Guardian Music — Discover Ireland's best kept musical secret. Plus, our albums of the year, Grammy nominations, and a Laura Marling interviewOn guardian.co.uk/music this weekThe best albums of 2011: 50-11Next week we'll be counting down our top 10 albums of the year.... more info

Guardian Music — A cover of a 60s staple helped set in motion a musical revolution in mid-70s New York"Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine …" The first line of Gloria, the first song on what was Patti Smith's first album.Smith was a virtual unknown in the ... more info

Gigwise — Full tracklist revealed... more info

Guardian Music — Half of the world's most famous musical pairing of albino brothers produces a storming piece of funkThere was a time when, if you spent most of your life inside a Smiths T-shirt, liking funk and soul stood alongside wearing stonewashed jeans as socia... more info

Guardian Music — King's College, LondonBy the time the Ting Tings' new album appears in February, it will be nearly four years since their chart-topping debut, We Started Nothing, a gap that has given us all ample time to forget all about them. During those years, th... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Festival Hall, LondonOrnette Coleman's visits to these shores have always been remarkable events, featuring collaborations with bagpipers, rappers, opera singers, orchestras and – at 2009's Meltdown festival – Patti Smith, Flea and the Root... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Patti Smith at Escape to NY in August (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin) Like she did last year and many years before that, Patti Smith and her band will ring in the new year in her hometown of NYC over... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Seventeen artists including Jackson Browne, Patti Smith and blues legend Taj Mahal gathered together in New York, N.Y. on Nov. 12, 2010 to pay tribute to John Lennon. The former Beatles frontman’s catalog was dissected from the early years all the... more info

Perez Hilton — Snow Patrol has covered U2's Mysterious Ways for the upcoming 20th anniversary of Achtung Baby! The album has been re-recorded with a special CD that contains covers of all the songs by incredible artists. Like who? Like: Nine Inch Nails, Patti Smit... more info

NME — Sting, Patti Smith and My Morning Jacket will also feature on new compilation more info