ContactMusic — Punk icon PATTI SMITH's literary skills have again landed her book world honours - she'll be among the top writers competing for this year's (11) coveted Los Angeles Times Book Prize.The Because The Night rocker, social critic Christopher Hitchens an... more info

KEXP Seattle — Greetings, Michele Myers here, producer of KEXP Documentaries. Our current series, “Poets & Music” explores the interplay between the beat and the word with profiles on poets who record with music like William S Burroughs, Saul Williams, Gil Scot... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Les Savy Fav @ Knitting Factory in 2009 (more by Tim Griffin) today in NYC * Tune-In Music Festival * John Oswald @ The Stone * Paul Muldoon @ The Stone * Patti Smith @ 92nd Street Y * Mandingo... more info

NME — Items from Patti Smith, Chrissie Hynde and Madonna also in exhibition more info

Altsounds — Blue Oyster Cult. Rocket From the Tombs. The Patti Smith Group. Great things can happen when there is a rock critic in the band. In that case, logic suggests that if one rock critic is good, then more than one is even better! Take Toronto, Canada-ba... more info

Altsounds — Blue Oyster Cult. Rocket From the Tombs. The Patti Smith Group. Great things can happen when there is a rock critic in the band. In that case, logic suggests that if one rock critic is good, then more than one is even better! Take Toronto, C... more info

NME - The Video Blog — R.E.M. are back in a month (March 7th) with their fifteenth studio album 'Collapse Into Now', a Jacknife Lee-produced effort that was recorded in Berlin, Nashville and New Orleans. It's a collaborator-packed affair, with Eddie Vedder, Peaches, Patti ... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Any Major Dude said... TV THEMES: BIG BANG THEORY Theme from The Big Bang Theory Barenaked Ladies – Big Bang Theory (full version) Barenaked Ladies – You Can Be My Yoko Ono The Big Bang Theory – Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock (dialogue clip) ... more info

Guardian Music — An MA in the Beatles? Pfft! We're all PhDs in the Velvet Underground here on guardian.co.uk/music. In other news ... Kele and Patti Smith are writing books, one of which is 'erotic'Five things we learned from this week's music news•There are univer... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — The Guardian reports that Patti Smith is currently writing a detective novel. Fight Club: The Musical. The Prague Post profiles Sleigh Bells. Treats couldn't be more apt a name for Sleigh Bells' album, with the pair serving up 11 short,... more info