Gawker (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
[Defiled rockabilly Pete Doherty leaving a Somerset courthouse today; image via Splash]
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
in post In Which Why You Wanna Go And Do That Love Huh from This Recording .
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
in post In Which We Discuss The Pressing Problem of the Masses from This Recording .
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
in post In Which We Discuss The Pressing Problem of the Masses from This Recording .
DATA news (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
The singer talks about why she doesn’t like labels, the trouble with split ends and what she learned about laundry from her mother.
Pitchfork (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
The new album from Patti Smith (that's good!) is two discs long (that's bad), and it's a collaboration with My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields (that's good!!) built around live performances of her 1996 book-length poem (that's ba...actually it turns out to be pretty good). read more
Sucka Pants (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
(Team Robespierre at McCarren Pool) One of the main reasons why I can't wait till the NYPD has tasers . MP3: Patti Smith covers Nirvana. . . with some poetry thrown in for good measure. Hmmmmmm. • Patti Smith - Smells Like Teen Spirit A band's place in myspace .
Left I on the News (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Readers know that Patti Smith is perhaps my favorite artist , even if she is supporting Barack Obama in this election. ;-) Her most recent album, Twelve , is still in frequent rotation on my iPod. Yesterday (hat tip Cursor ), I learned she had recently played in Beirut, and played a 2006 song of hers I hadn't heard before, Qana , about one of many Israeli massacres of the people of Lebanon....
