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  Punk Goes Uptown: See the Met's 'Chaos to Couture' Exhibition

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  Richard Hell Was a Patti Smith-Adoring, S&M-Enjoying Punk Pimp

  March 4, 2013 – As far as impressionistic memoirs by New York City-based poets-turned-punks go, Richard Hell's I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp has at least one promising precedent: Patti Smith's Just Kids. …
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  Garbage and Screaming Females Cover Patti Smith's 'Because the Night'

  October 12, 2012 – Garbage and Screaming Females have been having a grand old time on the road. Judging by the tightness of that headlock and the ferocious look on Shirley Manson's face, she and SF singer Marissa Paternoster have become legit homegirls.Unfortunately, the latter has come down with a case of mono and grounded the band after a final show with the '90s alt-rock giants on Wednesday night. …
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  Flea Finally Releasing 'Trippy Freakout' Solo 'Helen Burns' EP

  July 18, 2012 – The Red Hot Chili Peppers are about to unleash 18 new songs on fans, but the band's bassist Flea isn't stopping there. He announced via Twitter yesterday he's finally releasing his first-ever solo record, the one he's been talking about for literally years — and he's going to be doing it, like, now: i am putting out an ep i made by myself in a couple of days. …
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  See Patti Smith 'Banga' on 'Letterman' As Bootsy Watches

  June 13, 2012 – Patti Smith released her 11th album, Banga, last week, which we're proud to say we liked. To celebrate the new LP, she stopped by the Late Show to play the title track for David Letterman. The performance is great and belies the punk icon's 65 years, but we couldn't help but notice at the beginning of the video that freakin' Bootsy Collins is sitting in on bass with Paul Schaffer in Letterman's house band. …
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• Patti Smith, 'Banga' (Columbia)

  June 5, 2012 – Halfway through "Amerigo," the first song on Patti Smith's first album of new material in eight years, the pile-driving bass line drops away and the punk matriarch adopts an uncharacteristically gentle tone. "Hey," she murmurs dreamily over a bed of hushed strings. "Wake up. …
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  Foo Fighters' Taylor Hawkins Will Play Iggy Pop in CBGB Film

  June 5, 2012 – It looks like the producers of the upcoming CBGB movie are charging ahead in spite of the controversy brewing between the filmmakers and members of deceased club owner Hilly Kristal's family. A new batch of actors have been announced for the movie tracking the history of one of New York City's most iconic spots, which has already confirmed Alan Rickman in the lead role as Kristal. …
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  Patti Smith on When to Break Rules and Nap on Logs

  May 24, 2012 – 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 Michigan with her husband, MC5's Fred "Sonic" Smith, for a quiet, 15-year stretch of family time. "I'm not career bent," she says. …
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  Bowie, Patti Smith, Vedder Give It Up for Moms on New Charity Compilation

  March 8, 2012 – Every Mother Counts, an advocacy and awareness campaign headed by model-turned-activist Christy Turlington Burns to increase education and support for maternal and child health, is slated to release its second charity compilation album May 1, and as Antiquiet points out, its track list is not to be messed with. Thirteen of the 19 songs are unreleased tunes from artists like Patti Smith, Coldplay, Eddie Vedder, Cedella Marley, and Beck. …
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  Patti Smith Pays Tribute to Amy Winehouse on Next Album

  January 4, 2012 – Punk rock's poet laureate is honoring the memory of retro-soul's self-destructive queen. Patti Smith has written a song about Amy Winehouse, to appear on Smith's next album, Uncut reports. Smith is quoted as saying she built the song around a poem she composed about the London-based singer after her death last summer at age 27. "The little song for Amy just blossomed in the studio," Smith told Uncut. …
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