AP - Mar 28, 2008
A rocker, poet and activist, Patti Smith is already a Renaissance woman. With her first major solo exhibit of drawings and photographs opening in Paris this week, she earns the title of visual artist,...
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Punk poet Patti Smith and Split Enz veteran Tim Finn lead the lineup of musicians performing at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah (January 17-27). Along with such artists as Gavin DeGraw,...
More »Reuters - Aug 29, 2007
Hilly Kristal, the founder of New York punk rock club CBGB, which helped make the Ramones, Blondie and Talking Heads stars, has died at age 75, his daughter said on Wednesday. Kristal died on Tuesday...
More »Reuters - Aug 29, 2007
(Corrects to Living Colour from Living Color in paragraph 4, and to Marky Ramone from Mark Ramone, paragraph 6) NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hilly Kristal, the founder of New York punk rock club CBGB, which...
More »AP - Aug 29, 2007
Hilly Kristal had no idea what he was unleashing when he welcomed a rash of unknown bands onstage in his dank Bowery dive: Television, the Ramones, Blondie, Talking Heads, the Patti Smith Group. Kristal...
More »E! Online - May 2, 2007
For Avril Lavigne, the best just got better. Avril Lavigne's The Best Damn Thing spent a second week atop the album charts, easily outselling new releases from R&B singer Joe and Brit buzz band...
More »AP - Apr 13, 2007
Rocker Patti Smith said Friday that her concern for the hundreds of men imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay compelled her to record a song about a former detainee. I feel responsible as an American citizen...
More »Reuters - Mar 18, 2007
Arcade Fire's Intervention is most likely the only Coolest Song there will ever be that waits a minute and a half for the drums to enter. The Montreal-based band is part of the new indie mainstream...
More »Reuters - Mar 10, 2007
A group of New York musicians is planning to do what the Beatles never did -- perform the songs the Fab Four might have recorded as their final album had they stayed together just a little longer. The...
More »Reuters - Mar 9, 2007
You could spend the better part of a day listing the things Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five did first: In the embryonic days of the New York rap scene, they were among its first superstars, they...
More »Reuters - Jan 12, 2007
You ve heard who got into the Rock Hall this year: R.E.M., Patti Smith, the Ronettes, Van Halen and Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five. All good. All deserving. I was hoping it would be the Patti Smith...
More »AP - Oct 16, 2006
The final chords reverberated off the black, sticker-covered walls of CBGB as the grungy, iconic club toasted the end of its 33-year residence in New York. Rock poet Patti Smith headlined the Sunday night...
More »Reuters - Oct 15, 2006
In a vibrant farewell to the legendary punk-rock venue CBGB, Blondie singer Deborah Harry played a final show on Saturday in a tribute to the club that was a launching pad for her career, but is due to...
More »Reuters - Oct 13, 2006
The upcoming closure of New York s famed punk-rock club CBGB is lamented by locals as the loss of a legendary venue; for others it symbolizes another Manhattan neighborhood becoming corporate and bland...
More »AP - Oct 9, 2006
Legs McNeil remembers the night back in 1975 when he walked into the dingy storefront club perched in the even dingier Bowery neighborhood. The band onstage, four guys in leather jackets and torn jeans...
More »Reuters - Dec 12, 2005
Kanye West, Shakira, Maroon 5 s Adam Levine and Fall Out Boy lead the lineup for MTV s 14th annual New Year s Eve broadcast, which will begin at 10:30 p.m. ET. Common, All-American Rejects and Young...
More »Reuters - Dec 1, 2005
That Patti Smith has evolved from punk pioneer to rock legend was made obvious by the location of this 30th anniversary performance of her groundbreaking and recently re-released album Horses. Rather...
More »AP - Sep 20, 2005
Heartland rocker John Mellencamp is among the nominees for a new class of inductees at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, joined by jazz legend Miles Davis, rap pioneers Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five...
More »E! Online - Sep 16, 2005
Apparently, 1980 just wasn t a rockin year. In the way of the music world, acts that have seen 25 years elapse since the release of their first record become eligible to be inducted into the Rock...
More »E! Online - Sep 1, 2005
CBGB s may be down, but if you ask its supporters the legendary New York venue is certainly not out. The landlord of the club credited with spawning seminal punk rock acts such as The Ramones, Talking...
More »Reuters - Aug 5, 2005
Bob Dylan s song Like a Rolling Stone topped a poll on Friday to find the 100 songs, movies, TV shows and books that changed the world in the opinion of musicians, actors and industry experts. Dylan...
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