Patti Smith reflects on her return to Detroit

Source: The Oakland Press

FILE â U.S. singer and artist Patti Smith and her son, Jackson Frederick Smith, attend a press conference ahead of the opening of "Land 250", a major solo exhibition of the visual work of Patti Smith, Thursday, March 27, ...
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DIA exhibit an intimate view of punk poet Patti Smith's world

Source: The Oakland Press

Patti Smith is one of those people famous for being famous for more than the standard 15 minutes. But Smith, 66, who also spent a significant part of her life in Detroit — for most of the 1980s she lived in St. Clair Shores with her late husband, ...
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Patti Smith on When to Break Rules and Nap on Logs

Source: Spin

Since the early 1970s, punk godmother Patti Smith has served as the guardian of an idiosyncratic — and meandering — brand of artistry. After releasing four critically acclaimed albums (including her seminal 1975 debut, Horses), Patti Smith headed to ...
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[Q&A] Ross The Boss talks Manitoba, Dictators, Manowar and his quest for the hardest, the heaviest, the fastest, the slowest and the most epic music imaginable

Source: The Phoenix

I caught up with Ross by phone as he sat in his studio in New York, gearing up for a tour with his new band MANITOBA that hits Church this Thursday. Manitoba isn't quite the Dictators-- it features Ross and Dictators frontman Handsome Dick Manitoba (and ...
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The Lennon and McCartney of Drug Rock

Source: The Stranger

Jason Pierce and Pete Kember were insatiable druggies who were fucked up inside. Together in British psych-rock group Spacemen 3, they made some of the greatest rock of the 20th century. The reverberations from Spac ...
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Saint Etienne - Words And Music By Saint Etienne

Source: The Quietus

Emerging at the dawn of the 1990s, when everyone else was starting to find inspiration in their record collections, Saint Etienne seemed like a very sane escape. While the louder groups banged on about Can, Big Star, Skip Spence or the MC5, Pete Wiggs, ...
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The view from after the counter culture

Source: Irish Times

The Irish Times - Tuesday, May 22, 2012 Howard Marks and John Sinclair are on tour, from Sunday to June 2nd. See howardmarks.name for details ‘I’M A 21st-century man,” declares John Sinclair, poet, political activist and one- ...
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Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello on Social Justice

Source: The Good Men Project

Photo Tom Matlack during concert at Berkeley School of Music Below is the interview that Tom Morell gave this week on Bill Moyer’s show. Here’s the piece I did back in 2009 when I spent a few days with Morello during his “One Man Revolution”: ...
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