Smith intimately and shows her different passions overlapping each other to create th...
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With The Coral Sea, Patti Smith—poet, artist, rock 'n' roll legend, wave-maker, and genuine Renaissance Woman—has created yet another awe-inspiring work, in this case something very different than the rock 'n' roll of her other albums. This one, a double-disc set of live recordings, features two live performances of Smith's epic spoken word poem "The Coral Sea" (published in a book of the same
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She may be on the road, but that hasn't stopped Patti Smith from writing material for an album of original material she hopes to record soon.Smith is planning a tribute concert for her late husband, MC5 guitarist Fred "Sonic" Smith, on his birthday - Sept. 13 - in New York."It's time for me to make a record, "she told Billboard. ""I've been working on a lot of songs so I'd like to record again....
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hasn't even been mentioned yet?! Punk wars? There are a great deal of great punk rockin' women out there, but no woman has balls-out rocked so hard as Patti, IMHO (except PJ, of course. but she owes a great deal to Patti.)
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This acoustic version of Pissin' in a River by Patti Smith conjures up two distinct memories of my not so distant past. I became attached to this Patti Smith song whilst I was living in New Orleans. My life in New Orleans was like two sides of a vinyl record: one side echoes happiness the other side sings songs of joy. No other song reflected my life than Patti Smith's Pissin' in the River.When I
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This is a superb video for Patti Smith's cover of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit."Thanks to Glorious Noise (http://www.gloriousnoise.com) for hipping me to this. You folks are great!
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Check out this version of "Gimmie Shelter," off Patti Smith's upcoming album of covers, Twelve, which will be released on April 24. Smith has been a Rolling Stones fan since she was a teenager.
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1. Patti Smith, "Gloria." There were some great albums in 1975 ... everyone knows how important Born to Run was to me, and there was Blood on the Tracks, and Physical Graffiti, and a zillion others. But I don't know that any of them had the same shock effect of hearing "Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine."2. War, "Low Rider." Not many bands had as great a run in the early 70s than thi...
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