By Andrew Perry, eMusic ContributorTo celebrate the new Iggy & The Stooges album Ready To Die, we invited guitarist James Williamson to rifle through eMusic's catalog and talk us through some of his favorite albums. You can read about… more »
By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorWe've been lucky enough to have Lenny Kaye — longtime guitarist for Patti Smith and curator of the unbelievably influential Nuggets set — writing for us since 2006. Occasionally, his full-time job takes him to… more »
By Lenny Kaye, eMusic Contributor[We've been lucky enough to have Lenny Kaye — longtime guitarist for Patti Smith and curator of the unbelievably influential Nuggets set — writing for us since 2006. Occasionally, his full-time job takes him to… more »
By eMusic Artists, eMusic ContributorYou don't have to squint too hard to see the ways that being in love is a lot like being in a band. Both take patience and dedication. Both require open channels of communication. And… more »
By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorFans of Patti Smith's award-winning Just Kids memoir now have a sequel to look forward to. According to an interview with Billboard, Smith is in the planning stages for a book that's from the same… more »
By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorHey, remember when James Franco promised to make a video for R.E.M.'s final record, Collapse Into Now? Well that was more than a year and a half ago, and what do you know? Hollywood's most… more »
By eMusic Editorial Staff, eMusic ContributorSome artists just have it: the ability to lead us around by the nose. We happily let them do anything; they have passports to go anywhere, try whatever crazy idea pops into their head. Wear… more »
By Jason Diamond, eMusic ContributorApparently rust never sleeps and Neil Young never stops touring. The 66-year-old Young is hitting the road once again this autumn, and according to NME, Patti Smith is rumored to be opening. Considering Smith is interviewing… more »
By Annie Zaleski, eMusic ContributorPatti Smith's best-selling 2010 memoir Just Kids meticulously described her intimate, intricate friendship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. The narration was doubly resonant: Readers gleaned Smith's essence first through her own first-person recollections and how she… more »
By eMusic Editorial Staff, eMusic ContributorIn celebration of the career-spanning Patti Smith compilation (Outside Society) that hit stores this month, we've spotlighted seven of her classic albums, along with the audiobook version of her acclaimed memoir Just Kids. And if… more »
By Sam Adams, eMusic ContributorA singular artist in an era where female musicians were most often kept under the thumb of their bandmates or managers, Patti Smith looked and sounded like no one else - a statement as true… more »
By Sam Adams, eMusic ContributorThe cover of Twelve, featuring a tambourine decorated for her by confidante Robert Mapplethorpe, serves notice that Smith's covers album is no lark or contract-filler, but a way of paying homage to those whose music… more »
By Sam Adams, eMusic ContributorThe title of Smith's ninth album evokes her vagabond lifestyle, but it also conjures the image of a foot coming down hard, which turns out to be the more apt metaphor for its leaden political… more »
By Sam Adams, eMusic ContributorThe title and the cover photo of a uniformed soldier are enough to spark fears that Smith's eighth album takes a turn for the impersonal — only fair after two albums consumed with personal grief.… more »
By Sam Adams, eMusic ContributorComing hard on the heels of the bereavement that inspired Gone Again, Peace & Noise finds Smith still sifting through the ashes. She sounds more confident here; less shell-shocked, giving her a greater degree of… more »
By Sam Adams, eMusic ContributorOnly Smith's second album in 10 years, Gone Again was preceded by a succession of less welcome milestones: the deaths of Smith's husband Fred "Sonic" Smith, her brother Todd, longtime friend Robert Mapplethorpe and her… more »
By Sam Adams, eMusic ContributorWere it not for Patti Smith's name on the cover, fans might have flipped right past Dream of Life in the record bins, not realizing Smith had returned from her self-imposed nine-year hiatus. The woman… more »
By Sam Adams, eMusic ContributorAlthough she kept it from her band during the sessions, Smith knew going in that Wave would be her last album for a while, if not forever. Inspiration was flagging; the band had hardly any… more »
By Sam Adams, eMusic ContributorThe title of Smith's third album has more to do with her recovery from a 1977 stage accident than the resolution of the artistic tensions that plagued Radio Ethiopia, but the resurrection is just as… more »
By Sam Adams, eMusic ContributorBy the time of Patti Smith's second album — the first credited to her eponymous group rather than her alone — the tension between poetry and rock that animated Horses had been definitively resolved in… more »
By Jami Attenberg, eMusic ContributorThere is so much to admire about Patti Smith's enchanting memoir, Just Kids. It is, first and foremost, a depiction of Smith's unique relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe in their youth, starting with their love affair… more »
By Wayne Robins, eMusic ContributorHas any '60s band had such a prolific afterlife as the Doors? The Los Angeles quartet - singer Jim Morrison, keyboard player Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robbie Krieger and drummer John Densmore - broke on through… more »
