When King was on and bearing down on his blues, it was like he was taking a sledgehammer to the heart. And when he got the job done with a trembling lead run, King would often throw his head back and start shouting. That's when his audience knew he'd put it all the way in the alley.
Patti Smith has evolved from angry young punk poetess with a penchant for incredible adaptations of her words to music to a brilliant observer of life with the same ability to convert words and meaning to strong and important music collected in her infrequent albums.
Patti Smith and the Kronos Quartet have both received the coveted Polar Music Award in a ceremony in Stockholm yesterday. The prizes were bestowed by Sweden’s King Carl XVI in a glamorous procession, fit for royalty, according to Associated...
Marcia Ball, Roadside Attractions. If anyone knows what's out there on the those long American highways it's this woman. She hit the Austin music scene running in 1970 and has not stopped since. For the first half-dozen years she was...
National Book Award-winning punk high priestess Patti Smith is set to adapt her New York Times bestseller Just Kids into a screenplay with the help of award-winning screenwriter John Logan.
While it’s a little early to be thinking about Christmas, this is something you might want to save for. Sony Legacy is releasing a box set titled 15 Minutes: Homage To Andy Warhol, to coincide with what would be...
Billy Corgan got up this morning and warned fans that he was going to write up a blog post about his progress on the Smashing Pumpkins' forthcoming opus Oceania today.
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